Plymouth Barred Rock hen or roo?

[ChickenMamaRNx6]

All pictured here are cockerels. #2 isn't a Barred Rock, he's got a pea comb.

I've been worried about that very thing (that they're all cockerels).
The only barred breed she had were Plymouth Rock but I'm sure they've been crossed and crossed again so who knows

 

[speckledhen]

I'd bet money there are a couple of pullets in there. This one I am positive is a pullet, if it's the same age as the others. Looks just like a black sex link pullet, have created those with a Delaware over BR hens.

Some are crosses, which means you cannot go on the dark or light in the barring. You'll have to wait for the red combs to show up better. I did miss the pea comb on the one with faded looking barring because I didn't enlarge the photos that much, but I didn't see any pea-combed parents listed so maybe there are more breeds in that mix, sorry I missed that. No parents with pea combs listed in the first post, though so that one is a mystery.
I've hatched so many chicks in the past from barred birds. I had some Silver Phoenix cross chicks; all the males were barred and the lone pullet was black same as you'd see in black sexlinks because the sire was Phoenix and all the mothers were barred (passes her barring to sons only). That said, time will tell and I bet in a week or two, you will know what's what. Sexing any chick, even sex linked birds like BRs is an art, not a science.

 

[ChickenMamaRNx6]

I'd bet money there are a couple of pullets in there. This one I am positive is a pullet, if it's the same age as the others. Looks just like a black sex link pullet, have created those with a Delaware over BR hens.
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Some are crosses, which means you cannot go on the dark or light in the barring. You'll have to wait for the red combs to show up better. I did miss the pea comb on the one with faded looking barring because I didn't enlarge the photos that much, but I didn't see any pea-combed parents listed so maybe there are more breeds in that mix, sorry I missed that. No parents with pea combs listed in the first post, though so that one is a mystery.
I've hatched so many chicks in the past from barred birds. I had some Silver Phoenix cross chicks; all the males were barred and the lone pullet was black same as you'd see in black sexlinks because the sire was Phoenix and all the mothers were barred (passes her barring to sons only). That said, time will tell and I bet in a week or two, you will know what's what. Sexing any chick, even sex linked birds like BRs is an art, not a science.

She is the same age and we have another one that looks just like her so hopefully that means she has a friend. I know it's important for them to be with others!
Thank you for all the info and feedback. I'm so intrigued by the genetics!

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Would also say all boys (for the barred ones). Middle boy is not pure BR as he has a pea comb. Sorry for the rotten luck!

 

[speckledhen]

Agreed on the pea combed one. I missed the pea comb at first, didn't enlarge the photo. With barring that faded, there is a BR mother and a solid colored sire, but with the pea comb, the sire would have to be pea combed, I'd think. And it would be male if that is the case since barred hens only contribute their barring gene to their sons. I think there may be other breeds represented in that bunch that were not listed, though throwbacks to past genetics can also occur. I've seen it in spades with a hen who came from a lovely BBS Ameraucana flock, hatched from a blue egg, but ended up having quite obvious Sumatra genes from somewhere. She produced brown eggs and had spurs from her "teens". I've seen many of those BR crosses in past years on this homestead, though I choose to stay with straight breeds and not cross any longer and I've chosen to only have Barred Rocks now. I used to make the prettiest crosses with my blue Ameraucana hens and my BR rooster. One was especially gorgeous, a blue barred hen named Riley. Crosses can be fun. Should be fun figuring it all out. Genes can be less textbook than you think, trust me.

 

[Yardmom]

The barring on the first three birds indicate cockeral. Only cockerels can be double barred (wide white) no matter what the breeding, mixed or other wise. (I have had some barred pullets look whiter when some mottling genes and/ or some white to black genes came into play, but yours do not appear to have those).

The other 3 are still a wait and see. At that age the cockeral signs may not show.

 

[ChickenMamaRNx6]

I'd bet money there are a couple of pullets in there. This one I am positive is a pullet, if it's the same age as the others. Looks just like a black sex link pullet, have created those with a Delaware over BR hens.
View attachment 4111449
Some are crosses, which means you cannot go on the dark or light in the barring. You'll have to wait for the red combs to show up better. I did miss the pea comb on the one with faded looking barring because I didn't enlarge the photos that much, but I didn't see any pea-combed parents listed so maybe there are more breeds in that mix, sorry I missed that. No parents with pea combs listed in the first post, though so that one is a mystery.
I've hatched so many chicks in the past from barred birds. I had some Silver Phoenix cross chicks; all the males were barred and the lone pullet was black same as you'd see in black sexlinks because the sire was Phoenix and all the mothers were barred (passes her barring to sons only). That said, time will tell and I bet in a week or two, you will know what's what. Sexing any chick, even sex linked birds like BRs is an art, not a science.

Better pictures of my *possible* BSLs haha
Time will tell. Oh well, they're fun and nice (even all my boys, so far!).

 

[speckledhen]

Yep, I say BSL pullet. Looks like every one we've created here.

 

[McChooky]

That's a lot of white for a female barring. Properly bred barred Plymouth rocks, are odd to be sold straight run because it should be obvious at hatch what the gender is.

I was able to sex my 1st batch of barred chicks with 100% accuracy by measuring the amount of white on the barred feathers .I also had a dark one and it was a hen

 

[nuthatched]

I was able to sex my 1st batch of barred chicks with 100% accuracy by measuring the amount of white on the barred feathers .I also had a dark one and it was a hen

That's they point, why would you sell easily sexable birds as straight run?