Who to choose?

[Capricoco]

I’m sending a bunch of roosters to freezer camp, and I have 2 barred rocks, I’m keeping one but not the other, but I’m running into issues with choosing. All I need is the barring. Both are the same in looks and personality almost to a T, and the difference are very slight. Espresso has 2 spurs on each foot, and slightly more of a yellow tinge to his feathers. He is the younger of the two, being about a year old. This is him.

and then I have a slightly older roster named brewster. This is him.

 

[Chicken poppy]

Maybe @cherrynberry could help. i personally would choose the 1st one. But im not great with barring and stuff

 

[Geena]

They are both hatchery quality. The second one has slightly better barring and tail set. If you have no particular goal in mind, just keep whichever one you like best.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

They are both hatchery quality. The second one has slightly better barring and tail set. If you have no particular goal in mind, just keep whichever one you like best.

X2. If all you need is the barring gene, keep the one that you enjoy seeing most

 

[BlueBaby]

Did you say that one of them has 2 spur's on each foot? That's the one that I would cull. One set of spur's on a rooster can do enough damage to hen's while breeding, let alone having an extra set of them.

 

[Cattle dog Mom]

I agree, I would cull Mr "2 spurs per leg".

 

[Egghead_Jr]

He also has a squirrel tail and yellow tinge to feathers. Obvious one to cull.

 

[Capricoco]

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They are both hatchery quality. The second one has slightly better barring and tail set. If you have no particular goal in mind, just keep whichever one you like best.

My goal is to produce ghost barred chickens, and because of how faint the barring is on a ghost barred chicken, the quality of the barring won’t affect the outcome much. And after thinking about it, the yellow tinge might play to my advantage for that

 

[Ascholten]

Eating them? cull the younger one, more tender to eat.

aaron

 

[Capricoco]

He also has a squirrel tail and yellow tinge to feathers. Obvious one to cull.

He’s probably a cross of some sort with a barred rock