The RE-Build of Les Farms

[IndigoChicken12]

What's ringlet barring?

 

[aoxa]

What's ringlet barring?

E.B.THOMPSON IMPERIAL RINGLETS BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS

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[camilleathome]

PS: I still really want some Muscovies. If you have any extras for the fall sale, can you keep us in mind? Unless you are coming up to Moncton area before for whatever reason. They are the only duck breed we plan on going back into. I loved the personality of them.

Im on the same boat for the Muscovies and also indian runners XD. My poor little long indian runner needs buddies.

 

[CourtsCacklers]

All the pictures are beautiful and the barn is coming along nicely as well! So happy for you that you are finally getting to get back in the barn-- literally

We have been busy building our very small mini-barn with chicken coop out of reclaimed materials and it is indeed very very exciting to finally see it all coming together after all of the planning that goes into the designing and building process!

 

[BlueMouse]

I cannot believe those barred rocks. They're spectacular.

 

[mountaindog66]

If I'm ever fortunate enough to build a barn from scratch someday, I will be referring to your plans, so well thought-out! I adore your new Nubians, and the ringlet barring is really striking on your Rocks, they are really something. Good luck with getting everyone settled in over the next few days, hope the goats warm up to Henry soon.

 

[aart]

So does the ringlet barred rock have a finer barring than the typical barred rock?

Obviously it's an old breed rather than a new variety.

Very attractive bird.

 

[amenfarm]

E.B.THOMPSON IMPERIAL RINGLETS BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS

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it looks like the barring is thinner and more than on my 2 BPRocks.

 

[aoxa]

it looks like the barring is thinner and more than on my 2 BPRocks.

It is more defined


A couple new pictures to share. Exterior is complete. A bit of clean up left to do and a few minor tweaks with the roosts. I think the roosts is all that is left..



Here is the other side.


My favourite room - the heated brooder room. I need better pictures once electricity is turned on. That will take a week or so.. No running water either. We filled the garbage bins up and took them down so we can refill waterers. I have heavy duty extension cords running from the temporary power they put in to run the eco glows and a light for the chicks to see (as the brooders are quite dark.)


Entrance to the chicken part of the barn. You can see we applied one coat of primer here. Need to complete the hallways..

 

[Fred's Hens]

So does the ringlet barred rock have a finer barring than the typical barred rock?

Obviously it's an old breed rather than a new variety.

Very attractive bird.

The ringlet type Barred Rock, which we also own, is the great example of what a Barred Rock should be, according to the standard. This is the aspiration or the goal of Rock breeding. What passes for a Barred Rock in most cases is a bird that is so far from true type that it would be disqualified if judged. In most cases, it isn't even within a country mile of the standard.

The reality is that just because a bird is 40% Barred Rock, just enough to sort of, kind of, look Rockish, (to coin a word) doesn't make them a true Barred Rock. Most BR shown here on the forums (what you called "a typical Barred Rock") is merely a partial Barred Rock. But, this could be said of most of the birds shown and said to be this or that breed.

Are they chickens? Of course. Maybe even great and wonderful egg laying chickens, but hardly an honest representation of the breed, just kinda, sorta a poser of the breed. Doesn't make them useless as utility birds, meat or egg sources. It takes awhile, sometimes, to wrap one's mind around what a "Breed" is. A breed is a chicken that mankind developed. They were often blends of different foundational birds, worked on by many people faithfully for many years, and when 100 of such birds could be successfully shown to the poultry world and bred true, an application was made to the American Poultry Association. An artistic impressional drawing was made of the ideal bird and a standard was written, specifying, with great detail, the physical features of the bird. Then, and only then is it declared an accepted breed.

The standard for the Barred Rock calls for such barring as you see in those famous drawings. In a perfect world, all Barred Rocks would be as crisp. That's why it is called the Standard of Perfection.