If you mix these?

[iamlindalu2you]

If you mix a Rhode Island Red Rooster with Barred Rock hens, will you always get sex linked offspring? Or will some be barred rock. Rhode Island Red , and some Black star or Black sex linked chicks?

 

[Michael OShay]

A RIR rooster crossed with a Barred Rock hen will always given you Black Sex Link chicks. The male chicks will be black with a white spot on top of their heads, and the female chicks will be solid black (no white spot on top of their heads). As they feather out, male BSLs will be barred, female BSLs will be black with some reddish or copper colored feathering around the neck area.

 

[donrae]

Rule in breeding animals.....if the parents are two different breeds, none of the offspring will be pure bred. They'll all be a mix of the two parent breeds. Some parents may have more dominant genes than the other, but they'll always be mixed.

Other than that.....yeah, what Michael said

 

[iamlindalu2you]

Thanks. I had a rooster born that was exactly like his father Rhode Island Red, Not Barred.

 

[Blackberry18]

A RIR rooster crossed with a Barred Rock hen will always given you Black Sex Link chicks. The male chicks will be black with a white spot on top of their heads, and the female chicks will be solid black (no white spot on top of their heads). As they feather out, male BSLs will be barred, female BSLs will be black with some reddish or copper colored feathering around the neck area.

Agreed. It's a common cross for Black Sex-Links.

 

[donrae]

Thanks. I had a rooster born that was exactly like his father Rhode Island Red, Not Barred.

But there's so much more to a breed than the color.......