Plymouth Rock thread!

[Malibu99]

She's the one in my avatar. I love her soo much

What cute things do your Rocks do?

 

[78Vette]

Ok I see what you are talking about now. I am still trying to learn all this stuff. I will see it I have a better picture. Thanks for the info.

I'm sorry I wasn't clear. It wasn't the wattle color, but the plumage color I meant. A full body shot without an angle to it in natural light, not bright sunlight or red light, is best to tell color. Males and females are usually quite different in color because a pullet carries one barring gene and a cockerel carries two barring genes, making him appear much lighter, overall.


This is what I was trying to see--the difference in this 6 week old cockerel and his sister. When trying to sex by a photo, pictures that are too close are not best for the job.

 

[BackyardCoop]

Here is our 5 week old that I just call 'Big Papa' right now =)

 

[78Vette]

Ok I found a shot of him/her.

 

[Fred's Hens]

Pullet

 

[78Vette]

Pullet

Ok good my wife did not want a roo. Is it normal for them to have so much red in there face?

 

[Fred's Hens]

Well, photos can fool you. Angles, coloration rendering, and other difficulties.

Here's the give a way with most hatchery BR. The pullets sometimes have a black wash on the front of their legs. Trouble is, some cockerels do as well, or neither do. Cockerels tend to be bright white and pullets darker and spottier. But the best way to sex them is the early red comb and red wattles at 6 weeks on the cockerels. But even then, one or two slip through the sex ID machine.

 

[78Vette]

I know what you are saying. I dont mind either way. She is a good pullet so thats what counts. And is she just happens to be a he well he is a good rooster lol.

 

[speckledhen]

Ok, that's better! In that photo, looks like a pullet to me, but Fred already said that. See, when you get an extreme close up of the head, any color at all in the comb/wattles is intensified and any pink in the base of the comb looks like more than it is. So, if that is a pure BR, it's a pullet. That's the only qualifier I would add, since you saw my Phoenix/BR cross cockerels in the pic I posted a few posts back have dark wash down their legs as well. Interestingly enough, some of my crosses have had better barring than some hatchery "pure" BRs, though the Phoenix crosses obviously didn't.

I've had one pullet who was ID'd as a cockerel on BYC over and over again, almost up to 12 weeks of age because of her super light coloring, as well as the fact that she didn't have much black at all on her leg fronts. The first clue she was a pullet was her comb wasn't enlarging.

 

[78Vette]

Thanks for the info. I realy like the way my BR act so I am going to get some more. So the more I can learn the better.