Plymouth Rock thread!

[toodlesmom]

What are the relative merits and disadvantages of the various lines, including dispositions?

 

[skylinepoultry]

Duckworth line of true Barred Rocks

 

[ve]

Such a nice birds. Wish you were selling birds.They have very good tails.

 

[Fred's Hens]

What are the relative merits and disadvantages of the various lines, including dispositions?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/811228/the-plymouth-rock-breeders-thread/640#post_12267898

If I may, I would suggest reading through the Breeder's thread. Link above. There is conversation, discussion, and photos of most of the varieties and many lines of Rocks. You'd come to a better understanding, for sure.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

Duckworth line of true Barred Rocks

So neat that as I scrolled down the pictures, you could immediately pick these out as Duckworth lines....the "tails" tell the tale. Very nice

 

[speckledhen]

Hey, skylinepoultry, do you know Oldfort Mailman (aka Chris)? He has some of my Stukel line BRs and said he had a friend who had some super nice ones, too. Was that you? Just seemed coincidental that you live there.

Much has been said about all the different lines, but I'll repeat for the question asked above: As to disposition of the Stukel BRs, the hens are super friendly and personable, love to be picked up and held. My only cockerel I ever had from that line was just coming into his hormone stage and was feeling his oats and only tried me once, but I found that he was so happy free ranging at Scott's place (I had too many groups then to let him do it daily), that he later chilled out when he was expending more energy, of which he had an abundance. Roosters are always individuals, though temperament is heritable and it's a 50/50 proposition with those. The hens are fabulous as far as disposition goes.

 

[Silver Rock]

My newest additions to my SPPR breeding plans. These are chicks off my Horstman line. I only got 8 chicks out of this hatch. But I have another batch of eggs ready to go into the incubator tonight.

 

[jdoane]

Cute!!! Just wondering _ what's the bucket for?

 

[Silver Rock]

As I get the chicks out of the incubator I put them in the bucket for a few hours until they can keep up with the chicks that hatched out earlier. I have one more chick in the incubator that I had to help out. It was at the wrong end of the egg for a successful pip. Not sure if it is going to make it but if it does I will have 9 chicks.

 

[Silver Rock]

Duckworth line of true Barred Rocks

Very Nice! Outstanding tail & barring!