Are my barred black olive Egger/welsummer chicks autosexing?

[Whitepines]

I bred my barred olive Egger hen back to my welsummer rooster to see if I can get speckled olive eggs. Half the chicks have welsummer coloring and half are black. Are they autosexing? I’d love to be able to rehome a few definite pullet chicks to a lady in the city. She can’t have roosters

 

[3KillerBs]

Any non-barred rooster x barred hen pairing creates sexlinks -- solid females and barred males regardless of the other colors.

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

They are half welsummer patterns and half black because the olive egger is half and half already. The blacks are when she passed on the extended black, the other half was the recessive duckwing. These overall patterns aren’t sex link, but look for big white spots in heads, as well as the lack of distinct ‘eyeliner’ in the welsummer patterns. These are males, while solid black and usual chipmunk, bold eyeliner chicks are female.

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

Here are some pictures, the black chick with the white head spot is male. The male duckwing chicks should also have a white spot as they too are barred.

 

[Whitepines]

Thank you! It looks like I was lucky enough to get six pullets, a cockerel and a ? who is probably a cockerel. I will recommend she takes the black ones just in case I’m wrong on the chipmunk colored babies. I actually was planning to keep them all to see what egg color I’d get, but I think I would have to actually breed this generation back to a rooster carrying a blue gene to end up with a speckled olive layer and I’m not sure I really care about egg color that much when I’d be using several coops for them instead of continuing work on my favorelles or mottled Cochins.

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

Thank you! It looks like I was lucky enough to get six pullets, a cockerel and a ? who is probably a cockerel. I will recommend she takes the black ones just in case I’m wrong on the chipmunk colored babies. I actually was planning to keep them all to see what egg color I’d get, but I think I would have to actually breed this generation back to a rooster carrying a blue gene to end up with a speckled olive layer and I’m not sure I really care about egg color that much when I’d be using several coops for them instead of continuing work on my favorelles or mottled Cochins.

Do you have any pictures of them so we could help you?

 

[Whitepines]

Not good ones. They are day old and I just quickly moved them from the incubator to the brooder.

 

[BlueTheBrahma]

Here’s my take. You’ve been very lucky.
Edit: duckwing chick on the bottom picture next to the cockerel may also be a cockerel.

 

[SeabassSarmale]

View attachment 3402837View attachment 3402838Here’s my take. You’ve been very lucky.
Edit: duckwing chick on the bottom picture next to the cockerel may also be a cockerel.

There cute if that’s what your wondering