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Its not going to be just as simple as that. They are specially bred to be feather sexed and as Tim said, they obviously carry dominant white and not all white rock strains are going to have dominant white. You can't expect just breed any white rock and a RIR and get what you want...
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Dom. White (as in Leghorns and some gamefowl) is used to, "Create" Red Pyles so it does leak Gold but covers Black well..
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Yeah thats what I am saying the dom white is covering what ever black that would be in the bird, but if the are from a Silver Columbian colored roo on Red...
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Thats so confusing becuase the OP of that Amberlink thread had also posted that they were from a Light Sussex rooster on RIR hens which would be about the same as a Delaware roo and I believe that person said that info came from someone in the UK too. But where does the Dom White come...
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Come on now Chris, where did you get this info ? The cross you are talking about is what the cross that Cackle hatchery calls "Indian Rivers" . The color of the Amberlinks is from breeding with Dominant White and you know that Delawares dont have dom white. If it were from a Delaware...