What do you get when you cross a barred rock ro with......

[ella]

Hey Texas Star, sex linking only works if the male is the red one. RIRxBR=sex linked chicks BRxRIR=all barred chicks.

 

[ticks]

wierd hjow it works thank you for clearing up for me.

 

[jephwallace]

Thanks for all the great replies. Like Texas Star I thought a BR and RIR hen would make a sex link but I thought it would be a red sex link. Thanks for all the information. I am beginning to learn a bit.

I have 36 hatched out of 42 eggs I incubated. I discarded the remaining 6 eggs after the 3rd day as some suggestions I have read in incubation instructions. The chicks all look pretty much like barred chicks.

I guess that's because they are.

Although some are beginning to sprout light colored wing feathers while others are completely black. I'll let you all know what develops.

thanks again

 

[verycherry]

I know this is a fairly old thread, but found this information on wikipedia, and would like to see if it's correct. I have a barred rock chick and was planning on breeding him with my BR hens, but also my RIR hens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_Link

 

[ella]

Wikipedia is incorrect. Mating a Barred Male to any color female will not give you sex linked chicks. Although barring is in itself somewhat sexable. Males usually have a larger blotchier headspot and lighter color overall and females are darker with a more defined spot, this is not 100% accurate though and I don't know if it would hold true for barred crosses.

A few more inaccuracies in Wikipedia's article are: A female white Rock must carry the silver gene for her to have sex linked chicks-not all white rocks do. ISA Browns are sold in the US as well as Europe. Cream Legbars are autosexing which means they do breed true.

 

[mamato3]

So BRx White rock = mutt Why? they are both plymouth rocks just different colors.

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

So BRx White rock = mutt Why? they are both plymouth rocks just different colors.

Because they are not an approved color and therefore unshowable. Each breed standard lists the colors that are acceptable for that breed; anything else is not. Many legitimate breeders do off breedings to improve some quality that is lacking in their line. But then they breed to get the line back into acceptable colors, shapes, sizes, etc to meet the breed standard without losing that new quality. They do not continue breeding those unacceptable crosses because that would downgrade their line (and the breed itself) instead of improving it. Those get culled, while only the few that actually improve the line are kept and bred.

Breeders work hard to improve their lines --and therefore the breed--without damaging the work of all the other breeders who came before them. It is because of all that hard work over the years that today when you breed a BR roo and and BR hen you ALWAYS get all BR offspring with no surprise off-color babies.

 

[Mycoolbreeze]

If you cross a RIR roo (or any non-barred roo) with a Barred Rock hen you will get black sexlinks, the males will be black with a white spot on it's head & the females will have solid black heads at hatch. I just hatched this cross except the roo was RIR/buff Leghorn interestingly 3 of 5 were black sexlinks & 2 were white (I'm referring to them as being reverse black or white sexlinks) because the male has a solid white head (starting to have ghost barring) & the female has a faint black dot on her head.

 

[Cosmos6chick]

What if you cross a barred female with a male that has recessive traits like mottling?

 

[lil fat chick]

I have a barred rock rooster and incubating eggs from a cinnamon queen, would anyone know of what the breed name for the chicks?