Delaware or Columbian Rock

[TheDuckGuy]

Doesn’t TSC also get chicks from cackle? Cackle sells columbian rocks.

Another possibility is that he’s a columbian wyandotte without a rose comb. Columbian wyandottes can have the recessive single comb gene just like other varieties of wyandotte.

Those can take a while to come in.

This is confusing

 

[TheDuckGuy]

Why do you want to separate him?

I have bantams and a silkie roo

 

[ShrekDawg]

I do

I would maybe make a bachelor pen then or possibly rehome him if you can’t keep him

 

[ShrekDawg]

Barring is the white stripes, not the black stripes. A white chicken can be barred without showing it, since barring is white itself.
It’s strange that your hen doesn’t have barring in her tail feathers, but that seems common for hatchery Delawares.

Huh, neat! Thanks! Does that mean she could have barred offspring then? And yeah she’s from Meyer and I don’t think theirs have the proper barring.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Huh, neat! Thanks! Does that mean she could have barred offspring then? And yeah she’s from Meyer and I don’t think theirs have the proper barring.

All her sons will be barred. Whether that barring is visible depends on what you breed her with.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Doesn’t TSC also get chicks from cackle? Cackle sells columbian rocks.

Another possibility is that he’s a columbian wyandotte without a rose comb. Columbian wyandottes can have the recessive single comb gene just like other varieties of wyandotte.

Those can take a while to come in.

I wonder if this chicken is a Columbian Wyandotte that has a single comb. Hatchery Wyandottes sometimes have single combs (wrong for the breed, but genetically possible.) And Hoovers does carry Columbian Wyandottes.

That would explain a bird that has Columbian patterning, single comb, clean feet, and does not have the white barring that a Delaware should.

I’m thinking Columbian Wyandotte is a definite possibility!!! Especially given those weird laced “Barred Rocks” everyone was getting from them for a while! Anything is possible with Hoover’s hahah that said though, I didn’t realize they got some chicks from Cackle or heard that before

 

[ShrekDawg]

All her sons will be barred. Whether that barring shows up depends on what you breed her with.

Ahh okay. I may start my own thread on this then so I don’t hijack. I was just trying to figure out who the parents were on a barred pullet that I hatched back in February.

 

[TheDuckGuy]

I would maybe make a bachelor pen then or possibly rehome him if you can’t keep him

I don't do rehoming I love them too much but yeah a bachelor pen he might get to breed eventually

 

[TheDuckGuy]

Ahh okay. I may start my own thread on this then so I don’t hijack. I was just trying to figure out who the parents were on a barred pullet that I hatched back in February.

You can hijack I dont mind lol

 

[ShrekDawg]

I don't do rehoming I love them too much but yeah a bachelor pen he might get to breed eventually

That’s understandable!