Barred Rock rooster x on 2 Production Brown hens, 1 smaller Easter Egger & 2 RIR hens

[Connie Wallace]

I have a lovely Barred Rock Rooster. We hatched 5 eggs in the incubator. One egg was blue from my small Easter Egger, two dark brown from the RIR, and two lighter brown from my ISA Brown hens. Since we were gone when they hatched, I have no clue who hatched out of which colored egg. Wish I did. The babies are two white with black spots and solid white wings, one pale yellow with barred wings, one reddish brown with barred wings, and one black with silver underneath. Any chance these could be sexed by color as chicks or must I wait til they grow up and see who is a rooster? Since they are hybrid hens crossed with a Barred Rock Rooster I did not know if any of the sex link characteristics might be passed. They are about 5 days old in this picture today.






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[wilkinsfarm2020]

Following your babies are adorable

 

[chrissynemetz]

They wouldn't be sex linked because the barred Rock was the rooster. But they're SO cute!!

 

[wilkinsfarm2020]

I'm just going to take a guess and see if it's right but I'm think 3 pullets and 2 cockerels lol

 

[chrissynemetz]

They're way too little for me to even guess yet lol

 

[wilkinsfarm2020]

They're way too little for me to even guess yet lol

I'm just going with my gut I suppose. Curious to see if I'm right

 

[Frazzemrat1]

way too young to sex, and I'd have to wait for feathers to come in to even try to figure out who was who's mom.
And agreed, definitely no sex links. You have to have a barred hen for that, not the barred rooster.

 

[Connie Wallace]

I'm just going to take a guess and see if it's right but I'm think 3 pullets and 2 cockerels lol

Which do you think are which?

 

[LittleDragons]

I have a lovely Barred Rock Rooster. We hatched 5 eggs in the incubator. One egg was blue from my small Easter Egger, two dark brown from the RIR, and two lighter brown from my ISA Brown hens. Since we were gone when they hatched, I have no clue who hatched out of which colored egg. Wish I did. The babies are two white with black spots and solid white wings, one pale yellow with barred wings, one reddish brown with barred wings, and one black with silver underneath. Any chance these could be sexed by color as chicks or must I wait til they grow up and see who is a rooster? Since they are hybrid hens crossed with a Barred Rock Rooster I did not know if any of the sex link characteristics might be passed. They are about 5 days old in this picture today.






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Post plenty of updates! I can never get enough of mixes!
(My favorite is the orange one )

 

[Connie Wallace]

The orange baby on top ended up being a red hen, the black a solid crow black hen, two of the white were white hens with black blotches, one white with black and barred wings is probably a rooster. They are beautiful chicks now at 8 weeks.