question on crossbreeds

[doublebow]

This is my first post Does any one know what color chick a BO rooster and a barred (does not fit any breed perfectly) hen make? Also do RIR roosters and any barred hen make sex links?

 

[Goose and Fig]

RIR and Barred Rocks make black sex-links. You'd get a similar result, I think, with an Orp roo. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[SimplyForties]

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[Year of the Rooster]

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You are correct, though I'm not sure what colors each sex will be.

 

[danielbrown]

Barred based sexlink chicks are sexed by head spot.
The male chicks will have a head spot and the hens won't.

 

[doublebow]

Thanks for the responses! I am still confused then about which cross a couple of my newly hatched chicks are. I have three of the black sex links. But I also have a gray chick with a lot of red around her face and neck. And I have a chick that is buff but has barring on its wings. They are only 2 weeks old. I have a BO pooster and a RIR rooster and BO hens and mixed breed barred hens. The eggs that hatched were a mix of all the eggs so I am trying to sort out who's who.

 

[k2chickens]

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hmmm that's funny, never seen a barred rock chick without a headspot...boy..or girl. I think what your getting at is the females will have a more "rounded" or symetrical dot...and the males will have a splash effect dot

 

[The Wolf Queen]

http://www.breedbook.org/?action=geneticscalculator&tab=CHICKEN

 

[danielbrown]

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hmmm that's funny, never seen a barred rock chick without a headspot...boy..or girl. I think what your getting at is the females will have a more "rounded" or symetrical dot...and the males will have a splash effect dot

Barred rocks are different from barred based sexlinks.
All barred rock chicks have a head spot.

Barred based sexlinks the males are barred and have the head spot.
The females are not barred therefore do not have the head spot.

 

[doublebow]

OK thanks for that link. That is cool. So the buff chicks with barred wing feathers are males. Right?