Crossing my Red Ranger Hens.

[Compost King]

Assuming @Compost King does not mind, could you post pictures of these birds once they grow out? I'm contemplating doing a similar cross, and I really would like to know what they look like and weigh at the 8 and 10 week mark.

I don't mind and I encourage people sharing photos and telling their chicken stories too.

Oh yeah and the chicks she hatched I are from me and I have some that turn 9 weeks old tomorrow and I took pictures today I will go dig them up and post them now..

 

[BlueBaby]

@Compost King Are the Dork O's like a sex-link? This one that hatched remind's me of a chipmunk, and has dark brown starting at the head and run's down the back of it.

 

[Compost King]

First Picture parents, Silver Grey Dorking Rooster with his own Daughters that are half Dorking half Red Rangers

Not sure exact age here, between week 3 and week 6 because they are in the 2nd stage Brooder.

One picture shows a sloppy Silver Duck Wing pattern on a female.

Incomplete columbian pattern

Top view of 2 of them at the feeder, The one at the top of the picture has a Sloppy Columbian pattern and is likely a male, The other shows some red leakage around the back end.

I threw in a close up of one of the mothers because it was handy

Another with a sloppy Columbian Pattern

Silver Duckwing and Incomplete Columbian

Columbian and Incomplete Columbian patterns

The oddball of the group, extreme amount of Red Leakage. No other chicken from this particular crossing had this much leakage.

 

[Compost King]

@Compost King Are the Dork O's like a sex-link? This one that hatched remind's me of a chipmunk, and has dark brown starting at the head and run's down the back of it.

I do not recall any consistent sex linkage in this crossing that could be noticed at hatch in this crossing. The Crossing before this I believe may have had one where the males had a very light to no Chipmunk pattern and the females had a clear to semi lightened chipmunk pattern but I didn't observe close enough to verify it.

 

[igorsMistress]

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First Picture parents, Silver Grey Dorking Rooster with his own Daughters that are half Dorking half Red Rangers
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Not sure exact age here, between week 3 and week 6 because they are in the 2nd stage Brooder.
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One picture shows a sloppy Silver Duck Wing pattern on a female.

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Incomplete columbian pattern
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Top view of 2 of them at the feeder, The one at the top of the picture has a Sloppy Columbian pattern and is likely a male, The other shows some red leakage around the back end.
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I threw in a close up of one of the mothers because it was handy
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Another with a sloppy Columbian Pattern
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Silver Duckwing and Incomplete Columbian
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Columbian and Incomplete Columbian patterns
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The oddball of the group, extreme amount of Red Leakage. No other chicken from this particular crossing had this much leakage.

Thanks for the pics, the parents are beautiful!

The 2 chicks here have the chipmunk pattern. One has down that's white on the belly, the other is yellowish. They remind of fluffy penguin chicks.

 

[igorsMistress]

Assuming @Compost King does not mind, could you post pictures of these birds once they grow out? I'm contemplating doing a similar cross, and I really would like to know what they look like and weigh at the 8 and 10 week mark.

I made a note on the calendar to weigh them and take pics.

 

[ThracianHorse]

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First Picture parents, Silver Grey Dorking Rooster with his own Daughters that are half Dorking half Red Rangers
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Not sure exact age here, between week 3 and week 6 because they are in the 2nd stage Brooder.
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One picture shows a sloppy Silver Duck Wing pattern on a female.

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Incomplete columbian pattern
View attachment 1890936
Top view of 2 of them at the feeder, The one at the top of the picture has a Sloppy Columbian pattern and is likely a male, The other shows some red leakage around the back end.
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I threw in a close up of one of the mothers because it was handy
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Another with a sloppy Columbian Pattern
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Silver Duckwing and Incomplete Columbian
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Columbian and Incomplete Columbian patterns
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The oddball of the group, extreme amount of Red Leakage. No other chicken from this particular crossing had this much leakage.

Quite the mixture of plumages there. All of these are dorking x red ranger (Other than the good looking roo at the top)? I wonder what something like a white-laced red cornish would do with such a cross. Hmm...

I made a note on the calendar to weigh them and take pics.

Thank you! That would be super helpful! My tentative plan is to cross the dorkings to the red rangers, and doing a separate cross of red rangers to cornish, then breeding that subsequent generation together, and cherry-picking from there. I got so fed up with the last batch of cornishX I raised... I've been reading lots of articles here, and lurking a lot on this thread in particular.

 

[igorsMistress]

Quite the mixture of plumages there. All of these are dorking x red ranger (Other than the good looking roo at the top)? I wonder what something like a white-laced red cornish would do with such a cross. Hmm...



Thank you! That would be super helpful! My tentative plan is to cross the dorkings to the red rangers, and doing a separate cross of red rangers to cornish, then breeding that subsequent generation together, and cherry-picking from there. I got so fed up with the last batch of cornishX I raised... I've been reading lots of articles here, and lurking a lot on this thread in particular.

I lurk here a lot too and in some of the other meat bird threads.

I'm not especially interested in cornish x, I'm looking to make my Nn bigger for the table and still keep them as dual purpose.

 

[Compost King]

Quite the mixture of plumages there. All of these are dorking x red ranger (Other than the good looking roo at the top)? I wonder what something like a white-laced red cornish would do with such a cross. Hmm...

I have 5 Dark Cornish eggs in the incubator that will hatch in less than a week. Not exactly the pattern you are looking for but After I cross them with my Recessive White Naked necks I might be able to make make a White Cornish (with and without a Naked Necks) who knows if I get that far, long term plans are subject to change due to factors like Dog attacks and Weak chicks that die early.

 

[ThracianHorse]

I have 5 Dark Cornish eggs in the incubator that will hatch in less than a week. Not exactly the pattern you are looking for but After I cross them with my Recessive White Naked necks I might be able to make make a White Cornish (with and without a Naked Necks) who knows if I get that far, long term plans are subject to change due to factors like Dog attacks and Weak chicks that die early.

I don't have much of a plan for patterns and plumage at all other than seeing what the difference is between darker colored and lighter colored birds when it comes to plucking a carcass... plucking ease, too (Which speaks well for a cross with a NN eventually for the lowered feather count). If I get some with an interesting plumage pattern that have a decent body size I might hang onto them and see if I can't stabilize/standardize some kind of uniform marking. The White-laced red cornish seem to have lighter body feathers, attractive lacing and the appealing body size and plump mass to them which to me makes them a very attractive candidate to be crossing. I am surprised that so many of your birds wound up with little to no red.