Plymouth Rock thread!

[peewee6765]

heres my white rock

 

[halo]

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I dont. Sometimes I think I should get some, but I just don't have the room.

 

[snowbird]

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Halo, never owned Blue rocks, but should not the leg color be yellow. I have Buff, white , Barred , partridge in the bantams

 

[halo]

For the most part, yes. That is one thing I am working on. That is why I was so pleased to hatch a pretty blue boy with solid yellow legs. The SOP says, about legs on blue Rocks:

Shanks and toes: Male - Yellow. Female Yellow or dusky yellow, yellow preferred. Most of my girls have yellow feet, if you look at the bottoms of their feet. There are a very few that still have white; a throwback to orps, I understand. So I do have the yellow base to work with.

I am in no way, shape, or form, trying to produce show birds. Show birds mean nothing to me. I am trying to breed to the SOP, which is the direction Im going with these shanks. Right now, just being a good CHICKEN (size, laying ability, temperment, clear color) is more important to me. Im building the barn right now; might take me a few years to get to the paint.

 

[HBuehler]

I'm also getting some nice yellow legs from Halo's flock. My splash roo has real good yellow my ladies have legs like Halo's but doesn't stop everyone from falling in love with them big blue fluffy and cuddly what else could you want in a chicken

oh right they lay lots of eggs too.

 

[Morgan7782]

Love all the pictures!! I love my Barred Rock, Joon. She is awesome

and a total sweetie pie. I was looking for any pictures of Barred Rocks around 20/24 weeks old (age IN the picture) here: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=399585 if anybody has any Plymouth Rock pictures of a pullet around 20/24 weeks old please post in that thread!

Great birds all

 

[Robert Blosl]

The White Rock large fowl are one pound over standard weight. They use to lay almost 200 eggs per year as a pullet which is a lot and they are tight feathered like a Plymouth Rock is suppose to be. Big Rocks that fill a show coop are just big fluffy birds. They are not good Plymouth Rocks. Many judges like these big birds that are loose feathered and fluffy and if I find that is what they like I just dont go to that show. Not worth the money and time to let a judge treat a good bird like that. Sorry if I am fussy about this but times are tough and you cant afford to go to a show and spend say $500. and go home unhappy when every one else knows your birds where true to standard. Love your blue Rocks never seen any in large fowl only bantams. bob

 

[halo]

Bob, what do you mean by they "used" to lay 200 eggs a year? Does that mean the breed in general doesnt now? How bout the ones that you have now, are they still good layers? Their size sounds wonderful.

Do you sell eggs??

 

[Robert Blosl]

They lay about 180 now as I have not produced the numbers of chicks toget the females to produce those numbers. Plus what am I going to do with all the eggs. I only use the eggs for hatching and produing chicks. I give the other eggs on the off season away to familys who are hurting for food. If your chickens lay 180 eggs in a pullet year thats good enough for me. If I want lots of eggs I would buy Production Reds from the hatcherys or the local feed store that come from Ideal hatchery. Babcock 290s are what these chickens are. The are not Rhode Island Reds but where developed by a great commercial chicken man Monroe Babcock of New York. He also developed a super egg laying white leghorn line whick I think they callled them the Babcock 300s they are breed only for egg laying and not for breed type.

I should make this clear this strain layed about 200 eggs per pullet year. The average Standard White Plymouth if breed for large size and fluffy feathers may not lay 120 eggs in her pullet year. I pushed the limits to my White Rocks and Large Fowl Reds to see if I could do it. I did and then I retired from large fowl and only have bantams. I have a bantam Rhode Island Red that was shrunk down from my old large fowl strain. I am trying now to improve their egg prouduction to say 175 eggs per pullet year. I think I can do it as they still have the large fowl Mohawk traits in them. Do any of you count your eggs per year to see how many eggs your females lay? Its called trap nesting.

Sorry for writing that way I was half asleep when I wrote it. It was real hard to get a pullet to lay 200 eggs in her pullet year and have her have good type, and keep her in with yellow legs. It was fun at the time when I did it. bob

We sell started Chicks at age 5 weeks of age and ship them overnight express. Shipping eggs does not give us good hatchabilty but we are trying a new method this year. Two day priorty mail and paying for special handling charges to see if the hatches improve.

 

[Tony]

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