Barred Rock Hen or Rooster?

[BYNewChick2017]

This is our Barred Rock approx 10 weeks old. Is this a hen or a rooster

 

[junebuggena]

That's not a purebred bred Barred Rock. That looks like a black sexlink cockerel.

 

[sylviethecochin]

x2.

 

[Mary's Backyard Chickens]

That's not a purebred bred Barred Rock. That looks like a black sexlink cockerel.

No, not exactly. Our Plymouth Rocks (Barred Rocks) look exactly like it. This is a pic of a Black Sex Link cockerel:

This is a pic of a purebred barred rock pullet.

Looks like your chicken is a PURE BRED BARRED ROCK PULLET.

 

[BYNewChick2017]

Thank You all for the quick response, I am new at this and we only have one Barred Rock and nothing to compare it too for sexing.

 

[Poultrybreeder]

No, not exactly. Our Plymouth Rocks (Barred Rocks) look exactly like it. This is a pic of a Black Sex Link cockerel:
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This is a pic of a purebred barred rock pullet.
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Looks like your chicken is a PURE BRED BARRED ROCK PULLET.

x2 have a great day and God Bless!!!

 

[Mary's Backyard Chickens]

x2 have a great day and God Bless!!!

Same to you @Poultrybreeder !

 

[junebuggena]

No, not exactly. Our Plymouth Rocks (Barred Rocks) look exactly like it. This is a pic of a Black Sex Link cockerel:
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This is a pic of a purebred barred rock pullet.
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Looks like your chicken is a PURE BRED BARRED ROCK PULLET.

He's just not old enough to have grown in his male specific feathers. That comb is much too red and developed for a pullet of that age. Black sexlink cockerels look just like Barred Rock pullets when they are young, the tell is in the early comb development and then the male specific feathers come in.

 

[Poultrybreeder]

Same to you @Poultrybreeder !

Thank You!

 

[sylviethecochin]

In human sex chromosomes, men have an x and a y chromosome and women have two x-chromosomes. The y-chromosome is shorter, and so men have fewer genes than women do. (One example is the balding gene. If men get one, they're bald, because they only have one copy of that gene. If women get one, the other gene they have on their second sex chromosome might be not-bald. Because not-bald is dominant, the woman won't be bald. That is why women are less likely to be bald.)

In birds, that is reversed. Hens have the v and w chromosomes, whereas the roosters have two w chromosomes. The barred-gene is on the w-chromosome. Because of that, any pure-breed barred rooster will have two copies of the barring gene, leading to the pale, pretty double-barred rooster below: (Stoled from the internet)

Any barred hen, however, can only have one copy of the barring gene. She would look like your rooster in your original post.

Now, a rooster can have one copy of the barring gene--if he was fathered by a rooster without a barring gene, and his mother was barred. That would leave him colored like a traditional hen.

If your chicken above is indeed at ten weeks old, then comb development alone assures me he is male. That means that he cannot be a pure barred-rock because if he was, then he would look like the rooster above.

Hope this helps!