Buff Barred Rock? Seriously?

[Kev]

that's an EE and it's a totally different kind of barring. your hen has autosomal type of barring(aka pencilling in the hobby), barred rocks have sex linked barring. The 'bars' on your hen look light only because she's splash. If she was blue the bars would be bluer and if she didn't have blue at all she would be brown and black pencilled.

I have one but in real life you can really see the stripes. she might be a cross though because she has a muff. she is so soft

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[Phage]

Last year we crossed a cream brabanter hen with a cream legbar roo and the offspring have grey barring on a light buff background. Is that what you mean?

 

[Kev]

Legbars have sex linked barring, so what you're seeing should be the same kind of barring as on legbars.

Funny thing is, this kind of barring is clearest on a solid black chicken. On other colors/patterns it's often 'not perfect' to very varying degrees.

Autosomal barring is not sex linked and is due to completely different/unrelated genes. You could say those genes arrange pigments of the feather into colored and black zones(sex linked barring creates white bars by temporarily interrupting pigment deposition into the feather). best breed examples are campines like this:


note campines also come in silver which replaces the gold to silver, which can look like 'white barring'. These are still autosomal barring.

 

[Cbell1536]

Buff and barred rock roo.
Buff and Barred rock hen.


Another Buff and barred hen.

 

[Geneticsnut]

Is this what y'all are looking for?

 

[yooper coop]

I've got six barred rocks and seven buffs coming wed. Prob. Have a roo mixed in somewhere. Next year I'll send in a pic maybe. Lol

 

[Chrysolinsbirds]

I accidentally made a buff barred rock and he's gorgeous =) see if I can find a picture.

 

[Chrysolinsbirds]

 

[rocks3flowers]

I would love to see more pics. they are beautiful.