On the individual feather itself, the bands of white & black should have distinct, straight boundaries. Do you see how the bars on the tail feather forms a "v" or a Chevron, instead of a bar? That's Cuckoo.
That's Cuckoo on your barred rock. He said to go to the next poultry show (October in Chehalis) and look at all the barred classes in bantams. They are truly barred; whereas all large breeds are not (or extremely rarely). His advice was to give up on Barred Rocks and if you must breed them...
Our Fair is about this |...| big. 4,000 people in Wahkiakum County and no traffic signals.
My really quality breeding stock geese and ducks came from Holderread in Corvalis.
http://www.holderreadfarm.com/
Unfortunately, the higher quality Embdems were just starting to molt. He said they'd...
Our fairgrounds were flooded last winter and it took a FEMA project to get them back up on their feet. They fair managers were pressing adults very hard this year to enter every animal we had, since it helps increase attendance and the Fair gets paid primarily based on the number of exhibitors...