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Barred Rock, hen or rooster?

post #1 of 11
8/15/12 at 3:15pm
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Our chicks are 3 months old and the barred rock has always been a little bigger and more aggressive.  This morning I woke up thinking, "What the h*** is that noise?!?!"  After some searching, I realized our BR was cock-a-doodle-doing!  I then read that some hens will do that also.  Can someone more experienced than I tell if our hen is actually rooster?  Thanks for any input!

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post #2 of 11
8/15/12 at 3:20pm

Looks like a rooster to me. Sometimes when there is no rooster in your flock a hen will crow to state dominance as she is the alpha hen. But he looks like a rooster. Look at his hackle and saddle feathers they will be pointed that is a characteristic of a rooster.

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narragansett, black spanish,, easter eggers, bantam EE, d'uccle mille fleur, d'uccle buff columbian ,newhampshire, RIR, barred/columbian rock, buff brahma bantam, golden sebrite,  welsummer,  pheonix, dark brahma,  Black Australorp, black langshan, buff rock, silver laced wyandotte,buff braham, Black cochin, cochin x,

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post #3 of 11
8/15/12 at 3:21pm

that looks like a blk sex link not a barred rock and yes that is a cockerel 

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post #4 of 11
8/15/12 at 3:23pm
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that looks like a blk sex link not a barred rock and yes that is a cockerel 

Agree, it's a Black Sex Link cockerel.

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post #5 of 11
8/15/12 at 3:24pm

Not a Barred Rock, but certainly is a cockerel!!!

 

 

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post #6 of 11
8/15/12 at 3:42pm
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Thanks, I thought it was probably a rooster.  Based on much younger pics I had posted previously, the general consensus was a BR, so I assumed that's what he was.  Now I'm off to research black sex-link.  One of these days I'll figure out exactly what I have, lol.  Thanks again!

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post #7 of 11
8/16/12 at 6:00am

Without seeing the females of this cross, in other words, the females hatched with him, there's no way to say for certain that the cross was a sex link cross.  Sex linking is mating in a deliberate cross in order to sex the chicks at hatch.  If you put a red (gold) rooster over a barred hen, the resultant chicks can be sexed at hatch.  The male chicks will have a head spot and will eventually feather out similar to their barred mother, with red-gold leakage, however.  The female chicks will not have a head spot but as they age, their all black fuzz will give way to red-gold leakage in the head, neck and breast area, with the red coming from their red father, of course.

 

For certain, your cockerel is a barred cross of some kind.  It is a mix.  With precise, it is impossible to say exactly what was crossed to make him.

 

 

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post #8 of 11
8/18/12 at 4:43pm
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All these chicken breeds are very interesting and maybe a little confusing.  :)  I looked back at pics of when he was little and he was solid black, no white spot, which I had also read was on black sex-linked roos.  He was the only black one in the bin, so we grabbed him just cuz he was different.

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post #9 of 11
8/18/12 at 4:45pm

Very handsome fella wink.png

 

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post #10 of 11
8/18/12 at 4:52pm
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Looks like a rooster to me. Sometimes when there is no rooster in your flock a hen will crow to state dominance as she is the alpha hen. But he looks like a rooster. Look at his hackle and saddle feathers they will be pointed that is a characteristic of a rooster.

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