Over the past year I've been trying to hatch my own backyard version of blue egg layers, utilizing my crested cream legbar rooster, buff orpington and ayam ceyami hens. This last batch of chicks hatched out with unexpected down colors, and I'm wondering if they might be sex-linked.
First gen crosses of CCL rooster and BO or AC hens were were definitely not sex-linked, they all had white fluffy spots on their heads. All grew up with either buff/black barring or black/white barring, all female.
This time, I hatched eggs from the first gen offspring crossed back to the CCL rooster. Some of these chicks have white spots with light colored down, while others have no white spots and darker down (solid black), and one is chipmunk/brown patterned (similar to female CCL chick).
I'll attach pics below... Is it possible these second-gen chicks are sex linked ? I know barring is passed down from only one gender, which I can't recall right now lol, but I had the impression that sex-linked chicks are not possible with a barred roo and solid hen... But did I flip the odds by breeding the barred hen offspring back to the barred roo?
Thanks ahead
First gen crosses of CCL rooster and BO or AC hens were were definitely not sex-linked, they all had white fluffy spots on their heads. All grew up with either buff/black barring or black/white barring, all female.
This time, I hatched eggs from the first gen offspring crossed back to the CCL rooster. Some of these chicks have white spots with light colored down, while others have no white spots and darker down (solid black), and one is chipmunk/brown patterned (similar to female CCL chick).
I'll attach pics below... Is it possible these second-gen chicks are sex linked ? I know barring is passed down from only one gender, which I can't recall right now lol, but I had the impression that sex-linked chicks are not possible with a barred roo and solid hen... But did I flip the odds by breeding the barred hen offspring back to the barred roo?
Thanks ahead