The Rhodebar thread!

[mrshawman]

These traveled approx. 700 Miles USPS 2 day express. I have 3 table top units made by Farm Innovators pro series. I have had very good luck with them, with the exception of 2 hatches. One I lost power. The other was an order from efowl.com. One chick hatched 4 days early, with the turner still inside. none of the other 17 hatched. I caught one of the rbs hatching on video today. This is the link . it is pretty short.

 

[mrshawman]

~~First two hatches (4 olive eggers included)





Male from post#1293





Yesterday and todays hatch

 

[nicalandia]

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They look to be e+/eWh heterozygotes, ranging from wildtype looking to almost wheaten looking, the good news is that I see afew of them have a white headspot, that means you can actually know they are males

 

[malndobe]

I'm curious about the color of a little cockerel I hatched. I posted a photo from just a couple of days older earlier in this thread, but I'll post it again with a side view.





And this was taken yesterday, he's feather out nicely, faster than the other mixed breed chicks I hatched at the same time.



What I'm curious about is his blue/silver tones. The other chicks I see on this thread are various shades of brown. It's this a normal variation in chick down color or ??

 

[nicalandia]

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That seems to be a perfectly good looking male. nice

 

[nicalandia]

Any Updates on the chicks that hatched? would love to see pics of them

 

[mrshawman]

3 Days old

 

[nicalandia]

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Nice, keep the Dark boys with a well defined headspot.. cull the ones you are having a hard time sexing or the ones that are too light

 

[mrshawman]

when can you tell if they are double bar? And how can you tell?

Thanks

 

[nicalandia]

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I think both are double barred