Blue rocks

[Katy]

Can't wait until mine are that old...I'm jealous....I don't have any blacks!!

 

[halo]

Katy, I had none in my first hatch. Wasnt until the third batch that I got a couple of blacks. I love em!

 

[Katy]

My oldest ones are almost 6 weeks and I just hatched another 5 this week.

 

[halo]

I cant wait til I can hatch my own.....Im afraid Ill be hatching all that I get.

 

[ParkerVA]

I have a question, what is the leg color standard for blue rocks? I noticed in the picture that EweSheep posted that the rooster had yellow legs and the hens had a different color. Can they be different?

I had wondered about the difference between the Blue Rocks and the Blue Orps and how you would tell the difference easily. I know body type should be different in adults, but with chicks, didn't know how you could tell. Always thought that Rocks had yellow legs, so had assumed that would be the way to tell the difference.

Seeing the pictures here has confused me!

 

[halo]

The rocks, according to the standard, have either yellow legs or dusky yellow. If they are dusky yellow, they are gray in the front, yellow on the bottom and in back of the legs. The chicks are pretty easy to tell apart, the rocks have a lot of creamy on them; the orps seem more solid colored. As they are growing, the orps are bigger than the rocks. And the blue is different, also. The rocks seem to have a clearer blue color, when they stand next to each other.

 

[Katy]

I've got one blue orp in with the six week old rocks and he's much bigger already than the rocks are. And like Halo said the blues are different.

 

[drom]

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Their feathers look like velvet. I'd never seen them before. They are beautiful

 

[turnerstar31]

wow they are very pretty i can not wait until i get some blue colored chickens. I have some blue cochins and can not wait until they are feathered out.

 

[EweSheep]

Thank you Drom!