Ah onay thank you, Im not really gonna do anything with them other then start calling them what gender i think they are. I was going to wait for the first crow to be 100% sure anyways though thanks! Im new to the whole sexing chicks thing.
Waiting to confirm is a good plan.
Yeah, thanks for the help! From now on I will just be posting pictures of each of them until the first egg or crow.
No the cross doesn't work in reverse for sex-links, the mother must be the barred parent and the rooster must be solid. A true barred rock rooster has 2 barring genes so all of his offspring will be barred, both male and female, unless there is some other genetic pattern that masks the barring from the hen side (but the chicks will still carry a barred gene even if you can't see it).
This chick shows a lot of brown. That should not be possible with a Silver Laced Polish father. The father must be either Rhode Island Red or Golden Sexlink. I don't know which hen would be the mother, but Golden Sexlink is certainly possible.
Those parents are probably correct for this chick.
That chick looks blue to me, which should not be possible from that list of parents.
Correct, he lets his chickens free range in the day all together, the reason I belived it was the same father was the others never openly mated. He was all over the hens allmost all the time. The bard rock roo had some issues with its feet and could not walk far. So unlikely that it is the father. The brown one could be a rode island red or a rode island red golden sex link or just a pure golden sexlink, although he or she has a crest on their head you can see it in the second photo. The black one is probably a black sexlink X bard rock, as it came out of the smallest eggs (black sexlinks tend to lay smaller eggs) and its got some barding. now the gray one if you look for it has some wite patchs on its wings (very small though). the brown one has black stripes down its back im not sure if you can see them in the picture.
Now he had some blue cochin mixs but they layed white eggs not brown. But those are the only gray chickens he had. Hm he also hatched eggs from his chickens none of them where gray. Im starting to wonder if we have a fence hopper. Or maybe it was one of the cochin mixs? Maybe one of them lays brown eggs? Its the only option actually. They look like a cochin chick without feathered feet.
Ah okay, thanks for the info. Genetics are still new to me Im better with the whole hatching part of chickens.
New to me too! I only know about barring because I have and breed barred rocks. I'm completely stumped when it comes to almost everything else
