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Years of work and tons of culling and my first genetically improved Rhodebars are out of the bator. Happy dance!
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EastNashChick said:
DMRippy, you were right!! I have a purebred Ameraucana roo 28 weeks that I would like to re-home in middle TN. He has outsmarted his no-crow collar, and although he's not very loud AT ALL turns out our new neighbor in the house we just purchased work nights. Our boy crows during the day.

He's so good looking and docile, bit protects the girls, I think it would be a shame to cull like we did with our mean Dominique roo.

I would consider a free re-home worn the promise of hatching eggs against him and BBS Ameraucana hens or blue chicks in the spring.

Any takers? We are in Nashville.






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Wish I lived closer, I would take him, I have 2 blue am pullets and 2 blue splash am roos, lost my pretty blue roo to a dog attack....
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n3kms said:
NestingHillsSC said:
 
:ya :jumpy
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That's exciting.  What did you try to improve about them?
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Everything! Lol
The Rhodebars in this country are a mess. The importer immediately began crossing in other things and created a genetic nightmare because they didn't know what they were doing. They even tell you about their attempt at crossing on their Web page.
We have two main problems with Rhodebars here in the US. The first is basic structure. They should be brick shaped and looked like a barred standard bred RIR. They don't. The second problem is that way too many were (and still are) selling what they think are Rhodebar but they are not. They are either simply breeding what they were sold and told. It got out of hand quickly and now way too many people have birds they think are Rhodebars which aren't or they ordered eggs or chicks and realized (Thank goodness) that they didn't get what they should have. It's given the Rhodebars a bad rep.
Rhodebars have to have the correct barring and have to be easily autosexed. If you breed what you assume are Rhodebars and EVERY chick isn't easily autosexed and then grows up to have the correct barring (double barred males, single barred females), then what you bred is not purebred Rhodebars. Lots of excuses like... Oh I have other birds the eggs may gotten mixed up... And interesting comments like that have caused people to unknowingly continue on as if they have Rhodebars that are pure.
So... Long story short, Rhodebar breeders have learned to document every chick and every hatch and have been encouraged by other breeders to never sell eggs without hatching from that combination first. And from a buyers perspective, you should never buy without seeing pics of the parents ad both chicks and adults.
 

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