Why are all of my chicks hatching white!?

[McChooky]

Wow! So if I wanted some different colored chicks I would have get another roo?

Hopefully your recent batch of chicks has a cockerel you can keep? Your rooster would accept one of them in the flock better than a rooster that's not related. (they'd fight)

 

[RoosterHuggerLiz]

Hopefully your recent batch of chicks has a cockerel you can keep? Your rooster would accept one of them in the flock better than a rooster that's not related. (they'd fight)

I've actually got a couple of Boy's, they don't really fight but occasionally they will "dance"

 

[troyer]

Awesome!! I've got a broody hatching some chicks right now so if one ends up as a cockrell I'll put the old boy to retirement and keep his son with my main flock!! What are the chances of the Son carrying the barring Gene of his barred Rock mother?

He will be barred.

 

[Capricoco]

Awesome!! I've got a broody hatching some chicks right now so if one ends up as a cockrell I'll put the old boy to retirement and keep his son with my main flock!! What are the chances of the Son carrying the barring Gene of his barred Rock mother?

They’ll carry it. This is what that’ll look like;

 

[Capricoco]

To me, that looks like white barring on a light gray chicken, rather than white barring on a white chicken.

Besides barring, do you know what other genes that one has?

He’s a barred rock rooster over a white rock hen, so it is white on white. He only has one copy of barring and one copy of dominant white, so he does have black leakage. This is when he was a juvenile. It’s really more of a light tan color as opposed to gray, but he is what happens when you have a white barred chicken (ghost barring).

 

[Capricoco]

This isn't true, at least in my experience. Though I don't own roosters, my relative does. As soon as breeding season came around, the main rooster killed his own son. Maybe if the roosters were raised together from chicks, it would be a different story.

I think that’s just An issue with an aggressive rooster. Most of the time you can integrate two roosters together.

 

[RoosterHuggerLiz]

Can you post pics of the parents and the chicks?

First image: The roo and his daughter
2: the roo with three of my girls (the main 3 mothers)
3: This latest batch of chicks
4: The RIR hen/mother of the hen in the first picture

 

[RoosterHuggerLiz]

I don't know all of the color genes that the Leghorn rooster carries, but based on what you are saying is happening there is something definite going on. The reason is because the rooster is homozygous dominant white. That means that all the chicks will be white with colored specks in the first generation. If you would breed one of those white rooster offspring to any of the colored hens, statistically half of the chicks should be white with colored specks the same as you are getting now and half of the chicks should be colored. This is a basic explanation of genetics with what you have going on.

Wow! So if I wanted some different colored chicks I would have get another roo?

 

[McChooky]

Barred rocks are an auto-sexing breed.So are Welsummers. (The latter lays a speckled egg)

 

[NatJ]

Actually, the white barring does show up. Here’s what it looks like;

To me, that looks like white barring on a light gray chicken, rather than white barring on a white chicken.

Besides barring, do you know what other genes that one has?