Plymouth Rock thread!

[cbnovick]

So we have 2 Partridge Plymouth Rocks that we purchased from Tractor Supply on March 4th. I'm beginning to think that both of them maybe Roos. Anyone have any thoughts?

look like cockerels to me at this point....

 

[StizzyL17]

Both of them right? They look about the same all over...one acts a little bossier than the other. So sad...I can't keep Roos.

 

[mbmess2003]

Both of them right? They look about the same all over...one acts a little bossier than the other. So sad...I can't keep Roos.

yes....both are. sorry

 

[DMRippy]

This chick is a bantam BR from SQ stock...and will be 3 weeks old on Friday.

Any idea what gender it is? Or is it still a bit early? It is reeeeeally slowly growing feathers as you can see.

Looks like a pullet to me. A cockerel would be much whiter.

 

[four h lover]

I have one CPRB left and she 8 years old but far she is my favorite hen but she is going to die soon then I'm going to cry my rooster was older and he died last year and right now I have a WPRB left that I can breed and I have no hens for him so I'm trying to find more right now for I can show them again

 

[catdaddyfro]

Scott I just received 10 2wk old Columbian Rocks from Fogelly they are nice and good, sweet n' big too. I'm well satisfied and amazed. They remind of how big the F1 projects and the Good Shepard Barred Rocks looked when I first received them from Mrs. Kathy. I was awestruck at the sheer size of "chicks" purely amazing that they can be this big. I was so used to proreds and hatchery stuff which in reality look like they fit the EGG they were hatched from. LOL

Thanks Ron and to you Scott for broadcasting these about for all to share and the joys to have some.

Jeff

 

[15littlem]

Quick question, can EE or Ameraucana (yes, I realize the difference, but I don't know if the hatchery does or not) roos be used for black sex links?

 

[DMRippy]

Quick question, can EE or Ameraucana (yes, I realize the difference, but I don't know if the hatchery does or not) roos be used for black sex links?

Duckwing, birchen and solid color roos with barred hens/pullets will make sexlinks.

 

[15littlem]

Duckwing, birchen and solid color roos with barred hens/pullets will make sexlinks.

What about the funky colored ones? (the EE's that have the non-standard coloration, not barred,duckwing, etc.)

 

[DMRippy]

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You can't use Barred roos and I don't think you should use laced... but not sure on that. What are you calling funky colored? Most of the EE roos I have seen are duckwingish and will make fine sex links.

Any of these roos will work to make sex links.