The Rhodebar thread!

[nicalandia]

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looks like a Male to me too...

 

[RedRidge]

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looks like a Male to me too...

So. .. a chipmunk striped male. There goes my theory that the stripes indicated female

 

[nicalandia]

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thats right, basically e+/eWh or e+/eb B/b+ males dont show a headspot or is very faint, but retains the chipmunk stripes

 

[melroseladi]

So. .. a chipmunk striped male. There goes my theory that the stripes indicated female

Sheri I am thinking more along the lines of the darkness of the stripes. Here are some pics of mine I took this morning

My lightest at hatching and is also my smallest and clearly looks male to me. You can see a medium at hatching next to him.



Medium colored stripe at hatching. His comb and small tail are saying male to me as well.



One of the dark striped at hatch. Sorry it's a bit blurry.



So the darker stripes are feathering out differently then the chicks hatched with lighter stripes.

Penny

 

[smarsh]

question please

If you cross two autosexing breeds, is the result also autosexing?

 

[nicalandia]

I believe Rhodebars are better Autosexing breed than the Cram Legbars, and thats why heterozygous barred maels(single barred) will not show headspot and chipmunk stripes

 

[nicalandia]

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yes

 

[nicalandia]

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Why Rhodebars are better autosexing than Cream Legbars? and why single barred males dont show a headspot?.. Thats simple, female Rhodebars are not expected to have a distinctive headspot, and females are B/- meaning they can only have one copy of the Barring gene, make their genome exactly like the single barred males, Rhodebar Females genome, e+/e+ B/- , single barred F1 genome d+/ey B/b+.. but what does this has to do with Cream Lebars? well the SOP and Punnetts description on the legbar females show a distinctive headspot, so some Heterozygous males show a faint headspot while having a distinctive chipmunk stipes.. here is a post of a Cream Legbar owner..
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Originally Posted by dretd


If you go back to the downs color listed in the British SOP, they do list a head spot in the girls Here is a girl with the biggest headspot I hatched.a chipmunk chick girl.


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[nicalandia]

at first when I proposed doing the Back cross to HRIR project to enhance the Rhodebar breed I really believed that one could see the headspot on the males because I have seen Cream Lebar crosses do this, but it has become Obvious that this will not be the case, because of the Rhodebar outstanding Autosexing ability.. Other Breeds are not as lucky, Cream Legbar Hybrids
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Originally Posted by HaplessRunner


Hatching pictures of CCxEE Roo





CCLxEE Roo at one week









Note what appears to be a definitive white spot on his head as opposed to a "cap" exhibited by other barred chick varieties.

here is another CL hybrid cross to eb
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Originally Posted by CibolaChooks


Head Spot equals boy.

 

[RedRidge]

Medium colored stripe at hatching. His comb and small tail are saying male to me as well.

Tail size? now this is something I haven't paid attention to... please explain...