Rural Gardening: My new project, 1 by Fla_Chick

Fla_Chick wrote:
Im just starting a new project and Im pretty excited. I got several dozen blue rock eggs earlier in the year and hatched out a few really nice chicks. Ended up with 2 gorgeous roos, 2 blue pullets, and 2 splash pullets. Ive been reading a lot about barred rock genetics. From what Im understanding, a barred rock roo over solid colored hens will give you all barred babies, but a solid (splash, or blue) roo over barred rock hens will give you solid (blue, black, splash) pullets and barred roos. So not only is that sex linked, where you can tell the girls from the boys immediately, but, since my fru fru splash and blue girls seem to think all they have to do is sit around and look pretty, they don't lay well at all. However, my barred girls are work horses. So Ive been collecting eggs from my blue roo and barred girls, and have them in the incubator. I am really excited to see the first hatch from this and see if what I think should happen will. This is my blue roo. He's only 6 months old, so I hope he grows a tail!