barred easter egger?

[jerryse]

Here is a pic of a cuckoo cockerel.I hope his light color indicates he has 2 copies of the barring gene.He is from cuckoo hen and a cuckoo rooster with 1 baring gene.Parents have spotted legs but I get slate legs on occasion.This one is slate on the dermis.The previous post I had of barred seem to be slate on the epidermis.Hopeing to get around the problem of barring making the legs spotted.

 

[jerryse]

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Here is a pic of a cuckoo cockerel.I hope his light color indicates he has 2 copies of the barring gene.He is from cuckoo hen and a cuckoo rooster with 1 baring gene.Parents have spotted legs but I get slate legs on occasion.This one is slate on the dermis.The previous post I had of barred seem to be slate on the epidermis.Hopeing to get around the problem of barring making the legs spotted.

 

[Hezz]

I would guess around 6 months.It can vary a lot.

OK thanks Jerry! I guess I have a few months to wait then.

 

[Caitlin7898]

The black and white one sorta looks like a dominique! I have 22 chickens. And two of them are dominiques and look like that!

 

[Popcorn]

This is actually a project I am working on. I have a year old barred rock rooster and am going to cross him to a blue EE as soon as she is old enough to breed. Hopefully I get barred girls and blue boys. This will be my first breeding attempt.

 

[speckledhen]

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No, that is incorrect, Popcorn, you will get barred males, too. BR males pass barring to all their chicks. I've done that cross many times. All chicks have barring, both males and females. I had two blue Ameraucana hens and hatched many chicks from the BR rooster with them, all barred.


Here are a cockerel (Left) and pullet from that cross. In fact, the pullet is my sweet Riley, who died recently at the age of 3:

 

[nicalandia]

No, that is incorrect, Popcorn, you will get barred males, too. BR males pass barring to all their chicks. I've done that cross many times. All chicks have barring, both males and females. I had two blue Ameraucana hens and hatched many chicks from the BR rooster with them, all barred.


Here are a cockerel (Left) and pullet from that cross. In fact, the pullet is my sweet Riley, who died recently at the age of 3:

that´s right...

 

[nicalandia]

Here is a pic of a barred cockerel.Slate legs even.

Awesome... keep us posted on your findings....

 

[mstricer]

I am going to try to

post a pic of a lav cuckoo EE.

OMGoodness that is one gorgeous bird.

I am so glad I saw it. I have one BR pullet and a group of Lavender Ameraucana. My thought was to throw her in with them and hatch all her eggs this winter, when she starts laying. Will give me a winter project.

Will it work the same if it is a BR hen with the Lavender Ameraucana. I just figured I continue to bred all barred chicks back to a blue layer. Then boys back to the BR hen, to get the second Barred gene. Right?

 

[jerryse]

It will work.As a plus the lavender cuckoo or barred will not have leg color issues.Not sure why.Welcome to the project.