Please help me Make Easter Eggers for my flock

[JessesChickens101]

This is always a handy chart.

My mission for this year hopefully is to breed dull spearmint layers!

 

[BokBokBeginner]

My mission for this year hopefully is to breed dull spearmint layers!

Yesss that sounds exciting

 

[BokBokBeginner]

All those hens with your Araucana rooster will make "Easter eggers" that lay various shades of green eggs, providing your rooster has two copies of the blue gene (he should). "olive eggers" are a result of crossing a blue layer with a dark brown layer such as Marans or dark strain Welsummer.
If you bred one of the sons or a non blue layer to the resulting pullets their offspring will lay a variety of greens, creams, tans and maybe even pinks.
If your Araucana/barred rock hen is barred their chicks will also be sex-links

Just wondering about those sex-link chicks do the females stay black as they feather out or do they end up barred too or what should I expect from them colour wise please?

 

[ChloeSilkie08]

My mission for this year hopefully is to breed dull spearmint layers!

I thought about it but with my current setup it would be too complicated.

 

[BokBokBeginner]

AusHen please could you explain to me how the

All those hens with your Araucana rooster will make "Easter eggers" that lay various shades of green eggs, providing your rooster has two copies of the blue gene (he should). "olive eggers" are a result of crossing a blue layer with a dark brown layer such as Marans or dark strain Welsummer.
If you bred one of the sons or a non blue layer to the resulting pullets their offspring will lay a variety of greens, creams, tans and maybe even pinks.
If your Araucana/barred rock hen is barred their chicks will also be sex-links

AusHen please could you explain to me how the sexlink works please how will I tell these males from females?