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  1. NatJ

    3 Original breeds to create all the following;

    Barred Rocks are probably better layers than Cuckoo Marans, so your sexlinks might lay better if they have Barred Rock mothers instead. I don't know whether darker eggs (Marans-mix) or more eggs (probably from Rock-mix) will be better for your purposes. Silver Laced Wyandottes could be the...
  2. NatJ

    3 Original breeds to create all the following;

    Yes, that plan would probably work pretty well. Did you want to do sexlinks in several egg colors, or just one? I was thinking you wanted sexlinks with several different egg colors, so I was trying to think of sets of 3 breeds that could make sexlinks or autosexing chicks in all directions.
  3. NatJ

    3 Original breeds to create all the following;

    White Leghorn will not work for producing sexlinks. Can you get a Brown Leghorn? Brown Leghorn rooster x Cuckoo Marans hen will produce one kind of sexlinks (daughters black, sons black with white barring.) Those chicks will lay brown eggs, but a lighter brown than what the Cuckoo Marans lay...
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