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No. I don't do buff. I mostly stick with the dark colors.

Any sex links produced in the back yard flock will have hybrid vigor. They may or may not be better layers than the parent stock. IMO, sexlinks produced in the back yard flock will not have the reproductive issues that are seen in the high production sexlink birds sold by the hatcheries. I...

I did get leg color sexing with my slate leg EE roo x willow legged Pioneer. All her dtrs had the willow legs, while her sons had yellow legs. (All of my male Pioneers from the previous season had yellow legs, and all of the females had willow colored legs) I have one cockrel who has slate...

All you have to do is go to the first post of this thread. I go there first, then, if I can't find the info in the charts, folks are great about helping. I find that I have to read those charts over and over and over to help get my mind wrapped around the possibilities. And, they don't help...

If your roo is your avatar, I doubt that you'll get sex links from him. He appears to have a lot of white in him. But, he'll certainly produce nice chicks. What do you have for hens???

What about taking your thoughts in a different direction: If you put a black Ameraucana Roo over your flock, he'd make BSL with any barred female. And, the resulting BSL, depending on their breed would produce green or blue eggs. I haven't played with the red sex linkage yet. My EE roo (my...

I had a surprise with my last (of 3 hatches) this season. Absolutely ALL of the yellow legged chicks were male. Same with this last hatch. And all of the willow green legged chicks were female... in the first 2 hatches. But... in this last hatch, there is one little cockrel who has willow...

I've made BSL with RIR x PBR, EE x PBR, EE x Dom, EE x SLW. I'm now in a toss up about continuing with Dom or switching over to SLW for my EE x ? crosses. The good thing about the SLW is that they make a very nice meaty rooster. Dom roos too compact for the table. PBR is certainly a good...

So, if I understand what you are saying, the black pigment in legs and combs is a result of the barring gene which does not show up in the feathers because the feathers are all black? My RCBL is brown, not black. Thanks for the explanation, Kev. So, with the genetic throw of the dice, using...

All of the youngsters from this year's hatch have now been definitely sexed. (All are sired by my avatar roo) Black sex links are obvious: EE x SLW and DOM: females black with slate legs. Males bear feather pattern of Mom's w/red bleed However, there are some nice surprises. Leg colors...

Not sex linked, but a fun trait showing up in my barn yard mixes: I was having a hard time figuring out which chicks came from which hens. But, a lot of them are now presenting with white ear lobes. (I have 3 RCBL hens in my flock.) Nice distinguishing feature. But, if these chicks produce...

My long range plan is to breed a small combed bird that does well in our northern climate. And yes, I am culling for flock improvement, keeping only the best. I started out last year with an extremely varied gene pool (deliberately) and will see how things develop from there. Sex links are a...

No. As a matter of fact, the first year, I hatched BSL from RIR x PBR. That pullet had a very black comb as did her sisters from the same breeding. (The BSL roosters were all "normal colored combs") As she matured, it became red, though there are still some black dots at the base. The next...

Also, I'm having a hard time identifying the female chicks from my EE roo x SLW hen. The males have a real nice SL pattern, and are obvious. But, as I didn't mark the eggs b/c they were mixed up with all the rest of the brown eggs, I don't know who is who! There are black chicks with black...

Thanks, all for the comments regarding the random white feathers that show up.

I'd like to go back to a previous comment made regarding white feathers showing up in a predominantly red or partridge colored hen. (And am I even getting the coloring right, when I refer to Rose comb brown leghorn being partridge colored??) One of my RCBL hens has a white tail feather. This...

Yes, according to the chart in the first entry.

Any thoughts about leg color being a possible indicator of gender? I have some EE x Pioneer chicks. The Pioneer mother has light green legs. All the Pioneer males (long since gone to freezer camp) of that batch had bright yellow legs. Some of the EE x Pioneer chicks have yellow legs, a few...

NICE!!!