Supposed to be a Barred Plymouth Rock

[City farm]

Yep, there have been a lot of these "Barred Rocks" recently. Not sure what's going on...

Right! I have the same issue. Not as pretty but the comb is small but has more white like a cockerel. I need to take and post photos.

 

[Painted Calls]

Yep, there have been a lot of these "Barred Rocks" recently. Not sure what's going on...

All came from TSC too. I'm assuming Hoover's.

 

[tyk1989]

All came from TSC too. I'm assuming Hoover's.

I wonder if they know what happened! I’m interested to know what she was crossed with.

 

[Painted Calls]

I wonder if they know what happened! I’m interested to know what she was crossed with.

I'm interested in knowing too. These funky BR chicks started popping up everywhere here this spring. So far, all of them have been pullets too I believe. Which is even more strange.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I wonder if they know what happened! I’m interested to know what she was crossed with.

I'm interested in knowing too. These funky BR chicks started popping up everywhere here this spring. So far, all of them have been pullets too I believe. Which is even more strange.

My theory is that they’re a cross of the same two breeds as black sex links, except reversed. Instead of barred rock hen x RIR rooster, it would be barred rock rooster x RIR hen. Like red sex links versus amberlinks (amberlinks have the same breeds as RSLs in them, except the parents are reversed so the cross isn’t sex linked).
This would make hens that are basically barred black sex links, usually with the silver gene.

 

[Painted Calls]

My theory is that they’re a cross of the same two breeds as black sex links, except reversed. Instead of barred rock hen x RIR rooster, it would be barred rock rooster x RIR hen. Like red sex links versus amberlinks (amberlinks have the same breeds as RSLs in them, except the parents are reversed so the cross isn’t sex linked).
This would make hens that are basically barred black sex links, usually with the silver gene.

That's a good theory. Why would they sell them as BR though? Unless it was an oops.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

That's a good theory. Why would they sell them as BR though? Unless it was an oops.

Not sure. I haven’t seen any new hybrids on any of the hatchery websites I’ve looked at, so it could just be that they haven’t written a description yet.