Plymouth Rock thread!

[chickenlver2013]

Are white rock dom white or recessive white?  If they are dom white yes you will get o100% white chicks with spots.  If they are recessive WHO KNOWS.  The white birds can hide all kinds of stuff, barring, blue, black...... anything could be under there.  Most people don't want to cross whites with other colors because of the UNKNOWN.   Your barred rock hens should make you sex linked cockerels, unless they are barred under the white. 

If you just want to SEE what you get that would be ok, but I think you would have an uphill battle getting something usable out of them.  The partridge and penciled rocks patterns will not show the first cross. 

So your saying I'll have to breed the partridge and penciled back to the parents and then together?

 

[Silver Rock]

Congratulations!

Thank you!
I will post a few pictures later this weekend of the new chicks. Until then here are a few pictures of the 4 Silver Penciled Plymouth Rock chicks that hatched out a couple week ago.

 

[DMRippy]

If you breed the penciled and partridge to the white it will take 4-5 generations to see the penciling again. I don't know how many generations to get them right.

 

[chickenlver2013]

If you breed the penciled and partridge to the white it will take 4-5 generations to see the penciling again. I don't know how many generations to get them right.

Any idea how to make a blue rock, black rock, and a chocolate rock?

 

[NeilsHamburgs]

Order every kind of rock you can find and hatch every egg you can get your hands on.

 

[Davaroo]

Order every kind of rock you can find and hatch every egg you can get your hands on.

I like that!

 

[DMRippy]

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Blue and black rocks exist so why make them? Not sure how you would make them really. Some of your crosses will produce chicks that are blue and black but hiding all the other stuff like penciling it would pop up if you kept breeding them. Chocolate rocks..... I think someone is making them too. The choc you would have to cross them with something else that is choc like and orpington.

 

[chickenlver2013]

Blue and black rocks exist so why make them?  Not sure how you would make them really.  Some of your crosses will produce chicks that are blue and black but hiding all the other stuff like penciling it would pop up if you kept breeding them.  Chocolate rocks..... I think someone is making them too.  The choc you would have to cross them with something else that is choc like and orpington. 

There isn't a Blue, Black, Chocolate, Columbian or Buff breeder known where I live. So I thought why not experiment haha.

 

[DMRippy]

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Thats when you order chicks or eggs so you don't have to reinvent the wheel. BUT experimenting is fun too...

 

[debp]

I have my first chickens, now 5 weeks old and 8 of them are Barred Plymouth Rocks. They are feathering in SO differently. I got straight run BR from McMurray. 5 are feathered enough to move out to the coop, but 3 of the 8 are just barely starting to feather beyond the wings, and 1 still has no tertials. I assume this is part of the delayed feathering gene complex. I had read somewhere that only males will exhibit the late feathering, but I am starting to think that these might be pullets. Is that possible? But, if they are delayed in feathering, will they also be slow in comb and body growth? One of he 3 is noticeably smaller than the others. Does this slow start mean they will not be hardy or productive? 2 of the 3, including the littlest one, are the life of the party in the brooder, the other seems less vigorous.

They are anxious to get into a bigger area, but with temps around 40 at night yet, I'm nervous about putting the downy ones out yet.