15 week old barred rock mix gender?!?1

[pemphredo]

it has already molted and non of it's feathers are pointy BUT I had a full blood barred rock rooster that NEVER got any pointy feather and he was for sure he. He rooster crowed every morning at 6am LOL
So what do you think about this 15 to 16 week old? hen or rooster?

 

[donrae]

I think roo.

Just checking, was the roo the barred rock?

 

[amyduck]

Off topic, but what is the chicken in the foreground of the first picture? Mine has feathers just like that.

 

[fuzziecreatures]

I'm gonna hazard a guess at black sex link cockerel

 

[BlueCamas]

Blak sex-link cockerel.

 

[donrae]

Okay, but if the roo was the barred rock, it's not a sex link, just a part barred rock. Granted, the result is the same, but it's not really sex linked and that can confuse a lot of folks thinking you'll get a sex link hatch from a barred rock roo. If, indeed, that was the case. Waiting for the OP to respond.

 

[pemphredo]

no the father was not a barred rock he was a rhode island red. the mother was a barred rock.

 

[pemphredo]

Off topic, but what is the chicken in the foreground of the first picture? Mine has feathers just like that.

IDK exactly but she is a mix between either of these barnevelder, barred rock, dominique, and rhode island red...

 

[donrae]

no the father was not a barred rock he was a rhode island red. the mother was a barred rock.

Okay, so any birds you hatch from this cross are sex links. All barred birds are boys and all non-barred birds are girls. Easy-peasy way to sex. Barred birds have a white spot on their head when the hatch, non barred birds have solid heads. Your boy will probably develop gold leakage on his hackle feathers and wing bow as he ages--I think they're quite striking.

 

[Chickerdoodle13]

That bird there is a little roo.