Black sexlinks

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

In that case, this rooster will not work for producing sexlink chicks with Barred Rock hens.

The males should probably carry barring though, right? just very hard to see since the black part of the barring is also white... if I'm correct.

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

The males should probably carry barring though, right? just very hard to see since the black part of the barring is also white... if I'm correct.

I've heard of it happening with white leghorns roosters being crossed with legbar hens

 

[NatJ]

The males should probably carry barring though, right? just very hard to see since the black part of the barring is also white... if I'm correct.

Two threads just got combined into one, so you may not have noticed that I said this:

If the Australorp has Dominant White, all chicks will be white, so you probably will not be able to see which chicks inherited barring (light dot on head) and which did not.

And there is the possible problem of this:

If the Australorp has white barring in addition to other white genes, then his chicks will not be sexlinks. And because white barring is not exactly obvious on a white bird, you can't really tell by looking at him.

 

[Sir Sacabambaspis]

Two threads just got combined into one, so you may not have noticed that I said this:

Yup, I was like "oh goodness, how had I not see all the other stuff people had said!?"

And there is the possible problem of this:

Oh yeah, true!