We have one RIR hen and 6 Golden Comets. We also have a mutt rooster who's father was a pure Barred Rock, but I don't know what his mother was. Here's what he looks like:
When he hatched out he was white/yellow with eye liner and partridge like stripes on his back. It took forever before he got any tail feathers... I was wondering if his mother was rump-less cause that is how he looked! He is very big and is just 5 months old. He is the father of the chicks, but I am curious as to what you think of them.
I have this one that has the longest tail feathers!!
From looking at other pictures I am wondering if this is the offspring from the RIR hen.
This is the only other reddish chick. This one hatched out buff, but no stripes and no eye liner like the other. To me it looked "Comet-like" but now it is getting a little more red in the feathers and also is getting more tail (but nothing like the darker red!).
This one looks like the roo, but the roo as a baby didn't feather out as barred so quickly.
The last two are mostly white with only the faintest of pale golden in the wing feathers... it's almost non-existent, but they are not the purest white so...
To save space, I'll just post the one picture since the other looks almost identical. All the lighter ones have hardly any tail feathers like the father roo. I know you can sex by color on Comets, but because the roo is a mix there, I'm hoping that not all the whites are roos! Anyway, any thoughts? Is the long tail a RIR offspring? The Buff from the Comet or more RIR? We have a Comet sitting on 11 eggs so we should get some more babies to compare come August 1st. On some of the eggs that did not make it out of the incubator (quitters) one was black! So I assume that is the Barred Rock genetics coming through. We are hatching these for egg layers.
Thanks in advance for your opinions!
When he hatched out he was white/yellow with eye liner and partridge like stripes on his back. It took forever before he got any tail feathers... I was wondering if his mother was rump-less cause that is how he looked! He is very big and is just 5 months old. He is the father of the chicks, but I am curious as to what you think of them.
I have this one that has the longest tail feathers!!
This is the only other reddish chick. This one hatched out buff, but no stripes and no eye liner like the other. To me it looked "Comet-like" but now it is getting a little more red in the feathers and also is getting more tail (but nothing like the darker red!).
This one looks like the roo, but the roo as a baby didn't feather out as barred so quickly.
The last two are mostly white with only the faintest of pale golden in the wing feathers... it's almost non-existent, but they are not the purest white so...
To save space, I'll just post the one picture since the other looks almost identical. All the lighter ones have hardly any tail feathers like the father roo. I know you can sex by color on Comets, but because the roo is a mix there, I'm hoping that not all the whites are roos! Anyway, any thoughts? Is the long tail a RIR offspring? The Buff from the Comet or more RIR? We have a Comet sitting on 11 eggs so we should get some more babies to compare come August 1st. On some of the eggs that did not make it out of the incubator (quitters) one was black! So I assume that is the Barred Rock genetics coming through. We are hatching these for egg layers.
Thanks in advance for your opinions!
