Plymouth Rock thread!

[DMRippy]

Quote: Stan, I think what you are going to do is use one of the Blue Roos from your original cross is that right? So if you cross the Sex linked roo x blue you will get 25% barred pullets, 25% Barred Roo (again sex link with only one copy) and 25% Solid Pullets and 25% Solid Roos, The barring will be harder to see on the splash barred roos. I don't have yellow legs in my Blues, working on it but having to do it through the back door, I don't think it is going to be easy. As for egg laying you will just have to be diligent and only hatch eggs from your best layers since they will have a mix of GSBR genes too.

Leg color is just a big problem in the blues. I have a splash maybe 2 I can't tell for sure both have lighter legs, but not the chicks from them. Something must be in the blue genes to hide the leg color. I have lots of hatching to do to get lighter legs......

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: OH, I have been looking high and low for a BLACK ROO! That would work best with my splash hens. Will you put me on the list for a black roo or two or 3 ..... I will drive down and get them ANYTIME you let me know you have some, ANY AGE as long as they are ROO

I have lots of little chicks from my Dick Hortsman Partridge Rock roo..... I hope some will have that pretty lacing too. Both hens are laying now so I will be able to hatch DOUBLE the chicks LOL. I know only a few will be usable and half of them will be roos. That is really another projects but MAYBE I can use some for the Blues too..... Leg color that is a problem.

I think I read something about the barring and good leg color.... YFOR you might know more about this than I do, but there is something in the barring that inhibits the dark legs, that is why you can use that to sex them at hatch....Roos have a double dose of it and thus lighter legs and pullets just the one and darker legs.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

OH, I have been looking high and low for a BLACK ROO! That would work best with my splash hens. Will you put me on the list for a black roo or two or 3 ..... I will drive down and get them ANYTIME you let me know you have some, ANY AGE as long as they are ROO

I have lots of little chicks from my Dick Hortsman Partridge Rock roo..... I hope some will have that pretty lacing too. Both hens are laying now so I will be able to hatch DOUBLE the chicks LOL. I know only a few will be usable and half of them will be roos. That is really another projects but MAYBE I can use some for the Blues too..... Leg color that is a problem.

I think I read something about the barring and good leg color.... YFOR you might know more about this than I do, but there is something in the barring that inhibits the dark legs, that is why you can use that to sex them at hatch....Roos have a double dose of it and thus lighter legs and pullets just the one and darker legs.

I'll let you know how hatching goes.

As far as genetics I am NO expert.....here is a link to some info that might help

http://sellers.kippenjungle.nl/page3.html

 

[DMRippy]

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Thank you! Light might be at the end of the tunnel.... 2 year tunnel....

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

Thank you! Light might be at the end of the tunnel.... 2 year tunnel....

Welcome.....get ready, these guys could be REALLY big. My 10 month old CR males are 10 1/2 lbs

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: I can handle it! I have a GSBR roo about that big and maybe a month old LOVE the BIG BIRDS! I was about to resort to getting a Hatchery White Rock and see what I would get! This is like my birthday all over again.... CHICKENS!

 

[catdaddyfro]

I know I jumped plum over the fence a while ago with my other post LOL I thought the pullet in the picture was the one in question, that's what I get for ASSuMEEing huh?

Anyway I see ya'll using the BRs to make these Blues why aren't ya'll not following breeding for blues by crossing Blacks and splashes like you would do to breed Andalusians? same thing just a different bird, color is color even on a Silky LOL

 

[DMRippy]

I know I jumped plum over the fence a while ago with my other post LOL I thought the pullet in the picture was the one in question, that's what I get for ASSuMEEing huh?

Anyway I see ya'll using the BRs to make these Blues why aren't ya'll not following breeding for blues by crossing Blacks and splashes like you would do to breed Andalusians? same thing just a different bird, color is color even on a Silky LOL

That IS how I got started. I had Blue and Splash pullets with a Barred Roo..... then I breed the blue barred pullets to another Barred roo and so on and so on..... I don't have anyother SOLID Color Rocks to work with, just blue and splash hens.... no roo.

I think that is what stan did too. He used a splash roo x br hens

 

[tigercreek]

That IS how I got started. I had Blue and Splash pullets with a Barred Roo..... then I breed the blue barred pullets to another Barred roo and so on and so on..... I don't have anyother SOLID Color Rocks to work with, just blue and splash hens.... no roo.

I think that is what stan did too. He used a splash roo x br hens

Sort of, but I did it intentionally. I searched out the splash roo to put over the GS pullets just for the reason of making sex linked blues. I considered it a short cut to a larger number of blue pullets. I would have only gotten 25% blues with the solid blue roo (12 1/2 % pullets). I did have a solid blue from the same line as the Splash, but I got 100% blues from the splash. ......stan

 

[catdaddyfro]

Sort of, but I did it intentionally. I searched out the splash roo to put over the GS pullets just for the reason of making sex linked blues. I considered it a short cut to a larger number of blue pullets. I would have only gotten 25% blues with the solid blue roo (12 1/2 % pullets). I did have a solid blue from the same line as the Splash, but I got 100% blues from the splash. ......stan

Yeah I remember this from way back stan, but you didn't get Blue roos right, just blue barred.Another thing you have to realize is to keep the blue going you have to keep splash and blacks to breed back to from time to time as breeding blues to blues doesn't work 100%.In otherwords you will always be raising 3 different varieties of the same breed. If you keep using the barred roos you will always have barring in the background some where. The blacks that Scott will be making will work wonders in these projects.IMO

LOL I'm not a blue breeder I'm just spouting my mouth off at what I've read, take it for what its worth,LOL

Hey but when I grow up one of these days in about another thirty or forty breeding years i'd love to make a blue delaware patterned bird it would look like a coronation sussex with the neck hackles barred, instead of columbian striped and the males to have the blue barred tails too, hey I can dream huh?

Jeff