My little cross breeds just hatched

[Cool_Catrules456]

Very interesting indeed!

Yes, a Barred Rock hen with any of the not-barred roosters would produce black sexlink chicks (females like your black one, males like that but with white barring.)

(But it is still possible for the black sexlink hen to be the mother of that chick. If the black sexlink is the mother, the chick could be male or female.)

I ment to send this form instead of the other one oops https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...e-crested-black-polish-cross-question.747010/
It could be the same thing going on a blue laced polish who is just super dark colored

 

[NatJ]

The black sexlink is the mother of the chick. It came out of a black sexlink egg (they tend to be smaller eggs then bard rocks so the black chick is still a mystery. Now the gray chick did look like it came out of a bard rock egg. (The brown one hatched first out of a darker brown egg) while the gray one came out of a light brown egg allmost cream. Aka bard rock colored.

Oh, I misunderstood. Oops.

As an explanation for the gray chick, that would work, as long as the neighbor had a rooster who is blue or splash. (He would not have to be solid blue. Blue laced red, or blue wheaten, or anything else with the blue gene or with splash would work equally well.)

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

Oh, I misunderstood. Oops.

As an explanation for the gray chick, that would work, as long as the neighbor had a rooster who is blue or splash. (He would not have to be solid blue. Blue laced red, or blue wheaten, or anything else with the blue gene or with splash would work equally well.)

We will wait and see all though i have this feeling like it was the polish rooster who was the father but we will see in afew weeks. Ill update you if I find anything else out

 

[NatJ]

We will wait and see all though i have this feeling like it was the polish rooster who was the father

The problem still is: if the chick is blue, that blue gene must have come from somewhere!

And a black chicken, or a chicken with black lacing, cannot carry the blue gene without showing it.

(Of course, if the chick grows up to NOT have any blue, it will prove that I am not as good as I think I am at identifying chick colors. I usually prefer to ignore that possibility.)

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

The problem still is: if the chick is blue, that blue gene must have come from somewhere!

And a black chicken, or a chicken with black lacing, cannot carry the blue gene without showing it.

(Of course, if the chick grows up to NOT have any blue, it will prove that I am not as good as I think I am at identifying chick colors. I usually prefer to ignore that possibility.)

True. But the bard rock came from a flock of mixed breeds of chickens to where they could cary the blue gene through breeding it could just be hidden. Then again the polish rooster could also be a mix because they got him from the neighbor too. So they could both cary the blue gene or maybe just one of them.and theres allways a chance its just a light black chicken from the mixing of both black and white. Some kind of weird genetic flaw eather way this chick was born. Also he hatched some of his chicks none of them where gray out of 30. So a little odd ball here. Or maybe they have another blue chicken there and im just wrong. Only time will tell.

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

Heres an update:
The person i got them from had a baby gray chick hatch. He (mother is definitely the bard rock) had a white dot on his head. My little babby here does not. So its definitely a she. (Bard rocks give the barding to the males when crossed) and the neighbor had blue chickens meaning the father could have been one of those or the “silver” laced polish. I say it in tags as it could be a white polish X blue. And maybe with some silver laced parents in there. Who knows honestly. No crest going on yet though. They are one week old, nothing really new though. Thought i wanted to inform you on this.

 

[Halfpasthen]

Heres an update:
The person i got them from had a baby gray chick hatch. He (mother is definitely the bard rock) had a white dot on his head. My little babby here does not. So its definitely a she. (Bard rocks give the barding to the males when crossed) and the neighbor had blue chickens meaning the father could have been one of those or the “silver” laced polish. I say it in tags as it could be a white polish X blue. And maybe with some silver laced parents in there. Who knows honestly. No crest going on yet though. They are one week old, nothing really new though. Thought i wanted to inform you on this.

This only works if the female is barred and the male is not. Unless you know for sure the gray chicks mother was a barred rock it and father was not barred I wouldnt rely on that. When they get 5-6 weeks you can start posting pics for gender guesses!
It's hard to count on color or pattern to sex mixed breed chicks when you aren't 100% on parentage. Cute cute babies though!

 

[NatJ]

This only works if the female is barred and the male is not. Unless you know for sure the gray chicks mother was a barred rock it and father was not barred I wouldnt rely on that. When they get 5-6 weeks you can start posting pics for gender guesses!

If they know for sure the mother was barred, and the chick has no barring, then the chick must be a female. No need to know the father in that particular case. If the chick was barred, they would not be able to tell gender unless they knew whether the father was barred or not.

(That still leaves the question of whether the mother actually was the hen with barring, or whether some other hen laid the egg.)

 

[Halfpasthen]

If they know for sure the mother was barred, and the chick has no barring, then the chick must be a female. No need to know the father in that particular case. If the chick was barred, they would not be able to tell gender unless they knew whether the father was barred or not.

(That still leaves the question of whether the mother actually was the hen with barring, or whether some other hen laid the egg.)

Very true! I only meant to point out that type of sex linking only works if the female was barred, not the other way around.

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

If they know for sure the mother was barred, and the chick has no barring, then the chick must be a female. No need to know the father in that particular case. If the chick was barred, they would not be able to tell gender unless they knew whether the father was barred or not.

(That still leaves the question of whether the mother actually was the hen with barring, or whether some other hen laid the egg.)

True. But the egg looked to be a bard rock egg (I have this thing where I can tell what chicken layed what egg its correct 80% of the time) but it could have also been another cross. Yet another chick that was the same color came out with the famous white dot. Plus They said its the only fence hopper they had. And they dont have any blue chicks, the neighbors did. The mother could have been anything but I belive its the bard rock. But only time will tell I suppose.