Can a barred rock rooster have an unbarred offspring?

[donrae]

He is one NICE looking cockeral! Looks like he'll make a nice dinner in a few more months.
I love the barring sex link info--looking into a few things to see which I want to persue in a few years.............oh, if only I had unlimited resources to devote to chickens!

 

[aoxa]

He is one NICE looking cockeral! Looks like he'll make a nice dinner in a few more months. I love the barring sex link info--looking into a few things to see which I want to persue in a few years.............oh, if only I had unlimited resources to devote to chickens!

Thanks I hope so. He is not as big as some of my barred x cochins that I hatched. Those ones are HUGE. If you want a nice dual purpose meat cross that is not going to suffer while you raise them, this is a good bird to try.

Male @ 12 weeks

Female @ 12 weeks Females will be kept for natural incubators/eggs. They are quite pretty (the females are).

 

[aoxa]

The chick in the original post is 16 weeks old and has ghost barring. You have to look REALLLLY close. It's there. She has the same body as her RSL mother, but is bigger. I'm hoping she will be a good layer!

 

[Fred's Hens]

The chick in the original post is 16 weeks old and has ghost barring. You have to look REALLLLY close. It's there. She has the same body as her RSL mother, but is bigger. I'm hoping she will be a good layer!

We've bred red sex-links, just like your original hen, and have gotten similar results. We've used a BR cock over the RSL, (not so much by design, but hey, things happen), and more than a few with this ghost barring under white cover. Yes, they lay extremely well, because the BR is a production/utility BR and putting him over a production oriented RSL makes good laying offspring. The egg size will normally not be up to the size of the RSL mother, however. Still, great eggs and lots of them.

If you breed that ghost hen back to an RSL male (white with brown saddle type) by F3 you begin to get a few birds that are quite white, with just a few darker shadows here and there that ghost. These white birds are just such pullets. These are some of the best hens we have. They gain a pound or two over their grandmother's size and lay extremely well.

 

[Fred's Hens]

To take this another step forward, since the RSL provided the great egg laying characteristics, you could see your first mating of BR over RSL as out breeding for that characteristic and then breed her back to her father, the BR. If done again, by F4, you have a pretty clean looking BR that is now a pretty high production BR.
This is how higher production traits are brought into a line of birds. Subsequent generations will all look Barred Rock, but will have had a shot of higher production injected.

Here's some.

 

[aoxa]

To take this another step forward, since the RSL provided the great egg laying characteristics, you could see your first mating of BR over RSL as out breeding for that characteristic and then breed her back to her father, the BR. If done again, by F4, you have a pretty clean looking BR that is now a pretty high production BR. This is how higher production traits are brought into a line of birds. Subsequent generations will all look Barred Rock, but will have had a shot of higher production injected. Here's some.

Wow that is very helpful Fred! I know the rooster I used has a sister that is right up to par with my RSLs in terms of laying. Her size is almost there, but the frequency is exactly the same. So the most I am hoping is that she lays very similar in frequency, and maybe in between in size of egg. Seeing the two girls I have like this with my group of RSLs is nice Add a little colour to the mix. I have only 6 production barred rock girls. 5/6 are still too young to lay. I don't have any RSL males as you mentioned in your first post.

This is the male from the same cross. I don't know why, but the females are bigger then the males. Hopefully he puts enough meat on him so we don't just get all bone when we process the extra boys late this fall.

 

[aoxa]

We've bred red sex-links, just like your original hen, and have gotten similar results.  We've used a BR cock over the RSL, (not so much by design, but hey, things happen), and more than a few with this ghost barring under white cover.  Yes, they lay extremely well, because the BR is a production/utility BR and putting him over a production oriented RSL makes good laying offspring.  The egg size will normally not be up to the size of the RSL mother, however.  Still, great eggs and lots of them.

If you breed that ghost hen back to an RSL male (white with brown saddle type) by F3 you begin to get a few birds that are quite white, with just a few darker shadows here and there that ghost.  These white birds are just such pullets.  These are some of the best hens we have.  They gain a pound or two over their grandmother's size and lay extremely well.

Those look like production type white rocks to me Neat.

 

[Georgia Boy 1970]

The chick in the original post is 16 weeks old and has ghost barring. You have to look REALLLLY close. It's there. She has the same body as her RSL mother, but is bigger. I'm hoping she will be a good layer!

That is a real nice looking pullet.Wonder what the results would be if she were paired with a welsummer rooster?Could you get creel colored chicks?

 

[aoxa]

That is a real nice looking pullet.Wonder what the results would be if she were paired with a welsummer rooster?Could you get creel colored chicks?

Thanks, and I doubt it.

 

[CGinJCMO]

Yes. Here's a one-month old male chick that has a barred rock father and a red sex link hen...and the chick has no barring (odd color pattern, but not what I'd call barring). Too bad it is a boy because I'd love to see what he looked like all grown up and any offspring created (I'm probably not keeping the BR roo but am thinking of switching to EEs so my BR girls, & RSL girls will produce green eggers)