What breeds can you sex as chicks?

[Fruit Juice]

What breeds, besides sex-links, can you sex as chicks by their down color or leg color?

 

[speckledhen]

Barred Rocks, Dominiques, Cuckoo Marans are three of them. They are usually easy to sex with some degree of accuracy by the headspot, overall color of the down and to a lesser degree, leg color. Take all three things together and you'll be about 90% accurate. I know there are more breeds like that, like Salmon Faverolles, but they take a couple weeks for them to feather out.

http://www.dominiquechicken.com/Sexing_Dominique_chicks.html This applies to all the barred breeds mentioned above.

 

[vortec]

Correct me if wrong, California Greys, and Red Sex links, Black Sex links.

vortec

 

[speckledhen]

I think the OP wanted breeds besides the obvious sexlinks, though.

 

[kalimist99]

im guessing you can sex rhode island reds somehow cuz i bought 8 day old chicks from dels and they said there all suppousvly pullets? they came from privett hachery, how accurate are they at sexing rirs? im kinda hopin for 1 rooster.

 

[Ugly Cowboy]

Well, if ya know what to look for, you can sex all of 'em. Someone taught me how to vent 'em a long time ago (looks kinda mean, but we really aint as rough with 'em as it looks) and thats pretty dang accurate.

 

[Krys109uk]

The autosexing breeds.....such as:
Legbar, Rhodebar, Cambar, Welbar, Wybar, Brussbar, Brockbar, Dorbar.

Found more online:
Bielefelder, Ancobar, Hambar, Niederheiner, Cobar, Buffbar, Whealbar, Norske Jaerhorn, Oklabar, Barnebar, Amrock.

 

[TimG]

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I'm guessing all these -bar birds are crosses involving Barred Plymouth Rocks.

 

[speckledhen]

Yes, I think so, which makes them sexlinks. I dont know of anyone in this country who has a flock of any of those. Using a BR or Cuckoo Marans hen, you can make all sorts of sexlinks, though. I've had several.

 

[Krys109uk]

I'm guessing all these -bar birds are crosses involving Barred Plymouth Rocks.

They're breeds developed by Prof.Punnett & others at Cambridge University using the sex linked barring gene from barred rocks on non black birds. They were developed, I believe with the commercial market in mind before the days of the modern commercial hybrids.
They are accepted breeds & they breed true.

Unfortunately some of these breeds are now very rare or have died out.