Yep! Sexlinks. It sounds like your rooster passed the id+ gene, the sexlinked dermal melanin gene, to his daughters. While daughters need only one copy, sons need too. Whether it can be determined at hatch is beyond me.
Some times chicks with id+ express it from hatch and other times they don’t until a few weeks later. There is more than one allelic mutation of id+ and I don’t know what Ameraucanas have.
Some times chicks with id+ express it from hatch and other times they don’t until a few weeks later. There is more than one allelic mutation of id+ and I don’t know what Ameraucanas have.