Barred Rock, cream legbar hens crossed with Wheaten Ameraucana?

[Marme]

Yes...of the barred rock vs. marans cross, any barring will be male. Both have single combs, so all chicks will have single.

As to the Wheatens....ah yes, you have dominant wheaten....I too seemed to find head stripe width sort of indicated difference between male and female, but there will be a barring spot...you just won't see it well at all in the wheaten yellow chick. Those will be a lot trickier. It seemed to me the more true chipmunk chips tended to be female while the splotchier marked chicks male...but there were a number that just didn't fit and I had to wait and see. (I was working with Rhodebars, with a recessive wheaten throw back).

Good luck with your current hatch.
LofMc

This is really helpful. Thank you! I hope I get a good combo of male and female so I can see the differences in person!

 

[Marme]

As to your olive egger question....you could have some interesting speckling as the hen does on her eggs, but you likely won't get olive. Brown wash (and speckles) over blue shell will produce shades of green. You have to have a fairly dark wash to get the olive. Then I find only about 1/3 become a truly nice shade which I then breed back to the dark roo to set that line, which again improves the colors but is no guarantee. Brown wash genetics are tricky and not reliable.

You will get green of some sort and likely very lovely green. This is my egg charts. I'm working with Barnevelder (proven rooster for deep terra cotta genes) and Cream Legbar:

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That is so neat. I kind of figures the resulting pullets would lay green but not the darker olive colors because of that. I’d love a fun variety regardless!

 

[little_chick_homestead]

Hi there.

Those should be fun crosses... and yes I do believe they WILL be sex linked at HATCH... not birth.

The white spot should be on the head of either color the yellow or black chicks... white spot equals male. No spot is female... in theory at least is my understanding. It can be harder to see on some colors.

If the white spot isn't identifiable at hatch... once feathers are coming in, females should be solid colored and males should have barring.

Also, please note I have never seen a barred Rock egg look like that and according to comb (points) and white legs... suspect she MIGHT be a cuckoo Marans with clean legs???

Hope your hatch goes well!

I do indeed think those are Barred Rocks before I got my Cuckoo Maran, my one BarredRock laid kinda eggs like those ones. As well as all Barred Rocks I've had, was bluer than my Cuckoo Maran hen, she has dark almost black feathers, and my PBR has more blue.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

That will be an interesting cross! I’m wondering what genetics will factor in! The eggs will have some cool colors.
As for your Barred Rock hen, I do believe she is in fact a Cuckoo Marans. Her legs would be more yellow if she was a BR, and would have some gray shading.
I do have a clarifying question: what color eggs does she lay?
If she lays dark brown eggs, then yes, any pullets would be olive eggers.

 

[Marme]

That will be an interesting cross! I’m wondering what genetics will factor in! The eggs will have some cool colors.
As for your Barred Rock hen, I do believe she is in fact a Cuckoo Marans. Her legs would be more yellow if she was a BR, and would have some gray shading.
I do have a clarifying question: what color eggs does she lay?
If she lays dark brown eggs, then yes, any pullets would be olive eggers.

She lays medium colored brown eggs so I’m guessing offspring would lay green but not dark enough to be olive? Every once in a while she will lay a speckled egg but most of the time they are solid brown.

 

[Marme]

I set the eggs this last Wednesday, so I’ll be candling either this coming Wednesday or Thursday to see if any are developing! Fingers crossed!

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I do indeed think those are Barred Rocks before I got my Cuckoo Maran, my one BarredRock laid kinda eggs like those ones. As well as all Barred Rocks I've had, was bluer than my Cuckoo Maran hen, she has dark almost black feathers, and my PBR has more blue.

I posted a more accurate way to tell which is skin color. Noted by looking at the sole of the feet.

I have never owned a cuckoo Marans, but there is always variation in the hatchery Rocks I have owned... some having more green or purple/blue sheen on their black barring than others and variations in their egg shade also. Most hatchery cuckoo Marans that I have seen do not have impressive egg color. So I was just curios.. because I'm ALL about the little details... (my personal character flaw/challenge). I'm ALWAYS looking for the truth as a deep ingrained self preservation skill due to so many deceptions in my early development.

Although I do expect Rock legs to be more yellow... yellow on shanks can vary according to feed. Noted by the OP... my Rocks have always been more chatty than Marans as well... this far anyways. Dark wash on the front of Barred Rock legs USED to be a sex linked (or autosexing I can't remember which) trait, with dark shank being female. This may still be the case in show lines but not so much in hatchery birds.

Yes, the lighter brown eggs crossed with blue often equal more of a khaki or beige color than what many call olive.. Probably still call it an Easter Egger. It's still great to see the varieties!