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"Additional male birds that can be used in a red-sex linked cross: Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, Wheaten or Blue Wheaten or Buff Ameraucana, Black Breasted Red or Buff Araucana, Buckeye, Buttercup, White Laced Red or Red or Buff Cornish, Black Breasted Red Cubalaya, Golden Lakenvelder, and Buff...

Thank You Very Much! As they say a picture is worth a thousand words. Looks somewhat like my Marans x Cream Legbar crosses so no need to try the cuckoo if my goal is to get a different look. Maybe I will try a Salmon Favorolle for a light olive egger, to go with the dark olive eggers

Thank you, Not what I wanted to hear, but good to know. On the first page of this thread it mentions Wheaten Ameraucanas as one of the additional roosters that could be used, so it raised my hopes. If you dont mind me asking what would I be looking for after the week or two? and would silver...

Black Copper Marans are based on Birchen and Birchen is not a good choice for red sex links. Thank you, Well that answers one question I had. Between my Cream Legbars, BLBSP Marans, Cuckoo Marans and BLBSP Ameraucanas I have More than enough Black Sex Link crosses. I am thinking the White...

From what I read I thought for this particular cross the head spot would be hard to see and unreliable, even in the blacks, From what I understood I thought they were sexable from the stripe down the back. In which case I wondered if this would be more difficult to see if you added blue to the...

I just have to ask... What would happen if you used a blue cock instead of a black?

I agree, Most people end up with more eggs than they can use anyways and just enjoy having a few chickens. Pretty and tame are a plus, add in colorful eggs for the win.

Something to keep in mind is that there can also be big differences between the productivity of show and production lines. I would think the production lines would give you more productive crosses too.

I believe it is that it is based primarily on the resulting chicks having very clear and distinct identification patterns. I wish we could have a working list of the various crosses that have worked for people in the past graded on ease of sexability. It would be an easy reference and would...

I hear you, just as poodles originated from several other breeds interbred to create the breed. At some point the traits were stabilized and defined to become a new breed. The original project crosses would not be considered to be members of the newly defined breed, as they would not meet the...

If An EE can lay blue, olive, brown or pink eggs as the hatchery chickens do they are from crosses and the genetics are mixed with those of other breeds. There is a brown egg layer in the mix somewhere. If I have a Poodle that does not meet the breed standard it is a poodle? NO. I would...

Depends where you got him from. The hatcheries sell EE crosses as ameicaunas,ameraucanas araucanas,Easter Eggers and Rainbow layers The one that lays olive eggs makes me pretty sure they are EE. Dont get me wrong I love EE they are calm friendly and good layers, They just arent Ameraucanas (and...

An Ameraucana should have two copies of the 'muff' gene, while an Easter egger/ olive egger can have one or two. So if the roo is an ameraucana all chicks should get one copy and have the muffs, while an easter egger can give half or all muffs.

Very nice would love to have auto sexing EE and olive eggers too.

What egg color are you aiming for? An ameraucana rooster over those hens you will give you light olive/green egg layers. If you want EE with blue eggs you are better off starting with barred hollands, production greys, crested cream legbars or barred easter egger hens from one of the above...

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I see, Perhaps a running list/spread sheet would work better than a chart. A spread sheet kept In alphabetical order for each type of sex link Then people could consult the list or add to the list when they find a cross that works.. Should answer 95% of the questions as the people asking are...

Thank you, I am familiar with the blue black splash but that explains why someone was selling eggs of Blue Ameraucanas that would also throw Lavenders I was under the impression the colors were more related. I am new to chicken genetics and learning. My background is in plant genetics, I find...

There is a chart in the older posts that you may find helpful. It explains sex linked crosses and describes different groups of hens and roosters that can be crossed together to result in sexlinked chicks. It would be great if we all put our heads together to expand on the chart to include more...

Can you please explain the difference between Blue and Lavender and why lavender will work in a sex link cross.