Can a barred rock rooster have an unbarred offspring?

[kathyinmo]

An example that may (or may not) interest you. These 2 (barred) F1s (first 2 pictures) produce the following:
[FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif][FONT=Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif]Barred ;Black; Delaware; Split gold/silver; Buff Columbian; Barred Buff Columbian & Silver Columbian[/FONT][/FONT]. The reason is because their parents are Barred Rock males x New Hampshire females. Simply, like yours, they are not "pure," barred birds.

F2s............

 

[Kev]

the two white genes are completely separate, nothing to do with each other. rw is always rw, dw is always dw. like a white jeep remains a jeep even if you get a white porsche and have both at same time. they are a jeep and a porsche even if they are the same color visually.. the machinery is different.

yes exactly, a rw chick had parents with the rw gene. it will always be rw. rw bred to rw always 100% rw, so a white silkie bred to white silkie will always produce all white silkies. no other color at all.

all white silkies are recessive white.. because rw does not interfere with skin pigmentation. dw does, and it is very hard to keep black skin on birds with dw because it blocks pigment in both feathers and skin. (understand, this is omitting the paint silkies.. not sure if anybody has figured their genetics yet & they are very new)

the term 'recessive' you can sort of think of it being 'weak' and have to be in 'pure form to show up visually'.

as for 'dominant' think of it as 'strong, shows up visually in crosses'.

for example:

rw bred to black chicken- all black chicks. (this white is "weak")

dw bred to black chicken- all white chicks. (its dominant personality says 'i am here!') your chick is an example of this.

 

[aoxa]

The chick is now 4 weeks old and is not quite white, but a dirty white..

She/he feathered out so much faster. This picture is at 3 weeks old.

This is 4 weeks. I hatched one more like it since. If they are pullets, I wonder how they will lay?

Not even a yellow - just a white chick.

On a side note... My Delaware x Barred rock have the best barring of the mixes.. I wonder why?

 

[Chris09]

How are you guy's getting a Sex-link out of a Gold/ Dominate White cross?
You need Gold [G] + Sex-Link Silver to create a Sex-link.

Chris

 

[aoxa]

How are you guy's getting a Sex-link out of a Gold/ Dominate White cross?
You need Gold [G] + Sex-Link Silver to create a Sex-link. 

Chris

No it's not a sex link chick, the mother is a RSL

 

[Chris09]

No it's not a sex link chick, the mother is a RSL

I understand that.

This is what I am talking about,


Quote from Kev,
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Quote from catdaddyfro,
You can not get a Red Sex-link by crossing say a R.I. Red Rooster over a Dominate White Hen, You could Cross a Red Pyle Leghorn Rooster over a Sex-link Silver Hen and that would create Sex-link offspring that is much like your hen.

Chris

 

[aoxa]

I understand that. 

This is what I am talking about,



and




You can not get a Red Sex-link by crossing say a R.I. Red Rooster over a Dominate White Hen, You could Cross a Red Pyle Leghorn Rooster over a Sex-link Silver Hen and that would create Sex-link offspring that is much like your hen. 

Chris

So she has leghorn in her? Oh my.. This genetic thing confuses me

 

[Chris09]

Yes that hen pictured with the barred cock is a red/golden sexlink hybrid and is made by crossing a red(gold) male over a dominant white hen (most likely some form of leghorn type high production egg-layer) note the white in the tail(red pyle) and probably has some in the lower neck hackles and wing flight feathers too? So therefore half of the offspring she produces will be white. She's a a production type hybrid not so much a production red great differences there and a long line of debating to go with that, but they are sometimes marketed as "production reds"

Dominant white can mask every chicken color or pattern under the sun even barring which is black with white stripes.

Jeff

A Red Pyle Hen only has Red in her Hackles, the rest of there body is White.


Chris

 

[Chris09]

So she has leghorn in her? Oh my.. This genetic thing confuses me

Yes she has Leghorn somewhere in her make up.

Chris

 

[aoxa]

Okay, so this chick is now 13 weeks old, and very much a girl. Since then I have hatched three more from this combo. 2/3 are white. 1 is barred.

Here is Jaycie (her mother is Penny - so it was a must).

She is already the size of her mother (RSL) and I expect her to be a good layer, as her father's sister is just as good as her mother.

This is a 3 week younger male. Will be used for meat once he is big enough to eat. Thought I'd update on the looks of this one in case anyone is interested