Hatching out some splash Maran crosses

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

Any chance for auto sex chicks with any of these combinations by the way? I wasn’t sure if a splash Maran x Barred rock cross would produce sex linked chicks, being that the males would have indication of barring while the female chicks would not?
And what about the roosters foot feather gene? I noticed many (possibly all) of the roosters had inherited the foot feathers but no hens so far.

Yes, the cross with your barred rock hen will create sex links. All the chicks should be blue, with barred sons and solid daughters. However, blue is unfortunately more difficult to see the head spot and barring

I don't know how the feathered feet genes work. Hoping to hatch from my Marans hens this year.

Here are some other pictures of their offspring! We’ve only had this one rooster save for the silkie. But the silkie roo is unwelcome in the main flock. They all have looked primarily blue to me! I am fascinated by chicken color genetics but have zero clue how it all works or what to expect!

Some colors and patterns are very confusing, which makes it kind of fun when it starts making sense.

If interested - Blue (BBS, Blue Black Splash) is dilute of black.
1 copy of dilute = blue
2 copies = splash (inherit one from each parent)

*doesn't matter which parent is which color for BBS
Black x Black = all chicks black
Black x Blue = % black, % blue
Black x Splash = all chicks blue
Blue x Blue = % black, % blue, % splash
Blue x Splash = % blue, % splash
Splash x Splash = all chicks splash (color may lighten, I've heard?)

There are different types of dilute on black, but I'm just addressing BBS here

 

[NorthwoodsChick]

Any chance for auto sex chicks with any of these combinations by the way? I wasn’t sure if a splash Maran x Barred rock cross would produce sex linked chicks, being that the males would have indication of barring while the female chicks would not?
And what about the roosters foot feather gene? I noticed many (possibly all) of the roosters had inherited the foot feathers but no hens so far.

I have BBS Marans. The original parent stock of my breeders is unknown was supposed to be feather footed- I hatched eggs from that breeder, and from those hens hatched my own using a Blue copper male with feathered feet. All of the chicks at the time of hatch with clearly feathered feet were male. A few females had barely perceivable feathered legs, and all clearly clean legged chicks were female.
I now have eggs incubating from the offspring of my originals and among them only one hen has feathered legs. From the nonfeathered leggers I expect to be able to “guess” sex at hatch if they are clean legged.

 

[AfterTheFallFarm]

What would the color be if our Splash Maran roo was croosed with a lavandar Orpington hen?

 

[AfterTheFallFarm]

Friday 2/27 they went into the incubator. Candling today (3/3) and I’m seeing clear signs of development in all my green eggs. Brown eggs are harder to tell with the shell pigment.. but feel confident about 7/10 eggs! Will recandle questionable eggs again on day 10.

 

[Not-so Slick Chicken]

What would the color be if our Splash Maran roo was croosed with a lavandar Orpington hen?

Short answer- splash x lavender = visually blue split to lavender

Long answer-
Lavender is a type of dilution on black. It requires 2 copies, one from each parent, to show. If a bird only has 1 copy, they'll be visually black feathered and "split to lavender" (or "lavender split", same thing with different wording)

If they inherit a blue gene, and a lavender gene, they'll be visibly blue, split to lavender.

Lavender is formally called "self blue", so you may see that term places. Just so you know, they're the exact same color with different names.

 

[AfterTheFallFarm]

Short answer- splash x lavender = visually blue split to lavender

Long answer-
Lavender is a type of dilution on black. It requires 2 copies, one from each parent, to show. If a bird only has 1 copy, they'll be visually black feathered and "split to lavender" (or "lavender split", same thing with different wording)

If they inherit a blue gene, and a lavender gene, they'll be visibly blue, split to lavender.

Lavender is formally called "self blue", so you may see that term places. Just so you know, they're the exact same color with different names.

Thank you! What an incredible answer