Double-Dose Barring in Minorca Cockerel--How??

[Henk69]

I missed the point where she became a he ...

He is different from his sisters because he is a male.
Plus I don't think he looks that light.
Also he and his sisters don't look minorcan indeed.

 

[Krys109uk]

Any idea why he came out so light compared to the females?

'Fraid not.​

 

[tadkerson]

I say wait and see his adult plumage. Juvenile plumage is not a good indicator.

Tim

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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Sorry you don't see it...the only possibilities for them to have white earlobes, white legs and white skin leaves only the Minorca female as the mother. For an F1 cross, I don't believe they are any worse off type-wise than any production strain of Minorca.

Did I do another typo somewhere? It has always been a male on this one...I had hoped for all females, but you can't choose gender in the egg, yet!

 

[blackdotte]

At 7 weeks he has lighter than expected legs if he were a pure Barred Rock, but that is not unusual, many do not colour up until the male hormones kick in at about 12-16 weeks. I could only see pale ear lobes not what I would describe as white. He also appears to be slower feathering than I would expect from a Minorca cross.
My personal opinion is that he is a homozygous Barred Rock,
David

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I suppose I will just have to keep updates. His feathering seems awfully slow to me as well, however the male that was pure had yellow legs by 4 weeks of age. The yellow increased the more he was in the sun, but I'm not sure if that was coincidence of not.

I'm sure over the next few weeks he'll get more attributes that will help pin-point his lineage, but I can only be certain that he was the only chick that hatched from a white egg that was brooded by a hen. She abandoned the nest and I began incubating them artificially.

Thank you for your responses, hopefully as he matures he'll give more ideas.

 

[draye]

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You ever do anything else with this bird? He looks good to me.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Nope. Never got a chance. About 3 weeks after the photos were taken, something wiped out all my chicks in the pen. All of them just disappeared.

 

[draye]

Sorry, he was a beaut.