Good Shepard Barred Rock Pullet?

[DMRippy]

I am glad it is not just me

I will look at the leg tomorrow..... forgot that part....

 

[StormyMoon]

They don't look like Barred rocks to me

 

[DMRippy]

I can't help you there. I have had a couple that did the same thing, just didn't finish. Here is a comparison pic. cockerel and pullet. See the narrower barring on the cockerel? If your's have the same barring width, and look the same color when side by side, their are both the same sex, males. ...stan

Thanks that helps, but the barring difference is subtle..... I see it but very slight to me. Tomorrow I will try to get pics of the hackles against paper so we can look at the hackles and see if they are pointed or round. And the legs.....

 

[DMRippy]

They don't look like Barred rocks to me

They are heritage breed.... they will not look like hatchery Rocks that are common.

 

[fried green eggs]

Have you wormed them?

 

[StormyMoon]

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Oh ok and the legs are skin color in the heritage breed?

I have some girls that have skin color legs and some with dark yellow legs.

But the barring in mine seem to be all the same. I just never seen them with such tiny barring before like in yours.

 

[DMRippy]

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Oh ok and the legs are skin color in the heritage breed?

I have some girls that have skin color legs and some with dark yellow legs.

But the barring in mine seem to be all the same. I just never seen them with such tiny barring before like in yours.
Yellow Legs.... all BR should have yellow legs.

 

[DMRippy]

Have you wormed them?

I did worm the small one about 2 weeks ago and again today.... I don' know how it could have worms, never been on dirt or outside even.

 

[Malibu99]

My pullet has a dark wash down her legs. I'm going with two cockerels. Cockerels have a double barring gene, therefore making the cockerels lighter in appearance.:3

 

[Fred's Hens]

Oh ok and the legs are skin color in the heritage breed?

I have some girls that have skin color legs and some with dark yellow legs.

But the barring in mine seem to be all the same. I just never seen them with such tiny barring before like in yours.

The birds pictured are true, heritage, Barred Rocks. Hatchery stock does not have the crisp, tight ringlet barring of a true Barred Rock. The difference is so stunning that folks used to seeing hatchery quality BR can be taken aback, a bit. As for yellow legs, the legs typically yellow up later on a heritage, true to type fowl. Growth is slooooow and feathering is slooooooow on a heritage fowl. The simply grow and develop much, much slower, up to twice as long.

I've got both hatchery quality birds and true, heritage BR and the difference is as if they are from two different planets. They simply aren't the same bird.

The "rules" used in sexing hatchery quality birds often just don't apply when trying to sex Full Bred, heritage, true BR.

Hope that helps.