Hello!! I have 49 eggs in the bator for my cousin that were put in the bator on 12/28. I candled and all are growing well with 2 questionable porous eggs. there are 3 1st generation olive eggers in there as well. My question is there was 1 barred rock roo and 2 RIR roos in with these hens. So I know the hatching will be half and half. I have tried to look at 1 day olds of both breeds and from what I am gathering... the sex-link pullets will be all black with no white on their heads...legs mostly black in color.
the roos will have a spot on their heads with same coloring in the legs. now the barred rocks look almost like the sexlink roos(at least in the pics!) will the barred rock be more of a gray/ black than a true black in color with the white on the head and chest & belly with more of a yellow coloring in the legs? My cousin said that I can keep a few pullets for hatching them out. he really doesn't like sexlinks and I thought I would take them....Does anyone here have experience sorting these out at hatch? really would hate to wait until they start to feather out... Thanks in advance!!!
the roos will have a spot on their heads with same coloring in the legs. now the barred rocks look almost like the sexlink roos(at least in the pics!) will the barred rock be more of a gray/ black than a true black in color with the white on the head and chest & belly with more of a yellow coloring in the legs? My cousin said that I can keep a few pullets for hatching them out. he really doesn't like sexlinks and I thought I would take them....Does anyone here have experience sorting these out at hatch? really would hate to wait until they start to feather out... Thanks in advance!!!
