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In that case, yes the mother must be a Barred Rock, and the chick must be female. Whether the chick will lay brown eggs or green, I can't say for sure. Since the mother laid brown eggs, the chick inherited a not-blue eggshell gene from her. But the father might or might not have any blue egg...

Barring is a dominant gene on the Z sex chromosome. A rooster has chromosomes ZZ, a hen has ZW. Your rooster does not have barring, so he gives every chick a Z chromosome with no barring. The barred hen would give her Z chromosome (with barring) to her sons, and they will show barring because...