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I have never seen a "recipe" for an autosexing blue bird, I believe it is impossible, genetically. Autosexing is not a single trait that can be incorporated into a breed, but a combination of traits that must either be present or absent to get any amount of autosexing.
Even a blue sexlink has proven impossible in my experience, though this might be possible with the right parents and a keen eye. The best you can do (IMO) is to incorporate an early sexing trait like single combs, and select for early comb development in the males, then you can cull the males at just a few weeks. In that sense, Whiting Blues, Arkansas Blues, or something similar, will give you a good start.
What happens to the patterns in the CLs , they just stop happening ng once we cross them? oh, I thought by crossing an autosexing breed female with a non but blue male, the babies would keep the pattern from mom...??
Well, lol scrap that. I don't really care about making a sexlink yet; I can tell a cockerel from day one anyway lol