Barred rock, roo or hen? UPDATE!!

[speckledhen]

I'll bet my house cat & my cowboy hat the first one's a pullet.

Hey, NYReds, what size hat you wear, buddy?

 

[BFeathered]

Congratulations

on your lovely roo. Hope he's sweet tempered!

 

[speckledhen]

Did you want him to be a he? I love my BR roosters. They are all three very sweet tempered, just like their daddy, may he rest in peace. I've been fooled a few times by BRs that didnt follow the sexing rules, but only once by a girl I thought was a boy. It's usually the slow maturing cockerels who dont look quite as light as the others that make me think for a brief time that they're pullets. Zane was one of them, actually-sort of an in-between coloring, etc.

 

[DomiHentrix]

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Yeah, I did want him to be a roo. I named him Henry when he was just 4 weeks old

He's the one watching me while the rest eat corn

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v242/yulegirl/IMG_2101.jpg

He is very mild mannered and his father is a big lazy and sweet ol' rooster, he looks just like him so we were glad!

 

[speckledhen]

Excellent!

 

[Ellie]

The sexing guru has spoken... and not lost her winning record!!

Congrats on the rooster. Nice looking young man. I am hoping for one too.

 

[mikarod]

Which one is the sexing guru??? Just for future knowledge!

 

[Chickndaddy]

Speckledhen. Where Barred Rocks are concerned she is our goddess...lol

 

[herechickchick]

GO Cynthia!!!!!!

 

[speckledhen]

Well, I just happened to have some cockerels who did not display any saddle feathers till about the age of the one in the first pic or a bit after. They were there, under the top feathers, but you wouldn't have seen them in a picture from that angle. At that age, BR pullets rarely have combs like that, though.