White over barred cochin..**updated pics**

[marymac]

Is he already named? If not you could name him BlackBard.

 

[Mahonri]

What do his sisters look like.

Are you going to do the cross again? Do it again, PLEASE.

He is just spectacular.

 

[KellyHM]

He's giving me inspiration...I have 2 barred standard Cochin hens and I also have a white standard Cochin cockerel that's about 4 months old...I think I'll put them together. The down side being that the barred hens can only pass the barring to the male offspring.

 

[onthespot]

He looks like pied barred. Do chickens come in pied? I know pied is associated with mottled. Maybe the white daddy is white over mottling that has heavy pied in the line... ??? That is my best guess... and I don't know much about chicken colors or genetics at ALL.

 

[Kev]

That is an extremely interesting bird. AFAIK there are no pied in chickens.. Pied as in pied peafowl- basically separate and more/less random patches of white and colored areas, that is. There is something called pied in chickens but then all birds labeled pied were mostly colored with just white in the tail and a few flights. This rooster does have a "pied pattern" very much resembling that of a pied peafowl.

His chick down pattern does look like how some mottleds start out though. Pied peafowl are born with the pied patches already obvious and feathers match the white/colored patches as they grow up.

You need to sign up at the Coop and then in the genetics section, post pictures of that bird to get opinions from more devoted hobbyist geneticists there(Henk69 and blackdotte do visit here occasionally).

 

[nzpouter]

he's a barred mottle.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

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Werent the original exchequer leghorns pied, thats what seperated them from anconas and I am pretty sure their genetics are different.

 

[Three Cedars Silkies]

He DID look like a mottle when he was hatched. Then as he feathered out, the barring showed up on his wings and he turned pure white with just the barred wings and a little bit in his tail. As he aged, the barring became more like "spots" (mottling) throughout his white feathers.

You can see the mottled hen that is with the three chicks. She WAS in the pen at the time...along with a barred hen, a barred roo, a white cockerel (he was definitely breeding

) and a white hen.

When he first hatched, I thought sure he was Molly's (the mottled hen), but then when I saw the barring and the white, I assumed it was a barred/white cross.

I'll post at the Coop, Kev, and see what they say...and report back.

 

[valentinebaby]

Absolutely gorgeous - makes me want to get a rooster and start experimenting!

 

[Krys109uk]

I've got some youngsters which have one barring gene & are homozygous mottled, well I presume so, their parents were heterozygous mottled & they hatched with the typical restricted down. Some are blue some are black. So far they are feathering up barred but lighter coloured & brighter markings.
My youngsters would not be carrying any type of restrictors of black.