Wheaten Crele Project

[Cyprus]

I'll wait if you stop insisting you're right.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Buff Orpington males are slow feathering, & females are fast feathering even though they're not mixed breeds.
Barred Rock males are fast feathering, while females are slow feathering. Bared Rocks are a sex link hybrid which can be sexed both by color, & feather growth rate.
I'm using those traits to my advantage.
I do make mistakes sometimes, but I'm correct most of the time.

I'll try a different approach so to not hurt your feelings.
That part in red is real intriguing to me.
Where are you getting that "hybrid" information. I've been around barred rocks on and off for 40 years. Never knew they weren't a breed but a hybrid.
Also know they're easily sexed by head spots and shanks so wonder why anyone would feel a need to worry about making them feather sex able. Or was that just a bonus that came with them being hybrids?

The other parts in blue does confuse me. I'll admit I don't do a lot of research so I'm very curious how a breed breeds true for all the offspring to be linked to either fast or slow feathering by their sex.
I would think to produce a feather sex able offspring that one would need three separate flocks all of the same breed except one flock would be fast feathering and produce fast feathering chicks and you would use those cockerels to breed to the slow feathering flocks slow feathering pullets.
So two parental flocks and a third flock to produce the feather sex able offspring.
I'm racking my brain to figure out how it can be done like you suggest.
Mind explaining it to me or sharing links?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Buff Orpington males are slow feathering, & females are fast feathering even though they're not mixed breeds.
Barred Rock males are fast feathering, while females are slow feathering. Bared Rocks are a sex link hybrid which can be sexed both by color, & feather growth rate.
I'm using those traits to my advantage.
I do make mistakes sometimes, but I'm correct most of the time.

Barred rocks aren't a hybrid. Those are black sex links.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Barred rocks aren't a hybrid. Those are black sex links.

They're hybrids, that's what makes Barred Rocks sex-linked.
Do you know of any purebred chickens that are sex-linked? I bet there's only a few.
Like I asked earlier in my thread, I would like to get off this subject for right now, please?

 

[Cyprus]

They're hybrids, that's what makes Barred Rocks sex-linked.
Do you know of any purebred chickens that are sex-linked? I bet there's only a few.
Like I asked earlier in my thread, I would like to get off this subject for right now, please?

It's auto sexing, learn the difference

 

[Cyprus]

You can't blame people for being passionate

 

[The Moonshiner]

Why get off a subject when I for one am interested in hearing more of you're knowledge on the subject?
You make statements that if explained in more depth may educate us but then you say na lets change the subject?
You have all this knowledge but don't want to share it with us?
I'm saddened again.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

They're hybrids, that's what makes Barred Rocks sex-linked.
Do you know of any purebred chickens that are sex-linked? I bet there's only a few.
Like I asked earlier in my thread, I would like to get off this subject for right now, please?

They're autosexing. Due to the barring gene. Hens can only have one copy, so are darker. Roosters have two copies, so are lighter. Most breeds that have the barring gene are autosexing. Crele OEGBs, bielefelders, legbars, cuckoo marans, etc.
Let's say you're right; what is the cross? And why would someone make a barred rock hybrid when they could just use the breed's already existing autosexing traits?

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Agree with @RoostersAreAwesome I was about to say all that too. Barred Rocks are a breed, not a hybrid. For all the reasons that Roosters said above.


purebred
adjective
pure·bred | \ ˈpyu̇r-ˈbred , -ˌbred\

: bred from members of a recognized breed, strain, or kind without admixture of other blood over many generations

hybrid

adjective
Definition of hybrid

1 : relating to or produced from parents of different species, varieties, or breeds a hybrid rosehybrid cattle


From Merriam-Webster Online
https://www.merriam-webster.com/

 

[ColtHandorf]

Agreed, I think the term sex-linked and auto-sexing has been used interchangeably by the OP to the confusion of others. The terms are not synonymous. There are several auto-sexing breeds that are sex-able at hatch. These breeds are purebred. The sex-linked chickens are indeed hybrids and are bred by crossing two different pure bred chickens (Rhode Island Red x Barred Rock for example) to produce chicks that are sex-able at hatch. The sex-linked trait is only passed on in the initial, parent cross. If you bred Black Sex-links to one another, the resulting offspring would not remain Sex-linked, and would matter-of-factly only be hybrids.

I also think it is important to note that no one is being"mean", rather people are attempting to educate and stop the spread of misinformation so that individuals who are less informed do not come across false information and regurgitate it as fact.