Plymouth Rock thread!

[BGMatt]

I dont know about your other questions, but if you use a barred male, since they carry 2 copies of the barring gene, females will be barred in some capacity

Oh right. Sorry, that was a dumb question.

 

[nicalandia]

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First Question BR Male over CR females will produce all Barred birds(males and females) Second: you are correct Barred rocks have an inhibitor of shank melanin, but that gene is linked to the Barring gene by 2 to 3 CentiMorgan this means it does not seggregate separetly from the Barring gene, meaning the black pullets will not inherit it, but as I said the shank color could be work at while stablishing such a beautiful bird(Black Rocks)

 

[nicalandia]

The Black Plymouth Rock isn't as popular in the U.S. as a Barred or White Rock but here is a Rooster and a Hen from a Germany site.

as you can see the shank color can be work up on, After the color has been Stabilized for a few years

 

[DMRippy]

How did you make your blue barred pullets?

When I first got chickens I had 2 splash pullets from Halo and I think 2 blues too. I crossed them with a barred rock roo and got some barred pullets. Kept crossing back to a barred rock roo. I have been crossing them for 3 generation to my GSBR Roo from Matt1616. The barring is hard to get on blues for some reason and it is finally getting that nice tight barring like the GSBR have.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: I THINK I have 2 black roos from Scott. They have DARK legs but it might improve with my GSBR pullets. I have to go through that pen and FIND them. LOTS of black birds in that pen. LOL

I will use his roos in a few months and see what I get leg color wise. I want to get some chicks one the ground from these guys first.

 

[BGMatt]

The Black Plymouth Rock isn't as popular in the U.S. as a Barred or White Rock but here is a Rooster and a Hen from a Germany site.

Those are some excellent Rocks. I like the tighter feather, would like a little more tail but eh. The female has a great back line, needs more front end. And look at the leg color! Proper leg color! So many of the Black and Blue "Plymouth Rocks" over here have the fluffy Orpington look and dark shanks.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: I personally would not want to deal with the red leakage from that cross. I have partridge rocks too..... they are for another PROJECT COLOR

I can deal with the silver leakage I have now. I will cull for it in the next generation so it should clean up pretty quick.

 

[nicalandia]

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using a Silver Penciled Rock male would produce hardly(on none) any leakage, due to the nature or eb and Pg(pattern gene known as melanizer) and IF there was any it would be Silver instead of gold

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Or you can start with a solid roo over barred pullets. No issues there

My pullet from Scott looked birchen, very pretty but that was a lot of silver to work with. I could have made some sex links silver males (when I say that I don't mean you can sex them at hatch) but didn't want to go through that. I sold her. She really wanted a roo too but she can not breed where she is at. Scotts roos are MASSIVE BIG. I think I will use them just to get some size in mine. (I think the GSBR genes in mine will pump them up too)

 

[DMRippy]

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