Blue Plymouth Rock roo x barred rock hen

[Doublete]

I didn't think about that, what is a Blue Plymouth? I assumed a solid blue bird, but that would be a Blue Rock. Are your Blue birds barred?

Andalusian male x Plymouth barred rock female (from freedom ranger hatchery)

 

[Doublete]

Mine are still young and I don’t know what they’ll look like as adults... they’re 4 weeks and I’m assuming they’ll be true to those photos...

 

[Doublete]

Interested to see what she feathers out to... this was back around Easter and now she’s a light lavender type color

 

[The Moonshiner]

Those are what Hoover's hatchery are calling sapphire gems.
They are far from Plymouth rocks and if that hatchery has the genetics as screwed up as Hoover's its hard telling what you'll end up with.
Males should be single barred but theirs some here that have gotten solid blue males.

 

[Doublete]

Those are what Hoover's hatchery are calling sapphire gems.
They are far from Plymouth rocks and if that hatchery has the genetics as screwed up as Hoover's its hard telling what you'll end up with.
Males should be single barred but theirs some here that have gotten solid blue males.

Oh great.
Any way to try to breed for the barring by only using the two cockerels that I knew from day 1 if any others surface? So far all others appear to be pullets...

 

[The Moonshiner]

To get sex able at hatch chicks it has to be a male without barring and only hens with barring.
Those barred cockerels bred with barred hens will give you about half the pullets to be sexed but the other half will look like the males.

 

[Doublete]

Ok so my males need to feather out without barring...
that’s something freedom ranger doesn’t say
Makes it a little harder to reproduce what you’ve bought huh?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Oh great.
Any way to try to breed for the barring by only using the two cockerels that I knew from day 1 if any others surface? So far all others appear to be pullets...

Since the male is split for barring forget everything i said about sex links. It won't happen with your cross. Oh, with Andalusians it is the B/B/S gene, not Lavender.

I'm not sure what you mean by "breed for the barring" or "makes it a little harder to reproduce what you’ve bought". What are you trying to achieve? What is your goal? Are you trying to make sex links? Do you want an all barred flock? Something else? Do you want to keep the blue?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Ok so my males need to feather out without barring...
that’s something freedom ranger doesn’t say
Makes it a little harder to reproduce what you’ve bought huh?

What you bought should be sex links.
Sex links never reproduce more sex links like themselves.
What you can do is breed those together without the barred rocks in the mix.
You will get about half barred males and half non barred males. You will also get blue, black and splash.
Pick a non barred blue male and breed him to barred rocks next year. That'll give you blue and black sex links.

 

[Doublete]

I think I failed genetics
I just am trying to figure out if I can create anything with my two barred rocks...
but sounds like my blue Plymouth rocks won’t hatch the same thing because I need an Andalusian and a barred Plymouth to create them
If I use one of my blue Plymouth Rock roo... with what? So basically my blue Plymouth flock is good for egg laying and meat... not reproducing