barred rock chickens 2.5 months

[shay20]

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Ahhh that is true.

And that second pic yep they all look like pullets.

 

[Dustin Biery]

The wash on the legs is usually a hatchery trait. I have raised and shown barred rocks from a breeder and their legs were yellow.

 

[shay20]

See I usally go by there color, females darker than the males.

here is a pic of mine, you can see the male is lighter .

 

[speckledhen]

Here is an older document about sexing BRs as chicks and it does mention the leg wash of the pullets, but as I said and as Dustin said, that isn't always the best way to sex them since some lines just dont have that.

Historical Document
Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station

SEX IDENTIFICATION IN PUREBREDS
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS

It had long been recognized that the size of the light head
spots in Barred Plymouth Rocks varied in the two sexes. The
males tend to have larger headspots and the females to have
darker colored legs. However, this method has not been sufficiently
accurate to be of much commercial value.
Quinn and Knox (1939) attempted to separate the sexes of
Barred Plymouth Rocks by means of the intensity of the black
pigment in the down and legs. In different lots of chicks they
report 83.5, 86.1 and 91.8 percent accuracy.
Jerome (1939) describes a method of sex identification in
Barred Plymouth Rocks based upon the regularity of the outline
of the head spot rather than the size of the spot. Those chicks
having headspots irregular in outline and scattered in appearance
are males while the females tend to have headspots with
more regular outlines. The author claimed an accuracy of 90
percent or better when considering only the headspot and 95
percent if the color of the legs was included in the consideration.
The Canadian Department of Agriculture (Anonymous 1941)
issues an excellently illustrated bulletin describing the method.
It is stated in the bulletin that the method “is widely practiced
in Barred Rock chicks by commercial chick sexers.” Sex identification
is based upon outline of head spot, color of legs and
shade of down color. .​

 

[kandoos]

100 % pullets

 

[catlinchick]

These are my two BR Roos, they are 8 weeks and have wattle development already