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It seems to me that white is expressed in female chicks and red is expressed in male (when using a red male or barring using a barred male). These are the male EExRSL chicks I have

And the female sibling,

I only got 1 female out of the four that hatched. This rooster throws mostly boys so I'm not hatching from him again.

ShayBaby said:

Oh she's beautiful!! And you got that from a brown red and RSL?? I must fool around with genes to try to get a lovely pale gal like her.

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yeap I don't know how it happened

RoostersCrow said:

It seems to me that white is expressed in female chicks and red is expressed in male (when using a red male or barring using a barred male). These are the male EExRSL chicks I have

And the female sibling,

I only got 1 female out of the four that hatched. This rooster throws mostly boys so I'm not hatching from him again.

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Umm, it is your hen that determines the sex of the chick.

The eggs hatched were from several hens, both hatches. And the hens were different also. I understand that its the egg that determines sex. It is just strange that I went on to hatch eggs from the second batch of hens with different roosters and my hatches were the normal 50/50 .
I have Marans roosters and a different EE roo now, so I won't be needing him.

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Do you think external factors would influence anything? Like extreme summer heat or freezing winter weather?

RoostersCrow said:

The eggs hatched were from several hens, both hatches. And the hens were different also. I understand that its the egg that determines sex. It is just strange that I went on to hatch eggs from the second batch of hens with different roosters and my hatches were the normal 50/50 .
I have Marans roosters and a different EE roo now, so I won't be needing him.

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Do you think external factors would influence anything? Like extreme summer heat or freezing winter weather?

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I doubt that the weather would have any influence on that. I can't think of any reason why it would and I've never heard of weather having any sort of effect like this on chickens.

Either way, it doesn't have anything to do with the rooster so don't blame him, haha.

The sex of the chick depends totally on whether the hen passed on a Z(male) or a W(female) chromozome. The rooster always passes on a Z chromosome because thats all he has. Hens are ZW, roosters are ZZ.

Also, 4 chicks is no where near a large enough sample size to compare male/female hatch ratios. You would need to have hatched out at least 50, and in reality even more than that, before the numbers even started to be useful for anything.

Latest hatch from my flock.





Four fluffies. One week old.


Dottie (WLH roo/RSL hen) at 5 weeks

RoostersCrow said:

It seems to me that white is expressed in female chicks and red is expressed in male (when using a red male or barring using a barred male). These are the male EExRSL chicks I have

And the female sibling,

I only got 1 female out of the four that hatched. This rooster throws mostly boys so I'm not hatching from him again.

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As someone else said, the hen determines sex of the offspring in chickens.

But in relation to the gold/silver red/white phenomenon, you might be onto something. I think that the red genetics are often tied into the color of the hackle and saddle feathers, and that since pullets don't get those, they won't show any red coloring; that is, unless the red genetics are not JUST in the hackle and saddles, but also in the body color.

Here is an update on my Blue Ameraucana x Partridge Silkie babies.

At first, I thought that none of the partridge heritage was going to show through. But then the cockerels started developing hackle feathers of all colors.

Here are some of the young boys (I am pretty sure they are boys):










Meanwhile, the pullets are solid colored and show NO evidence of leakage at all... aka NO red or partridge coloring in the pullets at all, only in the cockerels.

Just thought I would share.

HeartMoss Farm said:

As someone else said, the hen determines sex of the offspring in chickens.

But in relation to the gold/silver red/white phenomenon, you might be onto something. I think that the red genetics are often tied into the color of the hackle and saddle feathers, and that since pullets don't get those, they won't show any red coloring; that is, unless the red genetics are not JUST in the hackle and saddles, but also in the body color.

Here is an update on my Blue Ameraucana x Partridge Silkie babies.

At first, I thought that none of the partridge heritage was going to show through. But then the cockerels started developing hackle feathers of all colors.

Here are some of the young boys (I am pretty sure they are boys):










Meanwhile, the pullets are solid colored and show NO evidence of leakage at all... aka NO red or partridge coloring in the pullets at all, only in the cockerels.

Just thought I would share.

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It is very interesting. And your birds are very beautiful, by the way. I've never had silkies or silkie mixes, but they're are on my bucket list The blue with the birchen leakage is probably my favorite, the colors are very complimentary, I think.

RoostersCrow said:

It is very interesting. And your birds are very beautiful, by the way. I've never had silkies or silkie mixes, but they're are on my bucket list The blue with the birchen leakage is probably my favorite, the colors are very complimentary, I think.

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I just like blues, but somehow that particular blue cockerel with the gold mane is really growing on me. Hoping to keep the two in the first photo for breeding back to gold-colored Easter Eggers. But don't tell the breeding police

Btw, love your flock and your coop designs!!

Here is one of my Brahma rooster(dad) Slw (mom). She is a hen.

pullet

cockerel.
Brahma (dad) mixed hen (mom).

Here is an old picture of the mom.


Hen

Rooster.
These are Brahma rooster and partridge rock hen mix.











And here are the dads.