Will Pure Black Ameraucana Roo over Barred Rock, Domonique and Cuckoo Maran Hens make Olive Egg layi

[FrenchToast]

I guess my heading speaks for itself.
Will Pure Black Ameraucana Roo over Barred Rock, Domonique and Cuckoo Maran Hens make Olive Egg laying Sex Links?

I also have Black Australorp roo to make sex links but I thought about using the Ameraucan to give me olive eggs.

How does this gene work ? The green or olive part ?

 

[Goose and Fig]

They'll all be sex links (dom, marans, rock) but only the marans will really give you olive egger offspring. The rest will be easter eggers.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Forgot to add- you need the blue egg gene from the ameraucana and the "paint" or chocolate egg gene from the marans. Don't discount any single-combed offsping from this mating, as they can still be valueable dark layers. You really want the pea-combed ones for OEs though.

 

[FinsUp]

Does anyone have a pic of what they might look like all grown up? I have a Black roo and Barred Rock - curious.

 

[cottagegarden]

Males will have barring for Marans, females solid. The Maran crosses wil be olive, Dominique will be light green.

 

[heebygeebies]

Does it work the opposite way too? Would a barred rock roo over black ameraucana hens make sex links as well?

 

[centrarchid]

I have one, not of Urch stock, that will bs allowed into breeding pen this year. She is only one with spurs to make cut for breeding pen so far.

 

[enola]

Using a barred rooster over black hens will not give you sex linked chicks. They will all be barred.

 

[centrarchid]

Does it work the opposite way too? Would a barred rock roo over black ameraucana hens make sex links as well?

 

Post above randomly placed here.

 

[hotlipshens]

you wont get any single combs if the rooster is a purebred ameraucana - they will all have modified pea combs and have a blue egg shell gene...not the same if you use an EE often called "americana"