The Rhodebar thread!

[Makomd]

His lay "different colored eggs". Green blue amd brown.

There are several on BYC that have purchased "Rhodebars" laying different colored eggs, I am afraid the waters have been muddied badly.

 

[atmaclean]

His lay "different colored eggs". Green blue amd brown.

There are several on BYC that have purchased "Rhodebars" laying different colored eggs, I am afraid the waters have been muddied badly.

I don't know what you mean by that but these are happy, healthy little chicks. Mine are about 2 1/2 weeks old now and doing wonderfully. He got his stock from Greenfire Farms. You can always email him and ask for pictures or more info. He was very helpful and nice when I contacted him.
Angela

 

[Makomd]

I don't doubt seller at all, but the eggs should only be brown/tinted not olive green or blue. Thats what I meant by muddied water. Many people are selling Rhodebars that lay green or blue eggs that they bought directly from Greenfire. Rhodebars do not lay green or blue eggs.

 

[chuckp7860]

Here's one of my first 2 pairs. I have put one of my Rhode Island Reds with them and will be hatching eggs from her and then will add a hen off her back to Dad which is suppose to bring out a new line with stronger egg laying also. We'll see how well this works but it of course will be later this year before you know but that's what everything I have read say about them. I see where this first posted a couple years back and said they were $29 a chick at Greenfire. I have seen them go up to $99 a hen and $49 a rooster and then back down to $49 and $19. The price must have roamed a lot over the last couple years. I have only had two shades of brown from my eggs. One a little lighter than the other but nothing but brown. I did get mine from a breeder in Florida and hope they are pure Rhodebars and not mixed with something else. I am just starting to hatch eggs so I will find out soon.

 

[chuckp7860]

I've had chicks look like they couldn't walk or was having a problem and have seen it in exotic birds also. I did what I was taught to do when I breed exotics. I laid either some hardware clothe or plastic square cloth that was 1/2" so they had something to grip with. It helps out some of them by allowing them to keep their legs together until they get the strength on their own. I think we called it splayed leg in exotics. Sometimes had to tape their legs together with that elastic vet tape and keep them in a smaller box that just barely held them so they wouldn't flail all over the place since they had their legs taped together but it helped until their muscles allowed them to keep their legs toghether as they got a little older.

 

[nicalandia]

Here's one of my first 2 pairs. I have put one of my Rhode Island Reds with them and will be hatching eggs from her and then will add a hen off her back to Dad which is suppose to bring out a new line with stronger egg laying also. We'll see how well this works but it of course will be later this year before you know but that's what everything I have read say about them. I see where this first posted a couple years back and said they were $29 a chick at Greenfire. I have seen them go up to $99 a hen and $49 a rooster and then back down to $49 and $19. The price must have roamed a lot over the last couple years. I have only had two shades of brown from my eggs. One a little lighter than the other but nothing but brown. I did get mine from a breeder in Florida and hope they are pure Rhodebars and not mixed with something else. I am just starting to hatch eggs so I will find out soon.

is the one on the right a Rhodebar or Hampbar? I ask because its way too light to look like a decent Rhodebar

 

[Miss Molly]

is the one on the right a Rhodebar or Hampbar? I ask because its way too light to look like a decent Rhodebar

I was thinking the same thing. I have not had rhode bars very long, but the chicken in the picture is MUCH lighter then mine.

 

[nicalandia]

I was thinking the same thing. I have not had rhode bars very long, but the chicken in the picture is MUCH lighter then mine.

Rhodebar females should be much darker than that, remember they only have one copy of the Barring gene. the males are lighter than them

 

[dretd]

I don't doubt seller at all, but the eggs should only be brown/tinted not olive green or blue. Thats what I meant by muddied water. Many people are selling Rhodebars that lay green or blue eggs that they bought directly from Greenfire. Rhodebars do not lay green or blue eggs.

It interesting you should bring this up. I was looking at Greenfire's website and they have a pretty hen as an example of the breed and she has what I thought was a tiny crest. I thought I was imagining it but now wonder if a Legbar slipped in the breeding pen somewhere along the line (sorry cant make it bigger than a thumbnail):


http://greenfirefarms.com/store/category/chickens/rhodebar/

 

[Makomd]

That does look like a crest, never realized it. I understand what some sellers go through $50 for a female chick and $20 for a male and another $40 for shipping. Raise them for 4-5 months and just to find out they are laying a green or blue egg. I understand trying to justify where they came from, but "where" does not matter against the SOP. Its like calling an Easter Egger an Ameraucana.

As many have stated before a Rhodebar is an Auto-sexing barred Rhode Island Red. Its type and eggs should be that of a RIR. I was to my last stage of breeding to make a "Rhodebar" when it was brought to my attention that I was missing the "e+" allele and that my birds would not meet the SOP as far as the autosexing. 3 generations of breeding and culling, but if I had called them Rhodebars I would not have been doing any justice to the perseverance of the breed. An expensive mistake, but a mistake indeed.