Okay… so i need help. I bought 2 black sexlink chicks from Rural King about 7 weeks ago. The both were black, but one was solid black with black legs/feet (Jolene), the other had a large white patch on its chest and yellow legs/feet (Beth). Well… now that they have grown up a bit they...
Previously I have crossed crested cream legbar with black copper marans to get sexlinked olive eggers. Unfortunately I lost my crested cream leg bar roo this year.
I'm wondering if an opal leg bar is considered a barring gene and would crossing an opal leg bar with a black copper marans...
I’ve crossed my roo with a few different hens to get very sweet little sex-links. It’s been pretty consistent and reliable. I finally hatched some chicks crossed with my fibro roo over white leghorn hens. The result consfused me. The chicks are very sweet, white with black spots, but the...
These chickens don't belong to me so I've never bothered learning the genetics but we need to start sexing the chicks and I just get the feeling at least some of these are sex-linked.
Rooster is the one talked about in this thread, so his genetics are here...
Hi everyone and thank you to all the posters and experienced chicken keepers for the amazing threads i have been reading over the last 8 months. I moved rural and finally got to own my own chickens. This is going to be a bit of a story but i promise it gets to a question, and i think it would be...
I want to breed and hatch a black star and possibly sell black stars as well. I don't have a rhode island red rooster. I only have a Black Sexlink (ameraucana dad and barred rock mom) and rhode island red hens. So, will a black sexlink rooster and rhode island red hen produce a black star...
Hi all, I recently hatched out 12 chicks. Possible roosters are New Hampshire red, or Buff Orpington.
Possible hens
RIR
Barred Rock
Buff Orpington
Silver laced Wyandotte
Speckled Sussex.
This is one of the hatches I kept, I think it is a black sexlink. Im not skilled in crosses or genetics...
I just hatched out 7 chocolate showgirls from my chocolate pen. Fun part is I do not have any showgirls in that pen. These chicks are my first batch from the pen and I bought the Chocolate parents as eggs last year from a breeder who does sex-linked and who also has showgirls in her line. My two...
Questions 1 & 2
We are keeping a Buff Orpington Rooster. Can I breed him with Delaware, Cream Legbar, or Columbian Wyandotte to get Sex-links? If so, how will I tell them apart?
Question 3
If we get a second rooster for black sex-links, I would prefer a Welsummer, Blue Australorp, Blue...
I started hatching from a cross that should be sex-linked but so far none of the chicks have hatched with the telltale white spot. I might’ve assumed all pullets, but now at 2 weeks it appears a blonde chick is developing barring.
Cross is Wheaten Marans Rooster x Cream Legbar Hen. I was...
Okay. I've searched threads and just can't find definitive answers.
I have 7 hens and 1 Silver Laced Wyandotte rooster. I want to incubate eggs that will produce sexlink chicks. What hen will do this?
My hens: 2 Silver laced Wyandottes, 2 white leghorns, 1 Plymouth barred rock, 1 Australorp...
Not sure why the additional work was not done, they'd gone this far... to just make an auto sexing breed like the cream legals, etc.
Someone posted this about a decade ago, "
California gray is a breed that is based on the Barred Plymouth Rock X Leghorn
It is then crossed back on Leghorn to...
I'm doing a breeding experiment and wanting to make sure I'm understanding things correctly.
Sexlink chicks only happen with certain crosses? So it only works for the first crossbreed offspring?
Is there true breeding sexlinks? Is that color/pattern specific or genetic specific?
I have brown...
I have a couple specific questions about these genes, and need someone to explain them to me in layman's terms. Genetics is a fun hobby for me, but I have trouble reading and understanding some of the concepts.
First question is about Vee combed chickens, which I believe is related to the D^V...
If you have a Black copper Marans cock over a Bielefelder hen will the offspring be sexlinked?
and what about reverse pairing? Bielefelder cock over a Black copper hen?
Hello everyone!
Fate has dropped into my lap a couple of odd combinations!! We were told that these two combinations could potentially provide sexlinked offspring, but I have struggled to find (and fully understand) information online to back this up. I would like to know more before diving...
Chicken Genetics and I are like butter and bread. I am new to Pheasant and actually don't have any, but may in the future for genetics purposes(behavioral, reproduction and production), I saw a youtube video of someone crossing a what it looks like a Ringneck or perhaps Common Pheasant rooster...
I hope that's the right term.
So if I have a solid coloured ROO over a barred HEN, male chicks will be barred, and females solid.
What if I have a barred ROO over a solid female HEN? Will males be solid and females barred?
Does it work both ways?
What if I have, say a BCM (solid) over an EE...
Will all types of marans rooster crossed with legbar hen produce sexlink chicks? I’ve got splash and birchen marans roosters over legbar. 4 hatched so far, no white dot. I’m not that lucky, right?
Charcoal/Grau-fee Discussion Thread
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My recent obsession, and what I'm dedicating the most space to moving forward.
It all started with this dude, Grandpappy Charcoal (who's also in my avatar pic).
When I bred him to a production line pharoah female, I ended up...