crossing barred rocks with others....

[bmiss]

i'm wanting to get sum "country chickens" that will never be taken to a show...but they will provide eggs and eventually meat.

i would like to have a variety..... and i love the way the barred rocks look. if you were gonna cross with a barred rocks, what type of birds would you cross with it?

 

[donrae]

Well, the nice thing about barred rock hens is if you put them under a nonbarred rooster, the offspring are sex-linked. The males will have a white headspot and grow up barred, the females will have a solid head and grow up non-barred. Bonus! I've seen some buff orp roo over barred rock hen pics on here--search around-- and they're very pretty hens and great layers from what I hear.

 

[allmychickens]

Not all nonbarred roosters will make it a sex-link! ... im no expert but i think the rooster has to have a red gene.... (RIR, BO, NH...)

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Incorrect. You are thinking about red sexlinks, which require a red male and a silver female. This thread is about black sex-links, where barring is the sex-linked gene, not silver/gold. For black sex-links you need a barred female and a non-barred male.

 

[tadkerson]

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Read this


https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261208