If I cross a black sex link with a white roo will i get a blue bird ?

[tadkerson]

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If the white rooster is a Leghorn the male is dominant white. Other birds are usually recessive white. Sometimes the other chickens also carry dominant white with recessive white.

White rocks should be recessive white but they can carry dominant white and sex linked barring.

With dominant white you can get a bird that looks like a splash bird but the splash in the bird is black and not blue/dark blue. The bird has to carry only one copy of the dominant white gene.

If you were using a leghorn they do sometimes produce blue birds. If the leghorn carries blue then you can produce a splash looking bird.

If you cross the white rock with the black sex link you will most likely get black chicks. If you get about 1/2 white chicks, then the white rock is carrying dominant white. If you get blue chicks in the cross, then the white rock is carrying the blue gene; most likely this will not happen.

White birds can carry all kinds of genes hidden under the white.

If I repeated information others have given, please excuse me.

Tim

 

[Chris09]

I do know that the White Rock and the Black Rock are "sport color" out of a Bard Rock..
Chris

 

[WalkingWolf]

Op just try it and see what you get, I'm sure they will taste good whatever the outcome. And both breeds are known to be prolific layers.

By accident and not intentional breeding my black round head bred with two of my redlaced Cornish Bantams the result was 1 white and 3 blue laced with gray leg chicks(very very pretty). I have him isolated to his hens now, but I intend to breed them back to either a white or redlaced cornish.

He also bred with the neighbors barred rocks while runnng free and produced some game BSL. Just like a reg sex link the chicks were sex linked the same. White dot male, black female.