barred rock X buff Orpington

[rabbitguy]

New to chicken breeding. What would a barred rock male crossed to a female buff Orpington be? Vice versa?

 

[nicalandia]

New to chicken breeding. What would a barred rock male crossed to a female buff Orpington be? Vice versa?

BR male over BO hen will give you all black chicks with a headspot. so no sex links here

a BO male over a BR hen will give you sex links, Males will have a white headspot and females will be all black

 

[rabbitguy]

Cool! What would the names of the two different crosses be?

 

[rocasocks]

Red males over Barred females are generally just called black sex-links.

 

[rabbitguy]

Thanks rocasocks! Wonder what the other would be called?

 

[maryhysong]

BR male over BO hen will give you all black chicks with a headspot. so no sex links here

a BO male over a BR hen will give you sex links, Males will have a white headspot and females will be all black

my girls had gold/rust color right around their beaks. Turned out to be really pretty gold and black, have two that started laying tiny pullet eggs at 16 weeks.

 

[rabbitguy]

Is that the barred male over the BO female? Very pretty birds!

 

[maryhysong]

Is that the barred male over the BO female? Very pretty birds!

no, BO boy over barred girls. They are really pretty; one has a more solid black hindquarter with some gold shafting, the other two or more even gold & black. Thinking of breeding to my EE boys .... to see what I get

 

[nicalandia]

my girls had gold/rust color right around their beaks. Turned out to be really pretty gold and black, have two that started laying tiny pullet eggs at 16 weeks.

I was telling him how they would hatch, and at hatch all of them will be black with a headspot if he use a BR over a BO hen.. now the BO have very strong columbian restrictors and this will ofcourse make them show lots of ground color, be it gold or silver when adults

 

[maryhysong]

I was telling him how they would hatch, and at hatch all of them will be black with a headspot if he use a BR over a BO hen.. now the BO have very strong columbian restrictors and this will ofcourse make them show lots of ground color, be it gold or silver when adults

that makes more sense; there were a couple pure black in the hatch but I sold them so not sure but there were probably pullets. All of the ones that had black and white were all boys. They are very fast growing and were big enough to eat at 3 months