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I just put up a sale for my BBS Plymouth rock chicks if anyone is interested. About half of them are Blue Barred!. I was confused at first about the genetics, thought I would get all barred chicks from the barred roo over blue hens. But, because he has only a single barring gene, I got blue, black, and blue barred. I could have got black barred as well, but it looks like I didn't. Not sex linked. Question - one of the blue barred has a much bigger head spot than the others - does this mean anything?
 
AmCanyonStables, sorry that I didn't respond before, my brooders are already brimming with Sumatra and Orpington chicks, I'm going to have to pass this time on the Blue Barred Rocks. I hope you find homes for your babies though!

The head spot is supposedly an indicator of gender in Barred Rocks, the bigger and whiter the head spot= cockerel. Little or no head spot= pullet. I don't think it's completely exact though.
 
OH blue barred??? OMG I need to stop. Maybe??????


Jeremy I'm not sure which ones are doing it. I tried separating them and they stopped laying. I do have more projects for purple that I'm working on, but I was thrilled to see these eggs after not to long. I hope my next tries lock in my lavender and the layers I developed will hopefully lay a darker purple. This is what I told my husband and my mother I wanted to do, so they were my cheering squad. Sunday would have been my mom's birthday and the Lav eggs have just started developing, so it was my grand opening of them. The 3 I have that are either lav or plum I set on Sunday. Kind of wish I had blown one out to save, but wasn't thinking about it at the time. I've gotten some more of the kind of taupe and gray they started out like, so I'm sure I have at least 2 and maybe 3 that are going to be laying them. I'm also trying to get rose and mauve. They're getting there. Now to get back to #8 FBCM eggs and I'll be a happy camper.
 
So excited I traded some jubilee and mille fleur chicks and this cool guy sent me the below(hopefully arriving tomorrow) This is his email to me this am, very cool - all the dwarfs are going to my best friend Chooklet/Dyann as she's breeding them


I shipped you all older ones... isbar around 8 to 10, around 8+ Olandsk dwarfs, I thinks 5 or 6 cream legbar pullets + 2 Roos and 8 to 12 birchen marans I'm sorry I got to be so many I lost exact count

Oh dear does that mean I will fall in love with the Isbars or Legbars and have to breed them...I need MORE SPACE NOW!!!
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You can bring some of those marans out to my house.....I'll babysit for you.


cherylcohen said:
So excited I traded some jubilee and mille fleur chicks and this cool guy sent me the below(hopefully arriving tomorrow) This is his email to me this am, very cool - all the dwarfs are going to my best friend Chooklet/Dyann as she's breeding them


I shipped you all older ones... isbar around 8 to 10, around 8+ Olandsk dwarfs, I thinks 5 or 6 cream legbar pullets + 2 Roos and 8 to 12 birchen marans I'm sorry I got to be so many I lost exact count

Oh dear does that mean I will fall in love with the Isbars or Legbars and have to breed them...I need MORE SPACE NOW!!!
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It finally stopped raining here so I took the opportunity to take a few pictures. My Choc babies are over a week old now, they're feathering in and are starting to look ugly.
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I still love them though!

The Chocolate.





Look at that little comb already growing, please let it be a boy!
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The Black chick, if it's a cockerel it will be split to Chocolate.



This one's comb seems to be a bit bigger too... and kind of pink. I also see wattles!!! Do y'all see it?

 

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