can anyone tell me what breeds I have I bought eggs they are suppose to be Easter Eggers black jerse

Michael OShay said:

I think the problem here is that in your heading you said, "barred rock jersey giant mix" which led us to believe that you have some chicks that were barred rock X jersey giant crosses. Perhaps what you meant is that you have a mix of all three breeds, Easter Eggers, Black Jersey Giants, and Barred Rocks. Let me clarify what your chicks could be based on whether your have Black Jersey Giants and Barred Rocks in your flock, or Black Jersey Giants and BJG X BR crosses. Your solid black chicks (depending on what combo you have in your flock) could be either pure Black Jersey Giant chicks (either sex) or female Black Sex Link chicks (any solid colored rooster crossed with a barred hen will produce Black Sex Link offspring). Your black chicks with the white spot on top of their heads (depending on what combo you have in your flock) could be either Barred Rock chicks (either sex) or male Black Sex Link chicks.

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junebuggena said:

A barred hen can only pass her barring on to her male offspring. Since the rooster was not barred, the barred Rock hen's chicks would be sexlinked, in that only the males will be barred. All of the chicks with a white head spot are male. The solid black chicks could either be black sexlink pullets or pure black Jersey Giant. The black sexlink pullets may not look like traditional, hatchery sourced black sexlink pullets; since the rooster was not a red/gold based color rooster. The gold neck feathers come in later, as they feather in. Their chick down is not gold around their necks. Black sexlink pullets start out mostly solid black.

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junebuggena said:

You have some Black Jersey Giant chicks and some Black Sexlink chicks. You won't really be able to tell them apart until they are a bit older, and the Giant pullets might look the same as the Black Sexlinks pullets even when they are grown. The Black Sexlink cockerels look like Barred Rocks, but are not. You would sell them as Barred Rock/Jersey Giant Black Sexlinks. They will be really good meat birds, and should sell pretty easily. Your Jersey Giant chicks could be male or female, you'll just have to wait and see.

Your Olive Egger may or may not lay an olive colored egg. Chicks can't be feather sexed accurately unless fast and slow feathering lines are maintained. Since you used an Easter Egger for the blue gene, the chick might have inherited the blue egg gene, or it could could have two brown egg genes instead. They only way to guarantee an olive laying chick is to cross pure Ameraucana, Araucana, or Legbar with a dark brown egg laying breed. The reason why you can't be sure when using an Easter Egger is that most Easter Eggers are carrying one blue egg gene and one brown egg gene or white egg gene, not two blue egg genes like a purebred bird is.

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