Ameraucana-Barred rock mix.

[Bigwig]

What's the result if I cross an Ameraucana rooster with a barred rock hen?

 

[Pyxis]

You'll get black sex links. Pullet chicks will hatch without a spot on their head, while cockerels will have a head spot.

 

[junebuggena]

I think that would depend on what color the rooster is. It would be hard to see the white spot that indicates barring on the light down of a wheaten or white.

 

[Pyxis]

I think that would depend on what color the rooster is. It would be hard to see the white spot that indicates barring on the light down of a wheaten or white.

Very true. They would still be sex links though and you'd be able to gender by whether they are barred or not. The males would be barred and the females would not, so by the time they grow out their wing feathers you could probably tell.

 

[Michael OShay]

You'll get black sex links. Pullet chicks will hatch without a spot on their head, while cockerels will have a head spot.

I think that would depend on what color the rooster is. It would be hard to see the white spot that indicates barring on the light down of a wheaten or white.

Very true. They would still be sex links though and you'd be able to gender by whether they are barred or not. The males would be barred and the females would not, so by the time they grow out their wing feathers you could probably tell.

X2 on all three of the above posts. With a white or very light colored rooster, the chicks would still be Black Sex Links, but you would not be able to see the white spot and sex them as chicks. However, when the feathers came in, the cockerels would be barred.

 

[Bigwig]

My rooster is a Blue-red ameraucana.

 

[junebuggena]

Is he an Easter Egger or pure Ameraucana? He should work to make a black sexlink, but if he's a pure blue wheaten Ameraucana, the sexlink traits would be hard to see at hatch. It would also affect egg color of his female chicks.

 

[Bigwig]

Is he an Easter Egger or pure Ameraucana? He should work to make a black sexlink, but if he's a pure blue wheaten Ameraucana, the sexlink traits would be hard to see at hatch. It would also affect egg color of his female chicks.

He is a pure ameraucana. He has a golden and red saddle, a blue tail, tan hackles, and red and blue wings.

 

[junebuggena]

But did you get him from a breeder or a feed store/hatchery?

 

[Bigwig]

But did you get him from a breeder or a feed store/hatchery?

I got him from a hatchery.