Rustic Rock? What is this cross?

[Too Fast]

We got 3 Rustic Rock chics, they seem happy at 5 weeks old. They are more fiesty than the Cinnamon Queens.

 

[FlockVillemaire]

I don’t think so.

You're absolutely right. You can't get a barred pullet from a solid roo sire. The barring allele is only on the male X chromosome, why it is so easily used for sex linkage with a solid colored sire. But a Rustic Rock pullet is barred,

it probably is the same thing as a rustic rambler. I have two rustic rock chicks from TSC as well! good luck!

Can't be. Any barred hen must have a barred or cuckoo sire. Rustic Ramblers have solid BCM sires, perhaps a Cuckoo Marans?

 

[FlockVillemaire]

I think I read somewhere that they were experimenting with a RHODE Island Red over Barred Rock cross. Should be a good cross!

That still wouldn't get barring on the hens. XY chromosomes with a solid sire won't have a barred X for the daughters, since the mother gives her barred X ONLY to her sons. That cross sounds like an F2 cross back to the RIR?