One week old Barred Rock. Black Comb?

[Ilovejesus]

One week old. Has black comb is that normal? Is it a girl or boy? I’m thinking girl. ‘She’ is my favorite. The other 4 just have pail colored combs. ( 3 of them and she had her back turned in one of the pictures)

 

[Gray Farms]

The pictures with the individual chick your holding is not a Barred Rock.

 

[Ilovejesus]

The pictures with the individual chick your holding is not a Barred Rock.

What do you mean it’s not? What else would it be? This is the dad and one of them is the mother. They not Barred Rocks?

 

[Gray Farms]

Chick pattern is wrong for Barred Rock. There are other genes in play there. Either one parent isn't 100% Barred Rock. Or another rooster bred one of the hens. Or they weren't separated long enough for the chicks to be pure. Or I suppose it could be a genetic fluke. But that chicks pattern indicates it didn't get the barring gene.

 

[Ilovejesus]

Oh wow. Ok.
I got them from a lady she said they were Barred Rocks. She had them separated from the specked Sussex.
I used to have a specked Sussex Rooster but we culled him because he was not nice to the girls, he would chase and force himself on them. I don’t think he could even breed the “Barred Rocks” ever time he would try he would fail but maybe could it be mixed with Him then?

 

[Gray Farms]

Hens can hold the semen from a rooster breeding them for up to 3 months and fertilize their eggs. So my best guess is that she may not have had them separated long enough for the chicks to be 100% pure.

 

[Ilovejesus]

Wow I thought it was only 2 weeks! It was probably our Specked Sussex Rooster actually got in there lol. He didn’t fail that one time. Thank you so much I learned a lot!

I read that if a Barred hen and a solid rooster cross it makes like a sex link, I wonder if that is why it dark.

It’s so cute either way. I hope it turns out to be a girl.

 

[Gray Farms]

Barred hen crossed to most solid colored roosters will make Sexlinks "won't work with white though". So if in fact the father was a Speckled Sussex and mother was a Barred Rock. You should have black pullets and barred cockerels with red/spangled leakage. I don't claim to be an expert with Sexlinks however. I just have some basic knowledge of how to breed them. Sexlinking has never really interested me much so I've never "dove" into the genetic "pool" of breeding Sexlinks.

 

[Ilovejesus]

Ok that it nice to know, That is awesome though. I didn’t know that is how sex links are made. Thank you so much!!

 

[Gray Farms]

Glad to help, post pics in a few weeks when its feathers come in. Interesting to see how its pattern turns out.