The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: egglady on August 20, 2010, 11:11:34 am
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i know black rocks are from RIR & PLymouth rock, but if i have a black rock cockerel and hens - would i get black rock chicks? if not, what would i get? :-\
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Just guessing here Laura but I think you would end up with baby chicks hee hee hee. ::) :P :wave: Couldn't resist sorry. How's the back today?
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Black Rocks can only be called that when they come from a breeder who's name escapes me at the moment, others have to be called something else, maybe black pebbles, dark grey stones!!!! I suppose as they are a hybred Chicken you could get any varient of the mix of genetics in Black Rocks ??? ???
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still worth the try if you have the birds.
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i'n not bothered about whaat they are called, so long as they lay me nice eggs and i can hatch a few.
thanx
and james, bCK still agony - now on diazopam as well as everything else. should start rattling soon!
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Black Rocks are from the Muirfield hatchery near Kinross and they'll only sell pullets or hens, not cockerels. So you won't get a Black Rock Cockerel unless you're a breeder who is registered and licensed by Muirfield to breed and sell Black Rocks on their behalf. It's from two particular strains of RIR and Plymouth Rock that have been bred specifically for the purpose for several generations.
In theory if you had another RIR x PR cockerel and hens that you had bred yourself then you could get chicks but they would just be hybrid chicks, they could turn out like anything really, like Sandy says. Bet they would be nice looking and good layers though.
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Muirfield hatchery near Kinross
The Muirfield hatchery has now gone out of bussiness, he has retired and passed everything onto his son near coat bridge
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Eddie Lovatt is the man you want, he's from Bridge of Weir, near Glasgow.
Not any relation & as far as i know, he bought the name & breeding stock.
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Thats the one, new it had a "bridge" in is somewhere ::) ::)
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im a black rock agent .you need some hens from a agent in youre area and iff you cross with road island red you get a road rock they will lay well but they wont match the black rock .these hens are the rols royce off hens vaccinated and can live 7 yeres very good layers and live on eney land .
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I have some Black Rocks, lovely friendly birds!!!! Where are you? I wouldn't mind some more.
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just out side aviemore i travel to england regulare perth glasgow m6
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:chook: i have crossed my RIR with blackrocks for a couple of years now, they lay just as well as a blackrock if not better. i have kept records for the last couple of years just to see how well they lay compared to the rocks.
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would be good to see haw they have done . the road is a fantastic breed .i would like to make some bantams road black rock .i dont think they will last as long but iff you hatched a fuew each yere it wouldent be a problem all the best
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I have some Black Rocks, lovely friendly birds!!!!
I know a few folk with black rocks and I don't know any that are friendly! Whenever new chicken keepers ask my advice they always want to get black rocks (good marketing campaign) and I always try and talk them out of it, because of their aggressiveness/independence! ;)
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I have some Black Rocks, lovely friendly birds!!!!
I know a few folk with black rocks and I don't know any that are friendly! Whenever new chicken keepers ask my advice they always want to get black rocks (good marketing campaign) and I always try and talk them out of it, because of their aggressiveness/independence! ;)
I have 1 Black Rock and she is none of the above. She comes running to me when she thinks I have food and she even stands from time to time and lets me stroke her. Never has she shown any aggression, that I have seen, to my other chooks.
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i think animals are much like people inasmuchas they are all different with their own individual personalities and likes/dislikes. and how we are influences how they are.
if any of you saw the martin clunes programme about horses last night, you might have seen the bit about Equine Assisted Learning/Therapy - that's what i do and i can tell more about the person from watching them with the horses than i could ever tell from spending hours talking to them!
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perhaps it is also partly if they are kept in a group just with other black rocks?
I don't know anyone who keeps black rocks as part of a mixed flock, but the ones I know have very definite pecking order, bully the lowest hen, will not tolerate being handled by owners, and like to range!
One of my friends got 3 as 9 week olds so that she could spend time taming them, she certainly put the time and effort in but it hasn't made any difference at all. ;)
Another group of 3 spent so much time bullying the lowest in pecking order that my friends were really worried they were going to kill her! With intervention it has stopped but the bullied one still looks terrible, bald patches and very thin, though she is bright and perky and still laying an egg a day! ;)
Anyway, I would never class them as friendly or easy-going, not like Orpingtons or Sussex, or I believe, the warren type hybrids.
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i think animals are much like people inasmuchas they are all different with their own individual personalities and likes/dislikes. and how we are influences how they are.
if any of you saw the martin clunes programme about horses last night, you might have seen the bit about Equine Assisted Learning/Therapy - that's what i do and i can tell more about the person from watching them with the horses than i could ever tell from spending hours talking to them!
Sounds good, Laura. I'll come up sometime and you do an analysis on me - could be fun! I love horses, and that programme was just pure magic. And I love Doc Martin too - such a lovely person
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I love my Black Rock called Lilly-lulu. She is very friendly. Did have 4 but 3 were caught by fox. Would have had more after that but they were hard to get so just went with a mixture of others. But she is by far the biggest and most beautiful of the lot. :)
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I find BR crosses to be more aggressive (and noisy) than actual blackrocks. The farm down the road had a group of fifty Blackrocks, they were the friendliest flock of birds ever, they didn't bat an eyelid when a further 30Warren Browns (or similar) were added, they had free range over 2acres and had access to a barn + cattle steading's. though that steading visits had to stop as they birds became to acquainted with the wheels of tractors ::)
My black rocks were crossed with Light Sussex and are my most dedicated, and proficient layers
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first le i sell black rocks at 4 weeks the kids shout them and they come over for food at 12 weeks they are very happey to be called and eat on the front lawn its just time when you first have chicks .the kids do the best job feeding them picking them up etc