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Both pictures are the same three chicks.

These are:
Dad: Black Copper Marans
Mom: Crested Easter Egger (dad: Ginger Red Easter Egger) (mom: 1/2 Polish 1/2 Easter Egger) so 3/4 Easter Egger 1/4 Polish.

The yellow one is crested. The two black ones I can't see a crest forming. All three are by one hen do they are full siblings.
 
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These 5 little ones are all from:

Dad: Blue Wheaten Ameraucana
Mom: Birchen crossbred ( dad: Salmon Naked Neck and mom: Birchen colored Naked Neck she herself had an Iowa Blue dad and Black Naked Neck mom).

4 are blackish colored and the 5 th is like this:
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You may cannot make it out so well. It is almost a chocolate color.
 
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These babies are:
Dad: Black Jersey Giant
Mom: possibilities Red Duckwing (Easter Egger/Production Red) or Wheaten Duckwing Green Egger Naked Neck ( Naked Neck Easter Egger). Those are the only three hens that are laying in that run.
 
Working on my own version of a Black Sex Link. Currently the chicks are only a week old but I will post updates as they grow up for reference purposes. Here is the parent stock:

Father is a Buff Orpington Rooster
Mother is a Cuckoo Marans hen (not necessarily this one but it's just to show what the breed looks like.)

And this is what the offspring look like:

All the female chicks should come out like the one on the left, solid black with a reddish buff face and undercolor. All the males will be a lighter overall shade with a white or pale dot on the top of the head, like the chick on the right. That dot represents the barring, or in this case, cuckoo gene that he got from his mother. The females do not get this gene.

I am SO excited about this cross that I couldn't wait to post pics. I will post more as they start to change, and post a final set of pics later this fall once they are fully feathered out.
 
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I have this little bugger coming up. His daddy was my Salmon colored Naked Neck and his mother was my Golden Cuckoo/Barred cross bred hen. This should have been a Sexlinked cross. This one I didn't see a spot on top of his head, imagine my surprise when he developed the barring. The other ones from that cross were all definitely cockerels they were a brownish red barred chicks. I thought this one was a pullet until recently.
 
Working on my own version of a Black Sex Link. Currently the chicks are only a week old but I will post updates as they grow up for reference purposes. Here is the parent stock: Father is a Buff Orpington Rooster Mother is a Cuckoo Marans hen (not necessarily this one but it's just to show what the breed looks like.) And this is what the offspring look like: All the female chicks should come out like the one on the left, solid black with a reddish buff face and undercolor. All the males will be a lighter overall shade with a white or pale dot on the top of the head, like the chick on the right. That dot represents the barring, or in this case, cuckoo gene that he got from his mother. The females do not get this gene. I am SO excited about this cross that I couldn't wait to post pics. I will post more as they start to change, and post a final set of pics later this fall once they are fully feathered out.
Just wandering if they have started to featger out yet?
 
Just wandering if they have started to featger out yet?

Not much. They are in an outside brooder right now. The two from the above pic are two weeks old today. They have feathers on the wings but that's about it. Once they are about 4-6 weeks old, I will post an update. I've had a bunch more hatch since then and I am keeping all of them until maturity for the sake of this project.
 

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