Is this color from a Barred Rock Roo????

[Ellydee]

 

[Ellydee]

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I was told he was a Barred Rock, but I got this little beauty this morning! Is he California Grey? Or something else? I have one white leghorn hen who is about 4 years old. She's mama.

 

[Mosey2003]

Barred over anything with dominant white in its background will throw some yellow and yellow-with-black-spots chicks, yep. I got those when I hatched from a pen with a Barred male and Cinnamon Queen hens.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I agree. If he is pure barred rock then he should give all his offspring an extended black gene which is pretty dominant. With most hens you will get black chicks because black is so dominant. They will all be barred too. But dominant white turns all feathers or parts of feathers that would normally be black to white. If your white leghorn is a pure white leghorn she should give all of the offspring the dominant white gene so all of the chicks from your cross should be white when they feather out.

Leakage is when random feathers turn out a different color than you would normally expect. It can be a few isolated feathers or you can even get a patch or two. Don't be surprised if you see some black spots.

All these chicks will have the barred gene but you probably will not see barring since the chicks are white. If you do get leakage you might see barring on those feathers.

 

[Ellydee]

Barred over anything with dominant white in its background will throw some yellow and yellow-with-black-spots chicks, yep. I got those when I hatched from a pen with a Barred male and Cinnamon Queen hens

 

[Ellydee]

Thank you! So is this little yellow chick a CA Grey?

 

[Mosey2003]

Thank you! So is this little yellow chick a CA Grey?

Don't know. Is that what that mix is?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Thank you! So is this little yellow chick a CA Grey?

No. I copied this description of a CA Grey below. It was not a one time cross. Through selective breeding he got the brown out of the egg color and got rid of anything that would get in the way of them all being barred. Since the leghorn body is kind of small he had to breed the leghorn size out of them and make them larger like the BR for them to be a meat bird.

You can call that chick whatever you want but it is not what is accepted as a CA Gray.

The California Gray was developed in California in the 1930s by Horace Dryden in Modesto, California.[4]: 432  His aim was to produce a dual-purpose chicken that would be suitable for meat production and would also lay large white eggs. By cross-breeding of Barred Plymouth Rock and White Leghorn birds, an autosexing breed with barred gray adult plumage was produced. As in other autosexing breeds, the sex of chicks can be distinguished at about a day old.