Blue Plymouth Rock

[flygirl1973]

These weren’t from a feed store. If they aren’t BPR’s, please educate me on how you can tell. Do you have to wait until they’re older? When she was sexing them for me, the little boys had the lighter head with some showing the yellow spot (she still looked underneath). They’re not for breeding or showing, just seemed like a cool opportunity since I was there getting my BA’s anyway. The owner Judith from Poultry Hollow here in TN was fairly excited about them. Neat little place. I guess there was a fire 2 years ago and she’s still re-building. And @Ghosty I love your avatar! I”m honestly more of a dog person than anything ...I just want eggs!

 

[keesmom]

These weren’t from a feed store. If they aren’t BPR’s, please educate me on how you can tell. Do you have to wait until they’re older? When she was sexing them for me, the little boys had the lighter head with some showing the yellow spot (she still looked underneath). They’re not for breeding or showing, just seemed like a cool opportunity since I was there getting my BA’s anyway. The owner Judith from Poultry Hollow here in TN was fairly excited about them. Neat little place. I guess there was a fire 2 years ago and she’s still re-building. And @Ghosty I love your avatar! I”m honestly more of a dog person than anything ...I just want eggs!

That's one sign. In true blue Plymouth Rocks both sexes are solid blue. Only vent sexing would work to determine the sex of a chick.

What hatcheries are calling "blue Plymouth Rocks" are blue sex linked birds. Cockerel chicks will have a white head spot (harder to see than in black sex links because of the down color), and will mature to be barred birds. Pullet chicks will be a solid color, no head spot, and be solid blue at maturity.

 

[flygirl1973]

If they mature to be barred birds I will be happy with that. It is disappointing if they really aren’t what I thought them to be, but I like the barred look as all my Australorps are solid black. Solid blue would have been equally as interesting to see the sunlight on their feathers, but the barred feathers will be a nice change. A nice change in all my 4 months experience! Freakin newbies..... Thanks for the education!

 

[Ghosty]

These weren’t from a feed store. If they aren’t BPR’s, please educate me on how you can tell. Do you have to wait until they’re older? When she was sexing them for me, the little boys had the lighter head with some showing the yellow spot (she still looked underneath). They’re not for breeding or showing, just seemed like a cool opportunity since I was there getting my BA’s anyway. The owner Judith from Poultry Hollow here in TN was fairly excited about them. Neat little place. I guess there was a fire 2 years ago and she’s still re-building. And @Ghosty I love your avatar! I”m honestly more of a dog person than anything ...I just want eggs!

Thank you so much, flygirl1973! I love my pups. I have dealt with a lot for them already, and am building a fence for them right now. I'm sorry, I wasn't trying to single you out. My post just came after yours. I'd love to have a few Blue Plymouth Rocks and had been researching them before the blue sex-link thing blew up. I do have 13 Sapphire Gems from Hoover, down from 16. Now I have trouble finding my previous sources online about BPR's, and it just aggravates me a little. I believe BPR are supposed to have yellow legs. I wish the hatcheries would just call their sex-links what they are and not steal names for the sake of sales. Now anyone making a quick blue hybrid is saying it's a Blue Rock Sapphire or a BPR, and I think it confuses others and they make sex-links and follow suit. I'm sure you have great birds no matter what. I love, love my SG's. They are beautiful and lay huge eggs. If she is spot sexing though, it sounds like a sex link.

 

[Ghosty]

Happy 4th, everyone!

 

[MIchickenlady]

I ordered two Plymouth Blue Rocks this Spring 2019 from Townline Hatchery in Holland, MI. They are 9 month old big brown egg laying girls now and both stunning beauties!!

 

[Florida Patty]

Today I was looking at baby chicks at Family Farm and Home and they had a brooder bin labeled
"Rare breed pullets"
"Blue Plymouth Rocks"
I have never heard of them before.
Has anyone on this forum had them before or have them?

I was at our local Rural King today and got 4 of these cuties. Can't wait to see how they get along with the rest of our girls. I'm new at this, so everything is an experiment!

 

[tsnuttall]

Today I was looking at baby chicks at Family Farm and Home and they had a brooder bin labeled
"Rare breed pullets"
"Blue Plymouth Rocks"
I have never heard of them before.
Has anyone on this forum had them before or have them?

No but I looked them up yesterday, as one of the feed stores have chicks coming in on February 7th.

 

[silveraden]

Blue Plymouth Rock is a hybrid of Barred Plymouth Rock hen and Blue Plymouth Rock rooster. In the Philippines, we call it Dominant Blue since most of the blues here came from Dominant CZ, a Czech hatching company.

 

[Frankiegirl]

I have a 13 week old and she is delightful! I am new to the chicken world and have 5 chicks, all different breeds. Got them from family farm and home which sources the birds from Townline hatchery in Michigan where I live. So far she has been a wonderful girl and is solid colored w no barring. Very sweet and calm. Much bigger than my whit leghorn, ee, pearl star leghorn, and Americana. I thought she might be part dinosaur she was so much bigger. Leave it to a newbie chick mama!