Heritage id, dominique or barred rock?

[cybercat]

Thing is you have hatchery stock so YES you can get single combs on rose comb birds. It happens alot with these birds. So you can have pure breds doms but I have to admit you do have rocks in there too.

 

[RAREROO]

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Yep, here's the feathersite page on Barnevelders, http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Barnev/BRKBarnev.html they are supposed to lay dark eggs but I have heard that hatchery Barnevelders don't lay eggs any darker than other breeds.

 

[Year of the Rooster]

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Yep, here's the feathersite page on Barnevelders, http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Barnev/BRKBarnev.html they are supposed to lay dark eggs but I have heard that hatchery Barnevelders don't lay eggs any darker than other breeds.

What about the possibility of it being a Partridge Rock? I don't know the difference between the breeds.

 

[HeatherFeather]

It does look like it could be partridge rock too...not sure how to tell between that and barnevelder. They do have yellow legs, with what looks like black rubbed onto the fronts of the legs and over the toes. I'll try to get some more pics of them.

 

[RAREROO]

Nope, they are Barmevelders, Partridge Rocks, like Partridge Chanteclers, are single laced partridge, Barnevelders are double laced Partridge like your hens.

Here are 2 pics of Birch Run Farm's Partridge Rock hen, she has great coloring, you can see that she as thin black penciling.

http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p223/aspenhilladventures/2009 Chicks/part2.jpg
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p223/aspenhilladventures/2009 Chicks/part1.jpg

Your hen has broader double lacing. Another difference is that Barnies seem to have solid black hackle feathers and Part. Rocks have lighter, penciled hackles.

 

[doublebow]

Pretty birds! I wish I'd come across 'free' birds like that!
Also the leg coloring on the barred rocks and dominiques is different. BR's have yellow and doms have white, I believe.
I got what was supposed to a group of doms last spring and I actually got 2 cuckoo marans and 2 doms and one that looks to be a cross between the two.

 

[NYREDS]

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No, Dominiques have yellow legs also.

 

[smarsh]

barnevelders have a very solid head and nape on them, partridge will patterned onto the head.

 

[cybercat]

Yep not a partridge rock, pattern wrong head on hems are not black. Here is a pick of my PRs you can see the differance.

 

[Year of the Rooster]

Ok. Thanks guys!