BARRED ROCK EXPERTS!!!!........not growing wing feathers(PICS ADDED)

[speckledhen]

In the last three photos, that one standing tall is a pullet. It's hard to judge well in red lighting, but when you see a wing with one bar near the end as well as dark leg fronts, you have a BR girl. You need light without the red.

 

[Jenna730]

In the last three photos, that one standing tall is a pullet. It's hard to judge well in red lighting, but when you see a wing with one bar near the end as well as dark leg fronts, you have a BR girl. You need light without the red.

 

[Jenna730]

Are these any better? I can try to get closer. I’m new and was told they were black sexlinked then found out that the Roo father was Barred Rock so they can’t be sex linked correct? Mom is maybe a RIR?

 

[speckledhen]

In the first picture top left, you have a cockerel on left, pullet on right. If you go by that pair, you may be able to determine sex of the others yourself. Males are mostly faded black-looking, almost silvery-black, while pullets look very black with black color down the leg fronts. Male head spots are large and/or scattered with a band of "frosting" that goes sort of around the back of the neck, usually, while females' head spots have more disctinct edges, but you cannot go on one trait alone. Hatchery stock is easier to sex than heritage/breeder stock. Yours is pretty typical hatchery type.

 

[Avettfan]

While I’m new to chicks, we had one (of 4) that was VERY slow to feather. By week 2 the chick had very short (stumpy) wing feathers and just the beginning of tail feathers. Comb had some color by then too. Unfortunately it was easy to tell that we had a roo.