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He looks awful breast-y for a Barred Rock, but it's really hard to say.

Here are two of them parted out. That's just the breasts and wings, the legs and thighs were hefty. I made soup of those in particular.

Nooooo. I'd have to be licensed even to sell on-farm, let alone ship carcasses.

The ones I did were 16-18 week cockerels and they dressed over 4lbs each.

Not of the carcasses. Here's a ~5 month old pullet, she weighed 6lbs there.

If you're going to do Dual Purpose, you're going to either have very small carcasses, or birds that you really should slow roast and not fry. If at all possible, I would seek out good heritage stock, as they get bigger than hatchery birds. I butchered out a Barred Rock rooster a couple weeks...