Barred Rock+White Rock

[chickenman98]

Just wondering what a barred rock crossed with a white rock would look like.

 

[Mahonri]

If the white isn't dominant, it will be barred. If the white is dominant, it should be white.

I'm guessing....

 

[chickenman98]

so it will look like either one, and not a mixed breed?

 

[RAREROO]

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If the White rocks are Dominant White, though it's not likely, most if now all White Rocks are recessive white and usually masking barring. But if it were dom White. the chicks would be white but with black spots on them so they wouldn't really look like pure white rocks.

In the more likely case that they are recessive white. If you breed a BR roo on the white Rock hens, you should get all barred chicks. If the WR hen is masking a color like black, instead of barring, the the roos from that cross would be het. barred ( dark like BR hens)

With the WR roo on the BR hens I'm thinking he would probably be masking het barring, so that would give all barred roos and half barred and half non barred hens.

But if he were possible masking homo barred, then all the chicks would be barred

And if he were masking a non barred color like Black, the the chicks would be sexlinks with the roos being barred and the hens being black.

So basicly those are some possible variables, but anytime you're crossing with White rocks and other recessive white breeds, when you don't know if the have the silver genes or what color they are masking, there's really not definitive answer until you just try it and see what you get.

 

[chickenman98]

Oh, I thought it might look somthing like a deleware. what breeds made delewares?

 

[RAREROO]

I read somewhere that they came up as sports from crossing Barred Rocks and New Hampshire reds back when this was a popular meat cross before these moderized comercial broilers took over.

 

[chickenman98]

Ok, Thanks