This only works with a barred hen under a solid rooster. If the rooster is barred, all his offspring will be barred to some degree or another, thus they will all have white head spots. The barring won't be linked to their gender at all. The roo gives a barred gene to all offspring, the hen only gives a barred gene to her male offspring.
I am curious about that too. I have kept 3 of the chicks I hatched and these three all look different from one another. One of them looks like the father (barred rock) and the others totally different from a Barred Rock or a Rhode Island/Production Red. In fact one of them turned out looking like one of my Easter Eggers. I know I didn't put any greenish-blue eggs in the incubator. I will post a better picture later today but this one is off my phone and from a week and a half ago. They are almost 2 months old as of now.thanks for info. i am not really concerned about the sex of the chicks as much as i am curious as to why some of the chicks are black with barring and the rest are turning all white. I just thought that was interesting to hatch two completely different colored chicks from same parents. 3 are barred and 6 are white.
that is unusual. We hatched out 10 total babies from a BR X RIR and they all looked exactly like your kellog Jr. You sure there isn't another roo or mamma in the mix?These are my three Barred Rock Rooster/ Rhode Island Red Hen mix chicks. They are 5 weeks old now and fully feathered. They all ended up looking totaly different. One even looks like my easter eggers, which I am still trying to figure out how that happened.
This is Ἴκαρος (Icarus)
This is Spicy Tutsie
This is Kellogg Jr.
Absolutely, I kept everyone in separate fenced off areas and separate coops. The Rooster was in with the Rhode Island Red Hens. He was cut off from my younger girls. I didn't want them to mate at that time. I hatched out 10 total but gave the other 7 to a friend of mine. They are a mix of the same colors I have with the three I kept. It is very odd.
