Blue Plymouth Rock roo x barred rock hen

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I’m trying to look at them all and I see more than the 2 I knew for sure... so moonshine is probably right about the genetics
These two for sure
But suspect of two others

 

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But I think one of my Australorp pullets May have been mid identified at the hatchery.....

 

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If you have a Welsummer rooster you can make Black Sex Links if you put him with your Barred Rock hens.

Are your Ameraucana true Ameraucana or are they EE's? If you have a true Ameraucana rooster, which approved color/pattern is he? What approved color/pattern are any Ameraucana hens? If they are not an approved color/pattern they are not true Ameraucana.

Same questions for the Marans. What color/pattern males do you have? What color/pattern females? What do we have to work with?

I can't come up with any sex link with a Cream Legbar male. A Cream Legbar hen is barred so you might get a Black Sex Link if you have the right color/pattern male.

I can not think of any use for the Australorp pullets to make sex links.

A Welsummer of Marans rooster over a CL or Ameraucana hen could give you an olive egger pullet. A CL or Ameraucana rooster over a Welsummer or Marans hen could give you and olive egger pullet. Whether or not these could be sex links depends on the color/pattern of the Marans or Ameraucana.

Any use for my Australorp rooster since my 5 girls are actually 4 girls
And 1 boy

 

[Ridgerunner]

Is there any “project” involving a few generations that can sex link the blue Plymouth’s? I’ve got time lol..

Yes, a few. Breed your Sapphire Gems. About half the males should be barred, half not-barred. About half the females should be barred, half not barred. Moonshiner went over this. You need one of the not-barred males.

The Blue color complicates it. The Blue feather gene is an incompletely dominant gene. If both genes at that gene pair are Blue, you get a Splash chicken. If only one gene at that gene pair is the Blue gene, you get a Blue chicken. If none at that gene pair are blue, you get a Black chicken. So when you breed Blue to Blue, you should get about 1/4 Splash, 1/2 Blue, and 1/4 Black. Your Sapphire Gems are made by crossing a Splash Andalusian rooster to a Barred Rock hen so all the chicks are Blue. So you may need to hatch a lot of these Blue x Blue crosses to get the colors/patterns you want.

Or you can cross the Sapphire Gem rooster with an Ameraucana hen if you get one. Half the male offspring will be barred, half not. Same with the females from this cross, half barred, half not barred so no sex links. Choose a not-barred rooster. Or you can cross a solid-colored Ameraucana rooster over your Sapphire Gem hens. All the offspring should be not-barred. The colors you get will depend on whether you cross Blue with Blue or Black with Blue.

Put a not-barred rooster over a barred hen. That could be a Barred Rock hen or one of the barred pullets from your Sapphire Gem cross. What colors you get will depend on what colors you elect to breed. If you choose a combination that can produce Splash you probably will not be able to see the spot on the head at hatch so you can't sex the Splash chicks. You can get Splash if you cross Splash with Blue or Blue with Blue. But a not-barred rooster over a barred hen will produce black sex links if you can see the spot due to down color.

Oh... what will the ameracauna sex links look like? Will they retain the adorable muffs?

The muffs are a dominant gene so the offspring should have them. But since they will not be pure for that gene (both genes at that gene pair will not be muff) they may not be as distinct as on your pure Ameraucana.

 

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This will be fun!!!

 

[Ridgerunner]

Any use for my Australorp rooster since my 5 girls are actually 4 girls
And 1 boy

You can use the Australorp male instead of an Ameraucana male in the above. Or an Australorp hen instead of an Ameraucana hen.

 

[GaryDean26]

I can't come up with any sex link with a Cream Legbar male.

The Cream Legbar Male is a gold based breed and the Blue Barrded Plymouth Rock are a Silver Based Breed so if you cross the Plymoth Rock hens with the Cream Legbar cockerels you will get gold barred Pullets and silver Barred cockerels.

 

[The Moonshiner]

The Cream Legbar Male is a gold based breed and the Blue Barrded Plymouth Rock are a Silver Based Breed so if you cross the Plymoth Rock hens with the Cream Legbar cockerels you will get gold barred Pullets and silver Barred cockerels.

Chicks will hatch either black or blue so you wouldn't see or know which are gold or which are silver/gold

 

[GaryDean26]

Chicks will hatch either black or blue so you wouldn't see or know which are gold or which are silver/gold

Just trying to be creative and think outside the box. I may have not found a way to color sex day-old chicks but I did find a sex-link with a Cream Legbar cockerel.

I did some of these Gold/Silver crosses this year and yes... they were all black at day-old, but the gold/silver coloring came in before the cockerel combs started to grow so this cross does make it possible to color sexing from chicks before the cockerels start to grow their combs which make sexing possible earlier than waiting for combs on the cockerels to come in.

 

[The Moonshiner]

What kind of cross? Legbar rooster over what?
I was looking at sex links as meaning being able to sex at hatch so that's why I said it wouldn't work.
There are ways to use CCL roosters for sex links. Just breed to a silver duckwing hen.
You could use silver legbars, silver leghorns, silver duckwing phoenix, silver amerauvana, silver duckwing games, etc. etc.

I liked the "thinking outside the box" comment. Inside the box is too crowded. Outside the box is unlimited.