The Rhodebar thread!

[nicalandia]

Again, I will post pictures of them in a little while.

Thanks again for the info.
Angela

Pics. only Pics will tell his genetic make up..

 

[atmaclean]

OK. Here are the babies. If you are wondering what happened to the yellow chick's eye, one of my older BCM chicks pecked it - almost killed it, I'm sure. When I got home, all I saw was blood and feared the worst. Fortunately, he will be alright. I cleaned him off with a cotton ball and put Neosporin on him a few times a day. Today his eye is open again and the eyeball seems ok. They plucked off the fluff around his head and eye. I had no idea they would be so nasty mean to him, poor baby. I guess his eye being black against his yellow fluff gave them something to peck at....? His siblings don't bother him at all. He is the mostly yellow one you see.
Angela

 

[Papa Brooder]

OK. Here are the babies. If you are wondering what happened to the yellow chick's eye, one of my older BCM chicks pecked it - almost killed it, I'm sure. When I got home, all I saw was blood and feared the worst. Fortunately, he will be alright. I cleaned him off with a cotton ball and put Neosporin on him a few times a day. Today his eye is open again and the eyeball seems ok. They plucked off the fluff around his head and eye. I had no idea they would be so nasty mean to him, poor baby. I guess his eye being black against his yellow fluff gave them something to peck at....? His siblings don't bother him at all. He is the mostly yellow one you see.
Angela


In the pic above the one chick with his rear back against the wall kind of looks like a rhodebar male.

Those don't look like any of the rhodebar males I have hatched to be honest. They seem way too yellow. Mine are more orange for lack of a better word. there are pics in the thread previously. interesting.

 

[atmaclean]

Wow. I wonder why there is such a variation in the coloring? Has anyone else had males that look like mine?? Do you think the three with the chipmunk stripes are definitely females?

Angela

 

[Papa Brooder]

they do look pretty similar to the females I hatch.

 

[atmaclean]

OK. Good. Thanks!! I thought they were. What about the males? Have you hatched any males that looked like mine?

Angela

 

[Papa Brooder]

The top pick are a pair of rhodebars from the fall. The bottom pic are my original stock from GFF.

 

[Papa Brooder]

Here's another pic of a pair just out of the incubator.

 

[Papa Brooder]

the last pic is under red heat lamp so color a bit off.

 

[nicalandia]

Wow. I wonder why there is such a variation in the coloring? Has anyone else had males that look like mine?? Do you think the three with the chipmunk stripes are definitely females?

Angela

the yellowish chicks look to me as wheaten heterozygotes(dominant wheaten cross with wildtype) they can be males or females. now to the wildtype looking chicks. they "Could" be females or none barred males. at this point their genetic integrity seems unstable. they could be RIRXRB cross.


Edit.

after taking a look at all of the "other" wildtype looking chicks, I also believe they are wheaten heterozygotes. some times wheaten/wildtype(eWh/e+) heterozygotes can look alot like wildtype chicks and other they can look almost wheaten. I recently hatch 4 chicks. from a ER/eWh x e+/e+ cross. one is ER/e+(Black chick down) 2 have wildtype chick down(eWh/e+) and one looks Wheaten(eWh/e+) Why is this? wheant is a very unstable e allele. some genes can affect its expression.

my chicks(From my Isolating Champagne Blond Cb breeding program)