Crossing Buff Orpingtons with Barred Rocks?

[ndemerly]

If I breed a Buff rooster over a Barred hen does anyone know what they'll look like, or even have pictures to share? Seems like a good meat cross to me, Thanks!

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

You should get black sex-links. It does sound like a pretty good dual purpose/meat cross.

 

[RAREROO]

As long as you breed a BO ROO with Barred Rock HENS, not the other way around, you will get sexlinks.


Look here at my first post on the Sexlink thread and you will see mine from that cross.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=375015

 

[devin0]

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What would happen if it were the other way around?

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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What would happen if it were the other way around?

They would still be good layers and decent dual purpose birds, but they would not be sexable at hatch.

 

[devin0]

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What would happen if it were the other way around?

They would still be good layers and decent dual purpose birds, but they would not be sexable at hatch.

What color would the chicks be?

 

[speckledhen]

They would all look like badly barred Barred Rocks with a BR sire.


Here are some that Cuban Longtails hatched years ago out of my BR roo over Buff Orp hens, pics grabbed from an old thread on the forum:

 

[RAREROO]

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Yep, they would all be barred, some may be as clean as a pure barred rock and some have varying buff leakage and may look close to Buff barred

 

[speckledhen]

Added pics to my post above of that cross.

 

[Chickanmanfromarkansas]

speckledhen, I sure like that hen in the top picture. The rooster is pretty too but that hen I would love to have a whole flcok of them. What was the cross or crooses done to get them?