OK Sue, you got me breaking up! If I read your post correctly the chicks are offspring's of Wyandot and Barred Rocks. The rules of Sex-link breeding are that the sex-link feature of the pullets will follow the cock and the cockerels will follow the hen. The particular feature is not the same for all pairings. A popular one is Golden Comets where the male RIR and the female Sussex breed Red pullets and light colored cockerels. Some Sex-links involved different length of wing feathers on the chicks or white spots on the heads. So if one color of your chicks if all male you most likely have a sex-link feature. Some of these features may go way back to some chicken ancestor.
Now what are they? They are defiantly not Australorps or Black Stars. Most Sex-Links involve RIR's somewhere along the line. But, I know what they are. They are "Goldstein's"!!
Since your original breeds are good chickens there is no reason the chicks should not be the same.
Ol' George
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "sjgoldstein_2000" <sandiejg@...> wrote:
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> Ok, I've started with Wyandotte's, and barred rock. They had some babies. They are all black and I thought they were black stars. But, the other day they started getting a green feathes shinny like a rooster. Another person that knows chicks was over and said oh australorp. So I looked it up, looked at the pictures and said to myself nope they don't have white nails. But then I walked pass one the other day and guess what white nails. So, I have about 5 of these, and according to the internet, they are suppose to be great layers, since they are mostly babies only one starting to lay I won't know about that for a while. I keep hoping for a female barred rock baby or a wyandotte female fromt he two wyandottes we have. But I seem to only get barred rock males, Australorp females, whyandotte males that the feathers don't come out till later and have a baby blue feathers on flight wings. Why can't I seem to get any wyandotte females?
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> Then I have a male and female white delaware which are starting to lay at 4 months. Talk about early both seem to be bantam size at this point.
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