Breed help needed...

[Zoquiryi]

I bought what was suppodesly a barred rock peep. she is now 11 weeks old, and still doesn't have any stripes. however, she has some small brown specks on her chest. she has a black beak and black legs. is she really a barred rock, or something else?

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

A picture would help, but the same thing happened to us. It sounds like your chick is like ours, which is a black sex link. They are a mix between a Barred Rock & a Rhode Island Red, so it may have been mixed in with the pure BRs by mistake. I believe that's what happened with ours. Ours is a very sweet girl, one of my favorites.

 

[Zoquiryi]

okay, thanks for your help!

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

Does it look like this? She looked like our other BR chicks when we first got them, but we knew she was different when her feathers came in.

 

[Zoquiryi]

yea, she actually does look like that, only the feathers came in more so far.

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

Here is a picture of what ours looks like now. Maybe it's not the Barred Rock you hoped for, but I love this girl! Maybe yours will be as sweet as mine is. I actually have her in the pen with some much younger chicks because all of the ones her age got sick and died a while back. She is very sweet to the young chicks. I was told that a black sex link with this coloring is a female, so if yours looks like this, she is a female. The males have some barring on them like Barred Rocks.

 

[Zoquiryi]

Mine is bigger than yours, and almost pure black. She has some brown flecks down the front of her neck. She is really sweet, and currently a house chicken! She stays outside most of the day, and then comes in a night for a few hours. She loves to sit on my lap and watch TV. I don't really care what breed she is, it just hit me that my other chickens were full color by this size, and she's still black - I won't wait for stripes anymore! Thanks for showing me your cute pics.

 

[mom2chicksandpups]

I love mine, too. I have teased my husband that I am going to get diapers for her and the EE that's my avatar so I can let them sleep in the bed with me at night.

I already have a Chihuahua who sleeps glued to my legs at night, which drives my husband crazy!