Are you trying to make the barred more pronounced or was this an accidental breeding? He's a very handsomely colored rooster. Really loving the Andalusian feel with the barring.Depends what is bred to what. I have some beards and I have birds that had a bearded parent but no beards themselves.
I had no idea I’d get a blue Barred. All the others were tradional black sex link cockerels. I was just wanting sex links so I’d know at hatch what I had. The Andalusian roo over the hens had a great outcome of color in the chicks and adult offspring.
Trying not to hijack the original poster...but being new to genetics. Covering with a sex link rooster gets you sex link kiddies?
no. Sexlink is a one time thing. That’s why you can’t buy both genders of sexlinks and get more sexlink offspring.
No, covering a barred hen with a solid rooster (that isn't dominant white like a leghorn) gets you Black Sex Links (girls are black with some possible leakage, boys are barred with possible leakage). Covering Silver based white hens (like Delawares or White Rocks) with Red colored rooster gets you Red Sex Links (white males with red leakage, red females with white leakage).
Were they EEs or pure Amerucana? EEs are well known for not having been bred with care to be homozygous (two copies off the gene) for pea comb or beards muffs.
Pretty sure you two just blew my mind...this stuff is fascinating. I had no idea 'we' could make our own variants of sex-links at home, thought there was more science or isolation involved.
Well, if you have more than one rooster, I would isolate the bunch you want to breed for at least a month before collecting eggs to hatch, as hens can store sperm for up to a month. Hatcheries do have their own "specialized" parent breeds (that are nothing like the standard) so that they get a sex link bird that is geared towards egg production and not temperament, longevity, health, etc. If you have good parent stock and want some sexlinks, you can make them yourself if you know what you are doing. In fact, the chocolate coloring can be used to make purebred sexlinks. If you put a chocolate rooster over black hens of the same breed, you will get chocolate females and black (split for chocolate) males. Females only need one copy of the Chocolate gene to express the trait (which they get from their sire), while males need two copies to express it.
I didn’t breed them. I got eggs from a breeder and some eggs from a friend. I know the beardless Olive egger hatched from a dark green egg and the Dad was a welsummer. But no idea what the breeder stock was, they lay blue eggs and were hatched from blue.
Ok for instance, if I was to use a Chantecler rooster (White Variety) I would need him to cover say a Austrolorp or Barred Rock hen to get this?
