my barred rocks ?

[Cuban Longtails]

Okie, it is possible Sandhill used some orpingtons or even marans in their barred rock line but they really should have yellow legs and yellow skin. They may have crossed in other breeds to bring up their size, there's no telling. I'm sure they have a reason as they are preserving breeds. Maybe your friend got a batch of mis-marked chicks?

 

[okiehen]

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It ok hijack away

 

[okiehen]

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Cuban, she said she got barred rocks, her picture dont show there legs and she didnt answer yes or no on hers ( leg color )she just said they were pet / production .

 

[speckledhen]

Even production/pet quality BRs should always have yellow legs, always. THere are varying degrees of color intensity, but the color must be yellow.

One thing that bothers me is that an entire bunch of birds got the white legs. If one or two in a huge hatch came out with white legs, you might say they were throwbacks to something bred in at one time or a fluke, but when all of them show up with the wrong leg color, then I'd consider that a crossbreed. Even if someone adds in blood from another breed for some reason, they still have to cull heavily to get the birds back to their correct standard. If they are very often popping up with wrong traits, then they did not cull heavily, IMO, and you can't really consider that line of birds pure. I hope I said all that right and it makes sense, LOL. I dont consider myself a breeder and certainly not a genetics expert, by any means.

 

[ChooksChick]

So now I'm confused- some time back I had commented on a pic of a BR someone posted, where I questioned the black on the front of the yellow legs. Mine are just yellow, and the black drew my attention as being odd for a BR.

Several folks corrected me saying the pullets have black on the fronts of their legs over yellow. Mine have none, and I decided mine were wrong. Is this called dusky yellow? Black over the fronts?

 

[speckledhen]

The black wash down the leg fronts of BR pullets isn't always there. It isn't something that has to be there and some lines of BR pullets never get that. It's not required, per standard, in other words. It's most common in hatchery stock, I'm told. It is one way to tell the boys from the girls, when considered along with the headspot and down color.

 

[Cuban Longtails]

Pullets and young Hens usually have a black wash down the front of their legs. It's not solid black, more of a shading. Males should be completely yellow, no black at all. There's nothing wrong with not having the black wash on a pullet/hen, it just makes them harder to sex when they're babies.

SpeckledHen beat me to it.