EE barred rock cross chick

[RoostersAreAwesome]

The father was a Buff Orpington/Barred Rock cross. The mother was a Buff Orpington/Australorp cross.
FatherView attachment 1978251 MotherView attachment 1978252 This is their son from earlier this spring.View attachment 1978254 I don't have any baby pictures of him, sorry.

The father has a single copy of the barring gene, so can pass it on to both his female and male chicks.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

I'm not sure how accurate this is, but someone told me that the chicks don't necessarily sexlink if the rooster is white/part white. Could that be the case? I'm new to chicken genetics so I have no idea if that's true

Your rooster is splash with red leakage. Splash x black makes blue chicks.

I'm not agruing, or trying to argue. I'm voting female, you're voting male. I just want to see who's correct. There's just that 1% chance of it being female.
For example, I got 1 solid colored offspring in my crele Orpington project.

The rooster you use is single barred. So that means he can make unbarred offspring.

 

[FolkSonginC]

Hi everyone! I forgot to update, but he's pretty big now, and has some barring coming in, and surprisingly, some iridescent feathers, too. It looks as if some of the barred feathers have a little tinge of brown, I think as he gets older he will have some brown/red feathers. It also looks like he's a boy, he has some pretty long droopy tail feathers. Here are some pictures.

 

[FolkSonginC]

You can't see in the pictures. but he also has a few solid white wing feathers. I wonder if he will retain his grey color or become completely barred

 

[FolkSonginC]

Here they are with spouting feathers.View attachment 1978209 View attachment 1978211

looking back over this thread -- can't get over how cute these guys are! what do they look like now? I definitely want to mess around with genetics some more.

 

[MysteryChicken]

looking back over this thread -- can't get over how cute these guys are! what do they look like now? I definitely want to mess around with genetics some more.

How old is the bird?

 

[MysteryChicken]

looking back over this thread -- can't get over how cute these guys are! what do they look like now? I definitely want to mess around with genetics some more.

That one chick I posted died a couple years ago.

This is one from last year all grown up.

 

[FolkSonginC]

How old is the bird?

3 months

 

[FolkSonginC]

That one chick I posted died a couple years ago.

This is one from last year all grown up.View attachment 2043513

oh, that's too bad. she is very pretty!

 

[MysteryChicken]

oh, that's too bad. she is very pretty!

Thanks.