Any Ideas on the blue with red leakage? Bad Blue Jubilee or just some random anomaly from his heritage. Or is this what a Blue Jubilee Orpington rooster looks like at 12 weeks??
Not 100% sure what happened with the blue rooster. He came from a batch of hatching eggs I ordered that were Blue Black Splash, Blue Jubilee, and Jubilee. Here is a picture. He is 12 Weeks old.
Thanks for the quick replies.
Yep! I know it's just that first generation. I have red and black Sex Link hens now. I cross them with my Silver Spangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben to get replacement supper egger hens that are actually quite stunning slender bodied, tight feathered black with...
Help Please. The more I read, the more gets jumbled in my head and not sure which way to go. I would like to create sex linked large bodied (dual purpose) birds. I have several that could potentially work, but I need to lighten up my rooster load, so trying to choose what I need.
Here is...
I suspected that would be the answer. My only full size roosters are a Spitzhauben and a Cuckoo Marans. While they both produce nice offspring (so far), I was hoping to do some sex linking. I do have a juvenile RIR that came by accident from feed store. But my other roosters are so mellow...
Great information in the first post. Pretty straight forward and easy to follow. But I still can't find the info I'm curious about. Is there any way to create a sex linked chick using a silver spangled Spitzhauben rooster? I have hens of several breeds. Buff Orpington, RIR, Cuckoo Marans...