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dheltzel said:
"barred rock" is an easy to replicate pattern because both black and barring are dominant. If you crosses a Legbar and any black breed (australorp or black Ameraucana, for ex), all the resulting chicks will strongly resemble a barred rock hen in coloration - even though that color is not present on either parent.

Actually, that is only true if the cock is the Legbar, if you used a Legbar pullet and a Black Am roo, you would get black sexlinks, with only the cockerel chicks looking like barred rocks.
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You run circles around me on genetics, lol...our flock has a black australorp rooster also, he is 1st roo, Grayson is 2nd in command, we have a few black hen mutts, 2 black jersey giants and 2 barred rock, along with our light sussex, white rock (hens and roos of each of those two breeds) and 4 busybody buckeye hens. It seems 80% of the mix chicks we get are black or barred, the rare white and red one show up and an even rarer grouse looking one...I have to admit, I am pretty partial to the mixes, very forward little critters, always interesting to watch them develop.
I currently have a group of 5 pullets which hatched on New Years Day that I really should be advertising for sale, but they are so cute running around and begging I have been dragging my feet....:hide
And I haven't sold Gracy's Thanksgiving chicks either, there are two pure Silver Pencil Plymouth Rocks and a barnyard mix pullet...I want them to stay together and I am worried someone will only want the SPRs and sell off the BY pullet and she would be lost without her sisters. ..

I'm getting soft in my old age....:th
 
dheltzel said:
So call it Cuckoo, which is the barring gene without the slow feathering (and maybe other) gene that gives the crisp barring that exhibition barred rocks have. I use barring because that is the genotype, even if the phenotype gets called cuckoo.

Cuckoo is a descriptive word for a chicken, don't you think?
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Yeah, I guess Cuckoo will be good. And I bet Duckling like Cuckoo too. Some people are so serious about these definitions, aren't they?
 
KJ6485 said:
Khaki Campbell. They are 5 and a half weeks old now, they are pretty funny, but I didn't think they would be so skittish, they are very scared of everything including the family even though they were raised in our house for the 1st few weeks and got a lot of attention. They live in a small coop outside now with an attached run, but spend most of the day in the coop and don't really want to be in the run, we open the run for them while we are at home so they can free range in the yard, but sometimes they don't even have interest in leaving their enclosure, if we do manage to get them to come out they seem to enjoy picking around at the ground, we have a pond also, and they of course are scared of that too, they look at it but really don't have interest in swimming. weird birds!


EDIT----they are free to be in their enclosed run all day, when i say open the run I mean so they have free range of the entire yard
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I heard Khaki Campbell can be flighty. They may calm down when they start to lay though. I heard lots of good things about Pekins, but we just start our chickens and not ready for ducks yet.
 
Chaos18 said:
Why would you be attacked for calling it barring?
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I think my point has been made by others.

dheltzel said:
So call it Cuckoo, which is the barring gene without the slow feathering (and maybe other) gene that gives the crisp barring that exhibition barred rocks have. I use barring because that is the genotype, even if the phenotype gets called cuckoo.

Cuckoo is a descriptive word for a chicken, don't you think?
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Oh, yes! :D
Chaos18 said:
It's a descriptive word for people too :lau
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HEY! I hope you aren't referring to me! :hide
 
dheltzel said:
So call it Cuckoo, which is the barring gene without the slow feathering (and maybe other) gene that gives the crisp barring that exhibition barred rocks have. I use barring because that is the genotype, even if the phenotype gets called cuckoo.

Cuckoo is a descriptive word for a chicken, don't you think?
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I agree that cuckoo is a more accurate description of his appearance. ..but then again, one of the 'pure bred' Barred Rock hens we have is from a hatchery and looks more cuckoo than most Dominique do! LOL
My other BR hen is from show stock and the difference is night and day when you see them together!
 
MotorcycleChick said:
I think my point has been made by others.
Oh, yes!
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HEY! I hope you aren't referring to me!
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Why would I refer to you as cuckoo?
 

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