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Correct, a Barred Rock rooster is not a good choice if you want to breed Sexlinks. He has all the genes you want in the mother of a sexlink, but is all wrong as the father. Rhode Island Reds are a common choice of rooster for producing sexlinks. They have the right genes to produce gold/silver...

I do not think there is a specific name for a cross of Black Copper Marans rooster with Silver Laced Wyandotte hen. The chicks should be sexlinks (gold daughters, silver sons), but they will also have a lot of black. There might be so much black that sexing by color is not actually practical...

I was just reading another thread, and got reminded: if you keep the cockerel who was at the top of the pecking order, his behavior is less likely to change when you remove others. If you remove the dominant cockerel to keep one of the others, the one you keep may change his behavior now that...

A Welsummer rooster can produce red sexlinks too, with some kinds of hens. Examples of hens that would work: Columbian Rock, Delaware, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Silver Spangled Hamburg. It doesn't work with hens that are all black, or ones that have much gold/red in their coloring, and usually...

I've seen mixed results on that one. I think it is still a bit better than males raised alone, because they had a better chance to get straight the distinction between humans and chickens. There is also the option of keeping the best two males, if they are not causing problems for each other or...

Letting a cockerel grow up with pullets can work sometimes, and other times it does not work so well. You have to figure that one out by watching as it happens. Letting the hens grow up first and then adding a rooster is definitely one option that can work well. As regards warning about...

Are you planning to get them as adults, or start with young chicks? If you start with adults, I would suggest getting what you think is the right number, and see how it goes. But if you raise them from chicks, and if you are willing to eat chickens you have raised, I would suggest getting...