Barred Rock: cockerel or pullet?

[Ox21167]

Cockerels. Definitely.

 

[lilmillefleur]

I swear someday I will work at The chick bin at TSC just so I can restore balance to the universe

 

[Cyprus]

I swear someday I will work at The chick bin at TSC just so I can restore balance to the universe

SAME!!! I was just thinking this!
(Totally not also 'cause employees know what comes in before the public so I can snatch rare breeds up... )
Plus I can take sick chicks home to try to treat them then either return them to the store or add them to the flock. At my TSC, employees don't pay for the sick chicks if they take them.

 

[Mosey2003]

I'd like to work at our farm store just so the chicks have some **** water

 

[Cyprus]

I'd like to work at our farm store just so the chicks have some **** water

Agreed.
My god, I've been to my store where their feeder is full but their water is dryer than the Senora. And don't even get me started on the heat lamp covering every square inch of a brooder stuffed with 1wk old chicks.

 

[Mosey2003]

Agreed.
My god, I've been to my store where their feeder is full but their water is dryer than the Senora. And don't even get me started on the heat lamp covering every square inch of a brooder stuffed with 1wk old chicks.

Yeah, ours have the floor completely covered with chicks on fine pine shavings that are filling the feeders and waterers, so while there is water there, it's not available. Makes me sick. I have actually applied, they don't want me. Gah

 

[BantammChick]

They look a little bit like dominique cockerels.

 

[ChocolateMouse]

It was all in the feathers for telling the boys from the girls. Those shaggy neck and saddle feathers tell the whole story, really. They're extremely long, droopy and pointy. Also, hens tend to be darker than the roosters in barred birds... But also barred rocks are slightly darker in general to my eyes. I am not familiar with Dominiques at all, but I know barred rocks enough to know that it looked strange and probably wasn't one... But then the comb gives it away beyond that because barred rocks are single comb.

 

[Chickassan]

I'm not sure they even tried to sex those. It isn't like there is just one way to sex dominiques, not really the sort of thing that can get goofed due to breeding either. It can get blurred somewhat but not totally fudged. I think someone at the hatchery was just having one of those days.

 

[Chickassan]

The difference you're seeing is due to the "barring" being more seperated on dominique boys verses the girls. The females don't appear as crisp because theirs is closer together.

Okay, so cockerels. Bummer. What are you basing that conclusion on? Trying to learn.

I suspected early on that they weren't 100% BR. But their white is way whiter and the barring more clean than any of the Dominiques I've had. Maybe BR/Dom cross? That would make them R/r and S/s and explain the rose comb and white(er)ness.