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Blue Bar Ruby Rollers
Blue Bar Ruby Rollers
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Double D
348 posts
Sep 04, 2007
8:54 PM
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Tony, would you say the blue bars in your family of birds are on the hot side?
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Darin Olson
Checkerboard Lofts
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Tony Chavarria
Site Publisher
1615 posts
Sep 04, 2007
9:33 PM
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Hey Darin, I have tended to use the Blue side to bring back stability and control to the Ash Red side when they get really hot (Ash Red to Ash Red).
For me, the Ash Red birds tend to come in to the roll sooner and deeper than the Blues. The Blues can come in at 6 months and later, but then really turn it on and get deeper and be just as hot.
This year, I have seen several Blues coming in early and deep. These are out of some new matings from RRTC-05-73 (great-grandfather 903) (mother 644) to a daughter and 628, one of my best Ash Red hens whose mother is 644 (644 was my deepest and best ever dark check hen, although I probably have several just as good, she is just a sentimental favorite, lol).
I have started to get a couple solid blacks (Blue carrying spread), I have sold a couple of these black birds by special request to one of my customers, however, I did keep one and was flying it.
She was really really hot until recently when it got sick and died. I was heartbroken over this because I was looking forward to trying her in the stock loft.
So the long and short of it would be that I would say both sides are capable of producing equally hot rollers, but the Blue side has historically come in to the best rolling some months after the Ash Red side.
I think Sal E. might say the Blues are the better stuff. He borrowed my 994 Blue Bar foundation cock a few years ago and produced some very nice birds that he is flying and breeding from now.
He is sending me some outstanding offspring this month and I am going to try them on some of my Ruby stock and see what I get.
Darin, what have you noticed?
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FLY ON! Tony Chavarria
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Double D
349 posts
Sep 05, 2007
6:58 PM
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The Blue Bar Hen I got from you has had 6 young this year. Two of those were blue bars just like the hen. The one came in hard, fast, and deep into the roll and became a roll down. I tried everything I could to save the bird, feeding it up, etc. but I eventually had to cull it. The second one didn't seem to like to fly, as if it were scared or something. It was always real nervous and flighty and would never seem to settle down. Again, I tried everything I could to get that bird to fly and it would just go a couple of roof tops over and sit there until the kit came down. Then it would fly back to the loft and trap.
The hen was mated to a red check cock you sent me with that same group.
Any thoughts?
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Darin Olson
Checkerboard Lofts
Last Edited by on Sep 05, 2007 6:59 PM
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