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Originally Posted by GhostRider65 
Hey all I'm slowly reading through this thread again, but have a question, has anyone crossed a BO hen with a Delaware roo? if so did it make a sexlink or can I at least get an idea of what the chicks would like? I have 4 roos, and 16 hens and want to know what I need to add or do to get a few more sl chicks........??? My breeds listed below.
I have a wonderful Del, roo..hansom who is so sweet and not a bad specimen of the breed, and I have ordered some BO pullet chicks......... he is my main rooster in my Straight comb pen, so these girls will end up with him, so I want to figure out what the babies will look like............? anyone know the answer to that 1? Ty KIM
BTW great info on this thread..now all I have to do is make my brain soak up all this info and maybe by the time I'm 80 I'll actually get it........... hehe
My Roos
White Wyandotte
EE, splash I think he has a gray beard, with lots of red splashes over white, his tail is black and white.
SS
Delaware
Hens
WW
EE
SLW
WR
BR
BO
Delaware
SS
also have 3 BSL's from TSC
So if any of these would make a good cross, I would be very happy. to hear it............. or will I have to get another rooster........grrrrrrrrrrr
also wondering what kind of chick would come from a Del roo and BR hen? she seems to be hansoms favorite girl.......... poor peaches.....she is getting alot of unwanted attention these days.........LOL
TY much if anyone is still around from this thread................ Kim
Hey all I'm slowly reading through this thread again, but have a question, has anyone crossed a BO hen with a Delaware roo? if so did it make a sexlink or can I at least get an idea of what the chicks would like? I have 4 roos, and 16 hens and want to know what I need to add or do to get a few more sl chicks........??? My breeds listed below.
I have a wonderful Del, roo..hansom who is so sweet and not a bad specimen of the breed, and I have ordered some BO pullet chicks......... he is my main rooster in my Straight comb pen, so these girls will end up with him, so I want to figure out what the babies will look like............? anyone know the answer to that 1? Ty KIM
BTW great info on this thread..now all I have to do is make my brain soak up all this info and maybe by the time I'm 80 I'll actually get it........... hehe
My Roos
White Wyandotte
EE, splash I think he has a gray beard, with lots of red splashes over white, his tail is black and white.
SS
Delaware
Hens
WW
EE
SLW
WR
BR
BO
Delaware
SS
also have 3 BSL's from TSC
So if any of these would make a good cross, I would be very happy. to hear it............. or will I have to get another rooster........grrrrrrrrrrr
also wondering what kind of chick would come from a Del roo and BR hen? she seems to be hansoms favorite girl.......... poor peaches.....she is getting alot of unwanted attention these days.........LOL
TY much if anyone is still around from this thread................ Kim
The only rooster that I’d trust to work for Sex Links is the Speckled Sussex. The others don’t have the correct genes, though the Splash EE is interesting. I’ll get to that at the bottom of this post. If you use your Speckled Sussex rooster:
You will get Black Sex Links with the Barred Rock.
I’m guessing you mean White Wyandotte with WW and White Rock with WR. I copied below what Tim wrote in the first post in this thread about them.
* White Wyandottes and *White Plymouth Rocks are not a good choice. They sometimes have the correct genotype to produce sex linked chicks and at other times, they do not have the correct genotype to produce sex linked chicks. If a White Wyandotte carries the correct genotype, then the male down will vary in color: whitish, yellowish or even smoky white. The females produced from a Rhode Island Red and White Wyandotte cross can also vary in color from a striped gold down into a light buff color.
Your Silver Laced Wyandotte will give you red sex links.
Your Delaware will give you red sex links. You won’t be able to see the spot, but the male offspring will be barred and the female will not.
Now, for the Splash rooster. Since it is an EE, I would not trust the genes in it. They are a mix and you never know what is in there. It is a bit of a gamble because you don’t know what else is in there, but the Splash rooster might work too. If you cross the Splash rooster with either the Delaware or Barred Rock hens, you should get Blue chicks. The males will be barred and the females will not, so they are Black Sex Links. The gamble is I don’t know if you will be able to see the spot or not. I’ve never hatched blue chicks so I am not sure how clear that spot would be anyway, and the other genes in that Splash EE rooster may interfere with you being sure of the spot.
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought....Abraham Lincoln (Freedom carries responsibility)
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.....Judge Learned Hand (The more sure your are that your way is the only right way, the more likely you are wrong.)
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.....Judge Learned Hand (The more sure your are that your way is the only right way, the more likely you are wrong.)
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought....Abraham Lincoln (Freedom carries responsibility)
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.....Judge Learned Hand (The more sure your are that your way is the only right way, the more likely you are wrong.)
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.....Judge Learned Hand (The more sure your are that your way is the only right way, the more likely you are wrong.)
I made black sex links without even knowing!
