Lavender barred rock wanted

[Superstition chickens]

That's not Lavender...

Lavender Cuckoo:
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(Black) Cuckoo:
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But I don't have a barred rock roo

That's not Lavender...

Lavender Cuckoo:
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(Black) Cuckoo:
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That's not Lavender...

Lavender Cuckoo:
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(Black) Cuckoo:
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I don't have a barred Rock rooster and I hatched her it's hard to tell the difference but the hen on the left is lavender and black and the hent on the right is white and black

 

[Superstition chickens]

Looks like a normal barred to me.

its hard too tell but left is lavender and black right is black and white I hatched this hen and I know I don't have a barred Rock booster.

 

[ColtHandorf]

I don't have a barred Rock rooster and I hatched her it's hard to tell the difference but the hen on the left is lavender and black and the hent on the right is white and black

So that's not how any of this works. lol What two birds are the parents of the bird you posted originally?

 

[Superstition chickens]

So that's not how any of this works. lol What two birds are the parents of the bird you posted originally?

Lavender orpington rooster, barred Rock hen if I'm wrong in thinking that's how it works please educate me.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Lavender orpington rooster, barred Rock hen if I'm wrong in thinking that's how it works please educate me.

First of all, crossing two breeds together doesn't mean the offspring are pure. They are neither Orpingtons nor Plymouth Rocks. They are mixed. So you can't call the Plymouth Barred Rocks either.

Second of all, Lavender is recessive (and dilutes black). None of the F1 offspring will be visually Lavender. In order to be Lavender, a bird must have two copies of the gene. Like their father. Since he is only able to give one copy Lavender) of the gene to his chicks and the mother only gives one copy (Black) of the gene to her chicks, the chicks will all appear Black with barring.

Barring is more complicated and hens only need one copy to be barred while males need two. @The Moonshiner or @Amer can explain that way better than I can. I don't fool with barred birds.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

First of all, crossing two breeds together doesn't mean the offspring are pure. They are neither Orpingtons nor Plymouth Rocks. They are mixed. So you can't call the Plymouth Barred Rocks either.

Second of all, Lavender is recessive (and dilutes black). None of the F1 offspring will be visually Lavender. In order to be Lavender, a bird must have two copies of the gene. Like their father. Since he is only able to give one copy Lavender) of the gene to his chicks and the mother only gives one copy (Black) of the gene to her chicks, the chicks will all appear Black with barring.

Barring is more complicated and hens only need one copy to be barred while males need two. @The Moonshiner or @Amer can explain that way better than I can. I don't fool with barred birds.

Isn't the barring the black part too? So a lavender barred would be a white bird with lavender bars?

 

[ColtHandorf]

Isn't the barring the black part too? So a lavender barred would be a white bird with lavender bars?

Yes, the black would be Lavender. Lavender is a dilute of Black. Was that not clear?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Yes, the black would be Lavender. Lavender is a dilute of Black. Was that not clear?

Just wanted to make sure that the white on barred birds was always going to be white no matter the color

 

[Superstition chickens]

First of all, crossing two breeds together doesn't mean the offspring are pure. They are neither Orpingtons nor Plymouth Rocks. They are mixed. So you can't call the Plymouth Barred Rocks either.

Second of all, Lavender is recessive (and dilutes black). None of the F1 offspring will be visually Lavender. In order to be Lavender, a bird must have two copies of the gene. Like their father. Since he is only able to give one copy Lavender) of the gene to his chicks and the mother only gives one copy (Black) of the gene to her chicks, the chicks will all appear Black with barring.

Barring is more complicated and hens only need one copy to be barred while males need two. @The Moonshiner or @Amer can explain that way better than I can. I don't fool with barred birds.

Thank you for the info very cool, I will do more research before getting excited about what I cross and what they are. So instead of saying I have lavender barred rocks I should say that I have lavender barred Rock crosses right?

 

[TJAnonymous]

Second of all, Lavender is recessive (and dilutes black). None of the F1 offspring will be visually Lavender. In order to be Lavender, a bird must have two copies of the gene. Like their father. Since he is only able to give one copy Lavender) of the gene to his chicks and the mother only gives one copy (Black) of the gene to her chicks, the chicks will all appear Black with barring.

Barring is more complicated and hens only need one copy to be barred while males need two. @The Moonshiner or @Amer can explain that way better than I can. I don't fool with barred birds.

I'm glad I stumbled across your explanation here. Is the barring explanation limited only to these breeds? I'm asking because I've got a couple of chicks that came out black with barring. This came from a splash-colored Blue Andalusian mother. I assumed the father is my Cream Legbar rooster which would explain the barring, but I also have two Ameraucana roosters - one black and one lavender.

If the chick did come from the CL rooster, would I be correct in assuming it's a girl since I know the mother shouldn't have a barring gene?