Plymouth Rock thread!

[Robert Blosl]

I had another picture of a male that I raised who had really good yellow legs but late last night I could not find it on our Phot Bucket web site. I found out that when this male was on the ground walking around his back was not that high. This is a strain that a fellow is working on and will improve. There are a lot of bantam and large fowl white rocks that are having high tail sections. Some thing they lack lenth of back or have loose feather quaitly. I am not sure. In this picture it was about leg color.

I was in my chicken house trying to cull three or four white rock bantams and leg color was not even the issue. I was trying to find one female that was lean and not so wide as the other females. I am going to farm these out to a lady who just wants eggs and some chickens to be in her horse barn. Then I can come back in a year and rotate the females with new ones and then see if I want to keep any of them for breeders or get rid of them.

bob

 

[cybercat]

Bob I had wondered about the legnth of back on my cockerals. Since every picture that is a show bird has more the Wyanndotte look. I had interpatied the SOP to have a longer back so you got more a bowler shape upside down than the round curve shape of wyandottes. Even my girls show back and not the V of the popular show lines. So what is up with the V back birds winning in shows over the correct SOP back birds? Is it just a fad? I saw alot of those when breeding GSDs years ago. It is always a shame when breeders fall into that craze. Another reason I do not like to show even though I do breed to SOP.

 

[Robert Blosl]

This was the picture I was looking for last night. He had the yellow legs like I wanted in my large fowl. He was about five or six months old when I took this picture and I was thinking those are some good colored legs when I took his picture. He was looking for bugs at the time. He had a very low back angle and his brother I loved had almost a lift like a Rhode Island White. I shiped the above birds brother to Penn. to be used on a Columbian Rock project and this male in the picture was killed by a fox. Had to ship the brother back down to us to use as a breeder and he helped us produce three nice females and two males for future breeding. We got to next year increase the lift in the top line as they are a little low. I would rather be low than high.

In regards to back angle or shortness of back many times people breed this way because that is what is winning at the shows. They want to win and they will breed with what will get them the stared wins.

Thats why I hate to go to shows some times I would just rather breed them.

Hope this helps the leg color issue. Sorry for the picture with the males high tail. bob

 

[Lyongirl]

Hello again everyone! I posted a few chick pictures a couple of weeks back and now that my chicks are getting older they are starting to make me nervous. It looks like two of them are getting lighter feathers than the other two. Here are some updated pictures if you guys can tell me which one of these are roo's. If they are I'll need to get rid of them ASAP

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chick 1 (one of the ones we think is a roo):

chick 2 (the other one I'm slightly less iffy on):

chick 3 (pretty sure this is a hen):

chick 4 (pretty sure this one is a hen too):

Sorry the quality isn't great..I only have my phone to take pictures with.

 

[Lyongirl]

My hand is really small so it makes them look larger than they actually are

I just noticed this!

 

[cybercat]

OK I am no expert on barred but I think you are correct they are both male. One reason combs are way to big for that age, tails are still short and white dot on back of head.

 

[Happy Chooks]

1. male
2. male
3. female




At almost 32 weeks, I finally have both of my SPPR's laying!

I need the eggs badly as most of my other girls are molting right now.

 

[Lyongirl]

So I was right..darn. Now starts the task of getting rid of them then before the become loud. Should I try to sell them or just give them away? I've never had chickens before so I'm not sure how easy it is to get rid of roosters..

 

[PandoraTaylor]

last candling shows 9 of 12 moving

. Lockdown has begun! Nov 9th hatch date.

I am impatiently waiting for the hatch of my Columbian Rocks!!

 

[3chimama]

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LOVE these photos!