The Rhodebar thread!

[nicalandia]

nicalandia .... What do you make of these two females... ?

http://webpages.charter.net/poetmore/green21wks.jpg

http://webpages.charter.net/poetmore/hambar10dec11.jpg

the female in the center of the pic...


Keith
SC
USA

they are too light colored(orange instead of red) they look like Hampbars(autosexing new Hampshire)..


there is absolutely no reason why a Rhodebar hen should not look like this hen.(source of pic http://www.steepleducks.co.uk/poultry.htm)


after all they can only have one copy of the barring gene, unlike the roosters that have two copies and struggle to keep a good color to them


what I´m seeing on recent GFF Rhodebars hens, they are(to my genetic eyes) Wildtype hens with only one copy of the Columbian restrictor(Co)

here is a RhodebarxLegbar hen cross(not saying the GFF are a Legbar/Rb Cross) this hen is to show what one copy of Co can do to a wildtype(e+) hen...

source http://www.steepleducks.co.uk/poultry.htm

another heterozygous Co hen(Rb/Lb cross)

source http://www.avvz28.dsl.pipex.com/poultry.htm

 

[rc50]

"they are too light colored(orange instead of red) they look like Hampbars(autosexing new Hampshire).."

nicalandia I take that as high praise as they are Hampbars... What i really was wondering is what Co Columbia genes are working in them... ? What Db and what Mh genes... ? ....

thanks a ton

Keith
SC
USA

 

[nicalandia]

"they are too light colored(orange instead of red) they look like Hampbars(autosexing new Hampshire).."

nicalandia I take that as high praise as they are Hampbars... What i really was wondering is what Co Columbia genes are working in them... ? What Db and what Mh genes... ? ....

thanks a ton

Keith
SC
USA

just Columbian thats all(check my previous post), no Mahogany or Db.. Nice hens....

 

[rc50]

thanks...
so you would say they are db+/db+ and mh+/mh+ .. ?

again thanks a ton

Keith
SC
USA

 

[nicalandia]

thanks...
so you would say they are db+/db+ and mh+/mh+ .. ?

again thanks a ton

Keith
SC
USA

thats correct.. they are e+/e+ Co/Co db+/db+ mh+/mh+ B/B(for males, B/- for hens)

 

[rc50]

Thanks for that info ... for me it has not been easy to get good solid info on what genes are there in New Hampshires...

again thanks a ton for your help and info!!!

Keith
SC
USA

 

[nicalandia]

Thanks for that info ... for me it has not been easy to get good solid info on what genes are there in New Hampshires...

again thanks a ton for your help and info!!!

Keith
SC
USA

here you go...

 

[Papa Brooder]

look very similar to mine with different coloring patterns on some of the pullets.

We have Green Fire Rhodebars. We have not started any breeding this time of year and they are in a grow out pen with other breeds. They have just startedlaying but not certain, if so then the egg is light brown. Here are a few of our birds.







This is our second rooster. I think I liks coloration better. However this fellow matured faster than the others and in the course of three days killed two rooster and a hen. That is why he finds mself a bachaler at this time.

 

[Papa Brooder]

Quote: I would say I have 2 hens currently and 3 pullets that will look very close to the hen pictured at the top. I have been promising pictures for a while but keep slacking. I'll really, really, really try to do it this week!

 

[nicalandia]

I would say I have 2 hens currently and 3 pullets that will look very close to the hen pictured at the top.

Awesome...