Genetics Question RE: Azure Egger Rooster

[PolarBerry]

So I have an azure egger rooster from Alchemist farms and he's the crele type coloration, so he has barring....

From their site about azure eggers "The Azure Egger Chicks are autosexing and follow the feather patterns of cream legbars as chicks: a white dot on the head means male and an unbroken chipmunk stripe down their back means female."


I hatched eggs from two types of hens he bred with: novogen (red sex link) and dominant copper (probably a marans type mix, high production darker brown layer)

The chicks hatching today look like a barred rock (black with white dot) or a buff coloration.... I'm curious if any colors are tied to sex of the chicks or not? I know I'm basically breeding mutts to mixes. I was using them as incubator-filler for my turkey eggs but I'm curious now about their genetics.

Once I get them out and into a brooder I'll share some pictures.

 

[The Moonshiner]

No their colors aren't linked to their sex. It is linked to who their mothers are.

 

[nicalandia]

So I have an azure egger rooster from Alchemist farms and he's the crele type coloration, so he has barring....

From their site about azure eggers "The Azure Egger Chicks are autosexing and follow the feather patterns of cream legbars as chicks: a white dot on the head means male and an unbroken chipmunk stripe down their back means female."


I hatched eggs from two types of hens he bred with: novogen (red sex link) and dominant copper (probably a marans type mix, high production darker brown layer)

The chicks hatching today look like a barred rock (black with white dot) or a buff coloration.... I'm curious if any colors are tied to sex of the chicks or not? I know I'm basically breeding mutts to mixes. I was using them as incubator-filler for my turkey eggs but I'm curious now about their genetics.

Once I get them out and into a brooder I'll share some pictures.

If the Azure Egger rooster is like a CCL being double barring then ALL(both sexes) of the cross will inherit the barring gene, the cross with red sexlink will produce e+/eWh B/b+(males) and e+/eWh B/- females due to the eWh interaction these chicks will lack a distinct headspot(or very faint at best), the cross with dominant copper(Birchen down type) will yield ER/e+ chicks, both sexes with headspot males will have a larger undefined head pattern, females a smaller faint dot, since males only have one copy of barring(B/b+) their chick down will not be faded or washed as homozygous barring birchen chicks

 

[PolarBerry]

Thanks, I was assuming the larger white headspots were *more* likely to be boys as is the case with most barred-chicks but all had a white dot ranging in size from small and faint to large. Thank you for the very informative answer and taking the time to explain.

I did have one solid blue chick hatch out which has me confused...

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Could you post a picture of the rooster? He may only have one copy of the barring gene.