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    The Plymouth Rock Breeders thread

    Cracking Male, yes a few issues with some but it looks like you have enough to make a great start. Jealous....
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    The Plymouth Rock Breeders thread

    Hi John Farmer, I love your birds, big with style, I'm sure with a little work they will be great? A couple of pics of my 2013 hatch.
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    Plymouth Rock thread!

    HI Mitch Interesting post you have written, its seems to me you are trying to achieve what most breeders are striving towards? breeding beautiful but useful birds. But If the SOP isn't followed you may as well breed hybrids with the points you are looking for? the standard is there so every...
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    Plymouth Rock thread!

    Hi Some of my youngsters, I have 40+ but these are the oldest. Pullets and roosters and the father.
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    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    Hi I have it too, it a must for every serious breeder get a copy and read it again and again.
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    Plymouth Rock thread!

    HI A picture of my cockerel at 11 months, he as been indoors since last June hence the loss of colour in his legs and beak but this will be back in a month. He is very bloody, fighting with another cockerel yesterday he flew over the fence somehow? He lost quite a few flight feathers in the...
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    Barred Rocks Good Shepard Poulty Ranch

    Hi All I have just started a site on Plymouth Rocks www.barredplymouthrock.com please feel free to send pictures and comments also on facebook under the name Barred Rocks. Cheers Britrock
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    Barred Rocks Good Shepard Poulty Ranch

    Hi Jeff I have one, he is a different line in my strain, not used him yet but he hatched the same day as the light in the other picture. Comb needs improvement plus his shape needs some work but otherwise quite a nice boy.
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    Barred Rocks Good Shepard Poulty Ranch

    Hi This is my boy heading this months breeding pens, he was hatched on 7th May last year. He is treading the pullets well his first batch are all fertile in the incubator now. Your Rocks are very different to UK Rocks here they mature reasonably quickly, I do like the second one.
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    poultry Genetics book

    Hi If you can get a copy? 'Creative Poultry Breeding' Dr. Clive Carefoot Difficult to get but worth it, it's the bible for breeders wanting to know how to get to the Perfect bird (No such thing) quicker. A lot on inbreeding and selection, it's a given you know how to look after...
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    Inbreeding and Line-Breeding Poultry

    Hi The chances are they will and should be related. Breed them together but hatch more than 3 chicks, 40 would be better. Choose the best cockerel and a couple of pullets and breed son to mother and father to daughter, the rest sell so you will not be tempted to breed from them or give a good...
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    Plymouth Rock thread!

    Hi Barred Rocks are Black with a barring gene added producing a barred chicken. Black chickens often have slate coloured legs, the barring gene has a linked gene which takes away most of the slate colour then modifies the leg colour to yellow. This is the same with the blues except the white...
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    Bob Blosl's Heritage Large Fowl Thread

    Hi Bob Loving this thread, I'm with you on the breeds and colour front. These are the figures for Large fowl numbers from 75% who answered on breeding numbers. Colour Males Females Barred 50 111 Buff 20 74 Columbian 6...
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    Plymouth Rock thread!

    Hi Egghead-Jr I haven't hatched any yet and if I'm honest I don't know much about them. Tom gave them to me because he's making room for more Barred. The black pullet he gave me is from his barred stock which I have with a barred male. The splash cockerel will give me all Blues I think? I will...
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    Plymouth Rock thread!

    Hi a couple of pictures of Blues LF and an bantam cockerels, both winners and both were owned by Tom Newbould. He no longer breeds Blues concentrates on Barreds I have his Blue bantams, Splash Cock, blue and a black pullet. I think all Rocks legs are naturally a slate blue colour and it's the...
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