Can Jersey giants be speckled like barred rock?

[Beer can]

Ugghh, definitely not a jersey giant.
Pretty rooster though.
Like stated above, solid black, solid white, blue and splash, anytime you have blue you will have splash, all have slate grey to dark legs and should have brown eyes.
I have white jersey's.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

A black sex link is produced by breeding a solid colored rooster over a barred female, like a barred rock. It produces chicks that are sexable at hatch. The females will be all black, the males black with a white spot on the back of the head, indicating a barring gene, which can only be passed from the barred hen to her male chicks. My understanding is most hatchery sex links are RIR roosters over barred rock hens. This guy could be a BJG rooster over a barred rock hen, which would give him size... but he's definitely not all jersey giant (if he has it in his breeding at all). Both BJG and BR have yellow legs, which he doesn't.
who knows at this point.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Some type of mixed breed.
He is barred as you thought.

 

[NiteHawk]

was looking at the black sex linked rooster on google which is similar to ours, however the hen was the same color as the rooster, so wouldn't that mean it wasn't a sex linked breed?

 

[April’s Zoo]

however the hen was the same color as the rooster, so wouldn't that mean it wasn't a sex linked breed?

I think “sex link” only refers to a color difference between male and female at hatch and does not have any bearing on their overall adult coloration.... in other words, the adults can have similar coloration in males and females, but at hatch the chicks will have differences which will allow for sexing immediately.

 

[The Moonshiner]

The idea of a sex link is for the chicks to look different at hatch but that difference will carry into a different look as adults also.
A black sex link works with the barring gene. Male chicks hatch with the barring gene so they have a head spot at hatch. The females do not have barring so no head spot.
As adults males have barring and females do not so you're correct if his sibling female was also barred like him they weren't from a sex link producing cross.
Black sex links work by crossing a non barred male to a barred female.
Someone could use the same breeds but cross a barred male to non barred female and it would produce the same cross bred chick but all chicks would be barred eliminating the sex link trait but producing the same looking male chicks but female chicks would also look the same.
Hope that makes sense.

 

[April’s Zoo]

Man, apparently the whole sex-link vs. auto-sexing vs. whatever the other sexable-at-hatch chicks are, still confuses me.....
Good thing someone here understands it....
I’ll just bow out now, and read more I guess.

And now back to regularly-scheduled programming....

 

[Rose Quartz]

A black sex link is produced by breeding a solid colored rooster over a barred female, like a barred rock. It produces chicks that are sexable at hatch. The females will be all black, the males black with a white spot on the back of the head, indicating a barring gene, which can only be passed from the barred hen to her male chicks. My understanding is most hatchery sex links are RIR roosters over barred rock hens. This guy could be a BJG rooster over a barred rock hen, which would give him size... but he's definitely not all jersey giant (if he has it in his breeding at all). Both BJG and BR have yellow legs, which he doesn't.
who knows at this point.

@AMERAUCANAS4REAL would a BR and Jersey Giant carry white leg genes?


My 2 cents: if it was a barred roo over a solid color the hen would have barring too just not as much light color. Im seeing yellow in his light feathers. And i know that has to do with red feathering genes but thats it so far.

A solid color male over a barred female would produce barred males and solid females. (Ive crossed plenty of them )

 

[Amer]

@AMERAUCANAS4REAL would a BR and Jersey Giant carry white leg genes?


My 2 cents: if it was a barred roo over a solid color the hen would have barring too just not as much light color. Im seeing yellow in his light feathers. And i know that has to do with red feathering genes but thats it so far.

A solid color male over a barred female would produce barred males and solid females. (Ive crossed plenty of them )

BR have yellow legs. JG would have white leg gene, but yellow skin.

 

[alices]

I think it is a barred rock--my opinion, the gal insisted jersey giant,,
what do you think..

I just got some from tsc that are looking like this and they are sold as jersey g.they seem to be bigger them other chicks