What would a Barred Rock x Rhode Island Red look like?

[Cowgirl71]

Thanks for the link! It IS addicting, LOL!

I do have a question. I have a mixed breed rooster, named Reggie. I THINK he's white EE/RIR x NHR. He looks like their "white trimmed red" picture. Would the results be accurate? Or not because he's not a purebred??? Below is a pic of him. He's recovering from molting, and is usually VERY handsome!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Probably not. You might be able to get a general indication but the EE is a mix to start with. EE's are a type, not a breed. It looks like that white EE was dominant white, but you have no idea what else is hidden under the white. The RIR and NHR are very similar, the NHR being a little lighter in color. Generally the same rules should apply to them both, but there are subtle differences and I don't know what they are.

To your basic question, if they are purebred, then you can rely on the results. If they are not purebred, you really don't know what lies beneath. If you cross two purebreds, you know what will be in the 1st generation offspring, but you really don't know what is in the next generation. Too many things can hide in there.

Something else to remember, the results are idealized. It does not consider leakage and other things. An example. Ideally a Black Sex Link hen is solid black. In reality, there is often red leakage so the necks often have some red or gold in them, depending on what color the father was.

The pictures are sort of generalizations too. The Red Sex Link roosters are shown as yellow in the pictures and are called yellow-gold. In reality, they generally have white with certain areas like hackles and saddle feathers exhibit the yellow-gold. The rooster in my photo is Red Sex Link. He is barred, since his mother was a Delaware with sex link barring. But something, and I don't know what, is repressing some of the barring. The picture would show him as fully barred.

 

[mispollitos]

Yeah catdaddy! you finally posted a pic! I'd written to you and requested pictures....Will update my thread with pictures of mine! I'd lost hope and thought they were all roos until a Mexican friend came over Monday and assured me they were in fact all hens!!!! YIPPEE!!!!! That means they are in fact this cross!! Whoop!

 

[mispollitos]

for the op: here's my post about mis pollitos...hoping that they are in all fact br roos x rir hens pullets:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=404660&p=7

 

[RAREROO]

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Im sorry but your friend is mistaken, did you tell him/her how old they were? I could see how they could be mistake for older pullets, but at 9 weeks, with those combs, they are all roosters, even in the chick pics they are obivous roosters.

And Just FYI, even if they were all hens that doesnt mean that they would all be BR roo X RIR hen. But I do agree that since they are roosters and are dark het barred, that they are a cross of something Barred X Nonbarred, so they could be from this cross, but not nessessarily but they are roos, sorry.

 

[horsegooroo15]

I actually have two full blood sisters who are rir x br. One looks pure br but has some buff/red coloring on her neck and is smaller than the other. The bigger one is not as red as a typical rir and has some black feathers mixed in but doesn't have any of the barred coloration I will post pics

 

[Chookarama]

Here ya go, Northern Ireland :
http://www.johnstonspoultry.com/barred.html