Cream legbar hen X Ameraucana rooster

[wortham]

If I cross my cream legbar hen with an ameraucana rooster I'm sure I would get good blue egg layers. Any chance they would be autosexing?

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

@The Moonshiner will know.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

If your rooster is a solid dark color and your hen is barred they should be.

 

[lilmillefleur]

x2

 

[naf_appaz]

Don't know, good question! I'll be watching for an answer. I was considering getting some cream legbar hens this spring and wondered the same, although I have an EE x blue maran rooster to cross them with.

 

[Hufflefluff]

If your rooster is a solid dark color and your hen is barred they should be.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't that sex-linked, not autosexing? I can't speak from experience, but I'm pretty sure the chicks of any chicks hatched from this parentage would not be sex linked or autosexing- this type of breeding would only work for the first cross. If I'm wrong, I'd love to be corrected.

 

[The Moonshiner]

If I cross my cream legbar hen with an ameraucana rooster I'm sure I would get good blue egg layers. Any chance they would be autosexing?

They have the combination to be sex links but not auto sexing for more than the first generation.
What is your ameraucana? He he a color pure true ameraucana or just a mixed color hatchery ameraucana?
If you know his genes you could figure out what color the chicks would be.
If he is unknown genetics then it will be a matter of whether the offspring were a color that you can easily see a head spot or not.
They don't have to be a solid color many color/patterns will work its just harder to see the head spot on some lighter colors and really hard on like buff/yellow chicks.

 

[rebrascora]

@Hufflefluff
You are correct. This cross will effectively make black sex links with the colour linkage only occurring in the first generation.... males will have a white head spot and become barred. Females will be black with some colour leakage from the sire. Autosexing is where second generations and beyond are reliably able to be sexed at hatch and the offspring breed true.

 

[wortham]

Ok. That answered a couple of questions yall. Thank you so much. My roosters are from TSC. I have three to chose from. Two light colored and a dark rust color(forgive the newbie terms). But they are Easter egger ameraucanas I guess coming from tsc. So. Just to clarify for me. Autosexing is from a pure breed that can be sexed at birth from generation to generation. But certain crosses like I am gonna try would be considered sex linked. And will only be sexable at hatch from the original cross? You are all so helpful and encouraging. Lookin forward to sharing some good results from this information. Thanks again yall

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't that sex-linked, not autosexing?

Yes, nice catch.

They would be sex linked.

And moonshiner has lots of good info there.

I meant to mention... that when I say solid color... I mean even like the black copper Marans that has a dark base and reddish wings, and copper hackles... it's still VERY clear on them.