The Rhodebar thread!

[Rocky Rhodes]

I am looking for a critique of this Rhodebar pullet, I was finally able to get a couple of decent photos of her.

 

[RICHIEBARKER72]

This may be a dumb question but if you could find HRIR bantams could you breed to get Rhodebar bantams

 

[nicalandia]

I am looking for a critique of this Rhodebar pullet, I was finally able to get a couple of decent photos of her.

thats a cockerel you have right there, did he looked like a pullet at hatch? becuase if he did then he may be a single barred male, he does have nice coloring and uniform barring..

 

[nicalandia]

This may be a dumb question but if you could find HRIR bantams could you breed to get Rhodebar bantams

thats not dumb, thats actually a cool breeding project, and yes you have all of the genetic material to create bantam Rhodebars

 

[RICHIEBARKER72]

I found some HRIR bantams so I may try it

 

[Rocky Rhodes]

thats a cockerel you have right there, did he looked like a pullet at hatch? becuase if he did then he may be a single barred male, he does have nice coloring and uniform barring..

How can you tell it is a cockerel? Yes it looked like a pullet at hatch. It is about 15 weeks old. It does have a large comb and wattles, but the mother hen has a large comb and wattles. The tail feathers are solid colored and have a green sheen. The tail is the only place that it has no barring. If this is a cockerel, it is the only one that I have hatched that looked like this. The rest have been a lot lighter colors, like this one.

 

[nicalandia]

The tail feathers are solid colored and have a green sheen.

This right here tells me the chick in question is a Male, let him/her mature and get back to us, I would thank you for that

 

[Rocky Rhodes]

I was suspicious of it's tail. I will post more pics as he matures. I have a lot more young pullets and cockerels and will be looking for advice on them to. I really want to improve on the birds that I have, and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[nicalandia]

I was suspicious of it's tail. I will post more pics as he matures. I have a lot more young pullets and cockerels and will be looking for advice on them to. I really want to improve on the birds that I have, and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

well I have a soft spot for Single barred males, they have such deep color..

 

[Rocky Rhodes]

I have been chasing chickens all over my property trying to get some good photos. They seem to know when I am about to snap a photo, because they take off at that exact moment. With a little persistence I was able to get a couple. These are about 12-13 weeks old.


The one in the second photo has an odd coloration to me.