Crossbreeding questions

[treslilbirds]

Happy New year all!
Curious if anyone knows what you'd get crossing a California white roo with either a barred rock, black Australorp, or RIR hen?

My mom is getting me a new incubator as a late Christmas present and I'm curious what I might end up with from my current flock.

Cheers and TIA

 

[Frog Bog]

You'd end up with a mutt chicken. California whites are crossbred to begin with.

Nothing wrong with mutt chickens, but hatching energy should be invested toward heritage chickens imo.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

California white x barred rock would give you white chicks with black spots (like austra whites). Males would have barring on the black spots. California white x black australorp would give you the same, minus the barring. California white x RIR would give you mostly red chicks with red points (like red sexlinks).

 

[treslilbirds]

Ok! Thanks! I was more curious if any of my combos would make sexlinks. I've actually managed to hatch some mutt chicks in the past that grew into very sweet, beautiful chickens. My original plan was to hatch purebreeds but the coyotes got to a lot of my flock before i could start. Lost all my Speckled Sussexes and Laced Wyandottes to the dang coyotes and stray dogs.

Anyway. Thanks for the insight!

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Ok! Thanks! I was more curious if any of my combos would make sexlinks. I've actually managed to hatch some mutt chicks in the past that grew into very sweet, beautiful chickens. My original plan was to hatch purebreeds but the coyotes got to a lot of my flock before i could start. Lost all my Speckled Sussexes and Laced Wyandottes to the dang coyotes and stray dogs.

Anyway. Thanks for the insight!

If he has recessive white instead of dominant white, then the barred rock cross will make sex links.