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Thank you so much for your wonderful article. Please could you lookat my recent post and photos of Barvelder Rooster crossed with Lite Sussex hen. In the future I presume I should select eggs from the lite sussex hens. However what might Apricot and Chic produce. crossed with Barnvelder dad. Chooky Roo and his Astralorpes,two have barred feathers. Thanks Beth
 
Hi everyone!

I hatched a chick today from a barred rock hen & Black copper Marans rooster. The chick hatched out completely light yellow with yellow legs? It should have been a sex linked chick. These are new hens that I haven't hatched from before, but they are hatchery barred rocks. Any ideas?
 
Is that the only chick you hatched? What did the others look like if you had others? How many total from that pairing?

I can see two possibilities. Maybe both the rooster and hen are carrying recessive white and that happened to pair up. This is not very likely with hatchery chickens but anything is possible.

The one I see as more likely is that one parent had dominant white. How sure are you that the Copper Marans was the father or the Barred Rock was the mother?
 
Ridgerunner said:
Is that the only chick you hatched? What did the others look like if you had others? How many total from that pairing?

I can see two possibilities. Maybe both the rooster and hen are carrying recessive white and that happened to pair up. This is not very likely with hatchery chickens but anything is possible.

The one I see as more likely is that one parent had dominant white. How sure are you that the Copper Marans was the father or the Barred Rock was the mother?
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Yes, it's the only one that hatched from these new hens. I agree that the
most likely explanation is that it was from another chicken. I have 1 leghorn and 3 Tetra Tints, but I get white/light cream eggs from them everyday and thought I knew which eggs were theirs. It is possible that I'm matching the wrong eggs with the wrong chickens and this chick is out of a Tetra Tint. BCM's are my only roosters - the only other possibility is a Blue Ameraucana cockerel that went to freezer camp a while ago.
 
farmerChef said:
How long have you had the hens? You said they are new, it may be from thier old rooster. Hens can "hold" sperm about 3 weeks.
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True, if your boy that went to freezer camp was around 3 weeks ago, he could be the father. When I set up my breeding pens I usually wait at least a month before collecting the eggs to put in the incubator and every once in awhile I still get a mystery chick.
 
They can hold sperm for couple months. When I was into serious breeding I would allow a hen that had been polluted by an undesirable cock to lay a clutch, set and hatch the eggs, raise and wean the biddies. Start laying again before I would consider her clean
 

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