The Rhodebar thread!

[Makomd]

My roosters in this pen are sex linked males all barred. My current hatches are basically line 3 on the chart where I need to select the red barred females and males to breed for fourth and final stage for autosexing. Was hoping there might be some idea of knowing which will be barred at hatch. A couple are black, some are more yellow, and some are red.

 

[JamesA]

Ok to simplify what I need to know.I have a Greenfire Farm Rhodebar roo and some RIR pullets.How can I make auto sexing chicks from these and how many generations would it take? Does anyone have a chart?

 

[Makomd]

From my understanding you would want to keep the offspring that are red barred from this mating. The barred red offspring would hatch out autosexing chicks. You basically get to skip step one on the chart that is posted earlier in this thread.

 

[JamesA]

so it is as easy as just breeding my rhodebar roo to my RIR pullets and keeping the red barred chicks and they would produce auto sexing chicks?

 

[Makomd]

Yes if what i have read is correct.

 

[cjwaldon]

My roosters in this pen are sex linked males all barred. My current hatches are basically line 3 on the chart where I need to select the red barred females and males to breed for fourth and final stage for autosexing. Was hoping there might be some idea of knowing which will be barred at hatch. A couple are black, some are more yellow, and some are red.

Did you figure this out? I'm at the same stage, eggs due to hatch tomorrow. Any pointers for early selections would be helpful. Thanks!

 

[Makomd]

No not really. I am seeing blacks, whites, and reds. The blacks and whites (yellow) have some barring on their wings and some striping down there backs on some, but at this point nothing I can call conclusive. We have hatched out about 30-40 chicks so far with another 20-30 expected in the next couple of weeks. The first three clutches seem to have about the same ratio of 1/3 for each color. After these last hatches, I plan on changing roosters as one of my sex link roos has a lot of red throughout most of his body with barring, unfortunately he has not been the dominant roo in the pen.

I expect the reddish ones are the keepers until they start to really feather in and are able to distinguish which of the red are barred and which are not.

 

[Makomd]

Here are some that just hatched earlier this morning and are a good example of the 3 colors I am seeing.

 

[Makomd]

As my oldest birds are now at about 3 weeks, the barring is showing up on their wings where I did not see any before. Looking at their wings after just hatching you can see some of the barring on their wings pin feathers. Let me know how your hatch turns out, doing the color charts on http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator I noticed the offspring could be of various colors. I'm just hoping my hatchery barred rocks are not throwing me off. I have some nice looking heritage RIR in the growout pen and hoping to bring in some nice genes and another line or two to add to this.

 

[cjwaldon]

First one has hatched, black with very small white head spot and white wing tips. Did any of yours look like that?

My birds are all hatchery. Here is what my black sex-link roos look like, almost no red at all.