Identification Help

[KsKingBee]

There should not be any Cameo looking chicks from these pairings. From the IBBS you will get Purple BS hens... BS pattern + BS pattern = all BS pattern. Female chicks will be Purple BS and Male chicks will be IBBS split Purple. From the Purple BS hen you will get all Purple BS chicks, Purple + Purple = all Purple and BS + BS = all BS. A sex-linked (Purple) male will produce all daughters in his color, but to get sons in his color the mom must be that color also. Good luck with that egg.

I really appreciate your patience and the way you explain things.

So in a nutshell, and considering that all the purple eggs will hatch together;
If the chick is Purple looking it is a hen, and out of the Cameos
If the chick is IB looking it is male and out of the Cameos and split Cameo or Purple.
If the chick is BS looking it is from either of the BS hens and could turn out to be either cocks or hens.
Then we wait until they start feathering to determine if they are Purple BS or BS split to Purple or just BS.

I really like and think I can remember the Purple + Purple = Purple and the BS + BS = BS. I remember the lesson of the sex linked color father producing sons only if both parents are either that color or split to that color. That is how I determined my IBBS was split to Cameo last year when he threw two Cameo BS and one Cameo son. Thanks again.

 

[DylansMom]

I really appreciate your patience and the way you explain things.

So in a nutshell, and considering that all the purple eggs will hatch together;
If the chick is Purple looking it is a hen, and out of the Cameos
If the chick is IB looking it is male and out of the Cameos and split Cameo or Purple.
If the chick is BS looking it is from either of the BS hens and could turn out to be either cocks or hens.
Then we wait until they start feathering to determine if they are Purple BS or BS split to Purple or just BS.

I really like and think I can remember the Purple + Purple = Purple and the BS + BS = BS. I remember the lesson of the sex linked color father producing sons only if both parents are either that color or split to that color. That is how I determined my IBBS was split to Cameo last year when he threw two Cameo BS and one Cameo son. Thanks again.

All Daughters will be Purple, but the Purple BS hen will give you some Purple sons, so you cannot use the purple to determine gender. Are the Cameo hens Barred wing or BS? If they are Barred wing, then any barred wing offspring that hatch would be theirs because the other hens are BS and with the BS male they will produce all BS chicks. If you get any IB or IBBS they are male and would be out of the Cameos or the IBBS hen. The BS genes are going to make things difficult for you, because you will hatch a lot of BS chicks and they will all look alike at hatch. As for the sex-linked color male lesson, he will produce a like colored son only when the hen is that color, she cannot be split to a sex-linked color, only males can carry sex-linked splits. When it comes to sex-linked colors remember the hen either IS or ISN'T......no splits.

 

[KsKingBee]

All Daughters will be Purple, but the Purple BS hen will give you some Purple sons, so you cannot use the purple to determine gender. Are the Cameo hens Barred wing or BS? If they are Barred wing, then any barred wing offspring that hatch would be theirs because the other hens are BS and with the BS male they will produce all BS chicks. If you get any IB or IBBS they are male and would be out of the Cameos or the IBBS hen. The BS genes are going to make things difficult for you, because you will hatch a lot of BS chicks and they will all look alike at hatch. As for the sex-linked color male lesson, he will produce a like colored son only when the hen is that color, she cannot be split to a sex-linked color, only males can carry sex-linked splits. When it comes to sex-linked colors remember the hen either IS or ISN'T......no splits.

Yes all the Cameos are barred wing, well they are not BS at any rate. So any barred wing Purple chicks will be hens.

IS or ISN'T... So you are saying that the only splits in a hen are to pattern and not color?

 

[DylansMom]

Yes all the Cameos are barred wing, well they are not BS at any rate. So any barred wing Purple chicks will be hens.

IS or ISN'T... So you are saying that the only splits in a hen are to pattern and not color?

Yes any barred wing Purples will be hens from your Cameos.

IS or ISN'T applies to hens and Sex-linked colors. Hens can be split to non-sex-linked colors like Bronze or Opal, but not to sex-linked like Cameo, Purple, Peach.