[egglady]

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?

[jameslindsay]

Just guessing here Laura but I think you would end up with baby chicks hee hee hee. Couldn't resist sorry. How's the back today?

[Sandy]

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

[shetlandpaul]

still worth the try if you have the birds.

[egglady]

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!

[Birdie Wife]

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.

[CameronS]

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

[Daveravey]

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.

[CameronS]

Thats the one, new it had a "bridge" in is somewhere   

[bamford6]

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 .

[Sandy]

I have some Black Rocks, lovely friendly birds!!!! Where are you? I wouldn't mind some more.

[bamford6]

just out side aviemore i travel to england regulare perth glasgow m6

[chickenfeed]

  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.

[bamford6]

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

[BlueDaisy]

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!