Plymouth Rock thread!

[DMRippy]

But what makes them a white rock and not say a white rhode island red or white barred rock.

Body type makes a rock a rock. White barred rocks would not show any barring and I am sure there are lots of them floating around.

 

[brahmabreeder]

Are the hatchery birds? I know some white rocks are dominate white and will hide other colors like barring. My understanding the best whites are recessive white and silver based.

The birds were suppose to be white leghorns but we were sent the Plymouth rocks. They were ordered from a guy in Florida via eBay. I don't think they are hatchery birds. I was told he gets like $20 a pop but who knows.

 

[cbnovick]

Hi Robert, I just posted over in the Chicken State University thread...some Barred Rock 10 month old pullets for review/comparison/critique. I uploaded lots of pics. they are of the "Imperial ringlet" strain from Woeppel/Reese breeding.
thanks

 

[speckledhen]

But what makes them a white rock and not say a white rhode island red or white barred rock.

As I understand it, a Rhode Island White is completely different breed from a Rhode Island Red.

White Rock is a Plymouth Rock in a white color. A Barred Rock is a Plymouth Rock in the barred color pattern. There is technically no such thing as a "white barred rock", though white is a confounding complicated color to me. Plymouth Rock is the breed. White, blue, black, barred, buff are all color varieties of the breed.


A breed is not just the color, but the body type, comb type, eye color, leg color, egg color, etc.

The barring gene can be hidden to a degree in other colors. My blue Orp in my avatar produced barred sons on occasion-his sickle feathers showed "striping", indicating a barring gene from way back in his ancestry when Sandhill Preservation reportedly bred in blue Rocks for new blood in their blue Orp lines. Hence, an occasion yellow legged chick would show up, or a cockerel with barring in his tail feathers. Once, we even got an entirely barred male.

 

[DMRippy]

Black is not a recognized color in Rocks, Partridge and Silver Penciled are 2 others that come to mind.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

Black is not a recognized color in Rocks, Partridge and Silver Penciled are 2 others that come to mind.

You are correct, blacks are not recognized in LF Plymouth Rocks, however, the blacks are recognized in the bantam size. I am in the process of developing a line of LF blacks as you know....not that the APA will recognize them

 

[ashandvine]

Just back from the Poultry Congress. Erik's birds did very well and the birds being shown were great. WOW

 

[jodyb]

Try changing food. Do you free range them? Ever thought of organic feed? Do you feed them yogurt? Just trying to mix things up a bit. Do you supplement their light on these short winter days?

 

[DMRippy]

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I did NOT know you were make LF blacks... I thought they were a BY PRODUCT to help in the Columbian's. I did NOT know that about bantams. Thanks.

 

[jodyb]

They are all so beautiful. I am getting 10 hens and one rooster, among others as chicks in Feburary. I had a pullet hen, my very favorite, when a couple of dogs came into my yard and got her. I actually saw the black dog EATING her. Sad day!

Jodyb