The Rhodebar thread!

[chickenbelle]

Morning all! I had electricity issues and incubator problems during a hatch of Rhodebars last year, but managed to get one boy. He has grown into a beautiful cockerel, so I followed what many of you were doing with the mahogany color type and put him over five of my Heritage Reds. I had three little blonde chicks which should be male. I had five that appeared more of the red/brown type, but had a faded fuzzy striping on their back. These also had a dark spot on their heads. Then ONE of the chicks came out the way I had hoped for a female....with the nice chipmunk looking stripe and good coloring.

However, two weeks later, they are not feathering out the way I anticipated so I'm not sure how to choose my breeder females. The five that appeared to not be the female type I was seeking, are feathering a little better. The one I thought would be my perfect female is feathering in black with brown flecks.

Pics of a couple are below. Tell me what you think. I do have more in the incubator, but I need more guidance on who to keep as my breeders.

The four chicks who turned out to be iffy are feathering in like this. All that white!!

This was the one I hatched that I thought was the food female, but she is feathering all black.

This is the same one -- you can see her good stripe on her back.

My male.

Some of the red hens in the parent stock.

The cockerel again -- He has good coloring. Only black on him is in his tail. I'd like a little more mahogany color in the lower breast area.


Do I keep any of those? Try again with the next hatch?

 

[melroseladi]

Morning all! I had electricity issues and incubator problems during a hatch of Rhodebars last year, but managed to get one boy. He has grown into a beautiful cockerel, so I followed what many of you were doing with the mahogany color type and put him over five of my Heritage Reds. I had three little blonde chicks which should be male. I had five that appeared more of the red/brown type, but had a faded fuzzy striping on their back. These also had a dark spot on their heads. Then ONE of the chicks came out the way I had hoped for a female....with the nice chipmunk looking stripe and good coloring.

However, two weeks later, they are not feathering out the way I anticipated so I'm not sure how to choose my breeder females. The five that appeared to not be the female type I was seeking, are feathering a little better. The one I thought would be my perfect female is feathering in black with brown flecks.

Pics of a couple are below. Tell me what you think. I do have more in the incubator, but I need more guidance on who to keep as my breeders.

The four chicks who turned out to be iffy are feathering in like this. All that white!!

This was the one I hatched that I thought was the food female, but she is feathering all black.

This is the same one -- you can see her good stripe on her back.

My male.

Some of the red hens in the parent stock.

The cockerel again -- He has good coloring. Only black on him is in his tail. I'd like a little more mahogany color in the lower breast area.


Do I keep any of those? Try again with the next hatch?

I am seeing the same thing in my F1's that are about 4ish weeks old. Can you tell gender or make a guess at gender yet? My 3 dark ones are looking female and my other lighter ones are looking male, at this point. We have been having some good discussions on the F1,F2 thread with pics of some of the F1's.

My plan at this point is to breed my darkest chicks to get that good dark coloring from the HRIR back to HRIR to help set in the type of the HRIR then breed back to RB. I am also going to breed some of my darker F1's back to RB just to get some auto-sexed pullets for sale to help with the feed bill while I am working on this project.

Right now I have 7 older F1's with 3 being dark. I have pics on the other thread. My second batch I have 12 with majority being dark stripes and darker down.

Is your RB cockerel from Papa Brooder stock?

Penny

 

[RedRidge]

Also where are your hrir from? You will get much different results than Penny and i if they are a different line or. .. production Reds. They do not appear from the angle I can see to be heritage birds but it could be the angle. I mention this because there will be other genetics involved if they are not hrir bred true. This is probably why you got some yellow chicks.
If that's the case you will may more true eWh and less ey

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

Man our Rhodebars are laying like crazy. Both pens up and going.

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

Man our Rhodebars are laying like crazy. Both pens up and going.

That's what they're supposed to do, YAY!

I've heard this from many people and that's why I got so interested in them. I just have a pair and the pullet lays 6 per week consistently.

 

[chickenbelle]

Also where are your hrir from? You will get much different results than Penny and i if they are a different line or. .. production Reds. They do not appear from the angle I can see to be heritage birds but it could be the angle. I mention this because there will be other genetics involved if they are not hrir bred true. This is probably why you got some yellow chicks.
If that's the case you will may more true eWh and less ey

My RIRs are definitely heritage and are not orange productions. We have been raising them for a while for type and they are show winning/lined birds. The originals came from a breeder a few hours away. My cockerel is from Papa Brooder.

What is the name of the forum with the pics of everyone's F1's?

 

[Joshua G]

I have some day old pairs and trios I am hatching and selling this spring. They are not the genetically improved as we haven't done enough generations of those to get back to purebred autosexing yet. But these are pure Rhodebars and are easily sexed at hatch.
I live less than an hour north of you. If you are interested in pairs or trios just pm me for details and to get on the waiting list.

Thanks, I will PM when I want some.
Right now I am trying Barred Rocks for my first time so we'll see how it goes.

 

[melroseladi]

My RIRs are definitely heritage and are not orange productions. We have been raising them for a while for type and they are show winning/lined birds. The originals came from a breeder a few hours away. My cockerel is from Papa Brooder.

What is the name of the forum with the pics of everyone's F1's?

I thought he was a Papa Brooder cockerel, he looks a lot like mine.

Here is a pic of one of my dark chipmunk stripe F1's next to a HRIR chick that is a few weeks older then the F1, Red on the bottom and F1 on top



Penny

 

[Cynthia12]

What happens if you breed a RIR roo to a Rhodebar hen?

 

[melroseladi]

What happens if you breed a RIR roo to a Rhodebar hen?

I am sure Marvin can answer this question with more accuracy then I can but I believe that only the males would be single barred and the females would not. You would then have to cross the F1 male to a RB female to get any male RB with double barring. I think that is how it would go but I wouldn't take that to the bank, lol.

Penny