Plymouth Rock thread!

[Lotsapaints]

Well to get the best pullets you have a pullet pen...back to the double mating theme but heres's a link http://www.bantamclub.com/site/inde...tams-by-bob-hawes&catid=34:articles&Itemid=55 and that 1919 book is on google I think I have copied many pages for selection on my Partridges and plan on using it for my Silvers too

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

I have a pair of bantam Plymouth Rocks.

Here are some young pictures of them.

Hen

Cock

I need to take updated pictures of them...

 

[Lotsapaints]

That baby is a beauty are they slow to feather too? I think BR's are good looking but I don't need any more Rocks...

 

[cybercat]

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The new thoughts on the double mating system are it is NOT nessasry to get good birds of each sex. There is a talk about this one the rock club forums. I know in the Partridge breeding it was told red breasted males for best females. But now you can not easily find them since black breasted is the correct color for the males. So on that not I would only keep the best that match the SOP and get rid of the rest after first year.

 

[Lotsapaints]

I have the last SOP I let somebody borrow my red one and I don't think the standard has changed for partridge....my roos have good color and the hens that hatched out with them are very well laced I think the difficult part is the deep reddish bay sometimes they get lighter in some lines. I've read that for Silver Penciled you need to keep muddy backed hens for the better roos but I don't know that for a fact. My PR's are all young 6 months and look green, black and burgundy red to me with lacing and when I pull feathers they are laced correctly...

 

[cherylcohen]

Just hatched 4 beautiful fluff balls from Wynette - silver penciled plymouth rocks 1-2 days old

One had splayed/spraddle leg, but is doing great today !! 2 are very chubby, almost as chubby as the english orps I hatched with them

AND THE CHORUS LINE

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Congrats! Mine were the most mellow chicks. Now the 2 I have left are close to POL, they're around 24 weeks.

 

[Lotsapaints]

Ahhh I have 8 from Wynette too mine are a month old I can't wait for them to feather out into their beauty.....

 

[Wynette]

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Cheryl, you only got FOUR to hatch? Awe....that ain't right!

Did your son get to see any hatch??

They're awfully cute!!!!

ETA: Lotsapaints - they do go through quite an ugly stage, but hang in there! One day, you'll go look at them & your mouth will drop open, they're so darn pretty!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Wynette dear, where have you been? You need to be posting more so I can win your contest!