Two years ago my daughter did a wonderful crossbreeding of a Buff Orpington Roo over Barred Rock hens and we got wonderful layers and big, fast growing cockerels and they also turned out sex-linked.
This year we were looking to repeating the crossbreeding, however the set-up we used had a...
This shows the darkness and clearness variability of 4 of the Barred looking chicks.
This is one of the pure black chicks.
This is the lightest colored barred chick.
And the darkest colored barred chick.
One of the 2 that look like the original cross (Buff x Barred) from 2...
This is a first Generation Cross Roo...Buff Orp Roo over Barred Rock Hens...They came out sex linked.
This is one of the 2nd Generation Crosses...from the Roo above over the 1st Generation hens of the same breeding...non-sex-linked.
This is the other 2nd Generation Cross Roo...same mixture...
These are my daughter's 3 Golden Laced Standard Cochin Cockerels. We have them for sale...we aren't breeders and have no use for roosters. We are located in Southeast Wyoming if you know of anyone in this region who might be looking for some. Not sure how they stack up breed wise..the two...
These are the first generation crosses, and parent birds to the 2nd gens shown above. the white and black is the rooster, and the black and copper is the hen. The roosters of the 1st generation were prolific growers and the hens were great layers.
Has anyone on here ever bred the Sex Link offspring of a Buff Roo & Barred Rock Hens? The first generation sexlinked crosses are beautiful, but we were wondering what happens if we breed the sex link roo to the sex link hens. Does anyone have an info on this?