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Parents of my black sexlinks. The rooster is definitely not barred or white. The hens are clearly barred
Junebuggena doesn't need to sex her chicks by leg color. They are sexable by down color. Cockerel chicks will have a white head spot, pullet chicks will not.In your case:
Female will pass her "sex" chromosome to All males. Your roo will pass one copy of his chromosome (he has two). Male offspring will be a mix: dominant barred/whatever. Dominant will win out and makes will show mostly the characteristic "female" sexlinked trait, since they only have one "dominant" chromosome. However, unlike the situation with females (one chromosome = 100%), males have two chromosomes (one dominant or 50%), so genes from the other chromosome bleed through and show up in the color trait. BUT male chicks should also carry the dominant "yellow" shank gene, which females WILL NOT.
So, you can look at leg color. Females should have much darker feet, in your cross, they have no "yellow" gene on their sex chromosome.
As ive explained before:
This cross should produce offspring easily identifiable by shank/foot color, males being lighter(more yellow) than females.
In addition, female offspring will have only the sex chromosome from the male and will show whatever coloring he brings to the table. THAT is why you see the color variation in female chicks...but again, the females
If this is too much information, and you want a single sentence answer, you are out of luck.
You seem to be really confused about sexlinking genes. Yellow skin/shank color is not dominant. All chicks from my hatch have yellow skin, because both parents have yellow skin. Both the males and females had a dark 'wash' on the legs at hatching, so they could not be sexed by leg color, at least not at first.In your case:
Female will pass her "sex" chromosome to All males. Your roo will pass one copy of his chromosome (he has two). Male offspring will be a mix: dominant barred/whatever. Dominant will win out and makes will show mostly the characteristic "female" sexlinked trait, since they only have one "dominant" chromosome. However, unlike the situation with females (one chromosome = 100%), males have two chromosomes (one dominant or 50%), so genes from the other chromosome bleed through and show up in the color trait. BUT male chicks should also carry the dominant "yellow" shank gene, which females WILL NOT.
So, you can look at leg color. Females should have much darker feet, in your cross, they have no "yellow" gene on their sex chromosome.
As ive explained before:
This cross should produce offspring easily identifiable by shank/foot color, males being lighter(more yellow) than females.
In addition, female offspring will have only the sex chromosome from the male and will show whatever coloring he brings to the table. THAT is why you see the color variation in female chicks...but again, the females
If this is too much information, and you want a single sentence answer, you are out of luck.
because both parents have yellow skin.
Ohh, it's like Where's Waldo
I think I see three, but I'm guessing there's a lot more?