help with breeding easter egger sex links!! [pic]

[smarsh]

someone told you wrong. You might actually get some sexed color pattern since barred is sexlinked in some since. but a white roo to a barred hen is not going to work like the black sex link which is a read roo to a barred hen. Your roos may or may not have the silver gene, but he doesn't have the color needed to off set the silver gene the hen does have. Your pullet would likely not be barred once feathered, the roos definitely would be barred. I doubt they would be identibiable at hatch.

 

[ACraZyLittLeChiCkenGirl]

Also anyone know where I can get a barred rock hen!

 

[ACraZyLittLeChiCkenGirl]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=339763

does this resemble anything ur talking about Illia?

 

[Cowgirl71]

From what other people are saying, when crossed with Barred Rock hens you'd get:

half black Sexlink chicks (if he's golden, then the chicks would be sexed differently than if he's red. Red gene= black chicks, males with a white spot on the head. Golden= dark colored chicks, males with silver cheeks, females with gold cheeks)

half "white" sexlink chicks (males "ghost barred" and females white with gold leakage. The white chicks won't be sexable until they're feathered out)

Now this assumes that he's got the color genes we think he does. Personally, I would recommend getting a purebred rooster, such as a Rhode Island Red, New Hampshire, Buff Orpington, etc. A Black Australorp would also make Black Sexlinks with Barred Rock hens, and there's lots of other choices too. At least then you would know what you're gonna get. With an Easter Egger, it's all guessing...

 

[ACraZyLittLeChiCkenGirl]

this sucks cause they are my favorite chickens!!! ugh ok well i guess its just a guessing game from here on out!! thanks for the help guys if you know anything else please let me know. I have 1 RIR 4 Black stars 3 Red stars 2 EE hens and 4 single comb brown leghorns. if i could do anything to make sexing easier at hatch then please let me know!!

 

[ACraZyLittLeChiCkenGirl]

ok hold on... in my lasst hatch i dont know what was what but he threw 5 black chicks and 2 white ones. one white one was a roo and one a hen and one black one was a roo. the others didnt ever hatch but i opened them all and thery were all black with a little white on them... does that help anything?

 

[phasianidae]

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That means that he has one copy of dominant white for sure.

 

[phasianidae]

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[ACraZyLittLeChiCkenGirl]

so because he is dominant white does that mean that i can create sexlinks or not?

 

[phasianidae]

About half of the chicks will be black. Of the black chicks, the males will have a white spot on their head and the females wont. The other half of the chicks will be white with black spots. Of the white chicks, the males will probably have a faint whiter spot on their head and the females wont.