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Your rooster is not pure for the silver gene that's why the chicks are different colors. They aren't sex linked. The only way a silver rooster can be used in a sex linked breeding is with barred hens.

I know this is an old thread but I had to chime in because I have a Light Sussex rooster and an assortment of hens, ( Ameraucana, Buff Orpington, New Hampshire, Red Star, Silver Laced Wyandotte). Most of the offspring are silver Columbian, except the offspring of the Buff Orpington which are...

Hatching in a little giant incubator. I'm on day 18 today my humidity is at 64 degrees. I have two of the cells filled with water, should I ad more water? I'm afraid to open my incubator at this point.

It all depends on your set-up. One rooster could cover 70 hens if you had 7 runs with 10 hens each. Simply rotate your rooster to the next run every night. He wakes up to different hens every day. That will keep him motivated. Replacing the rooster every other year with a cockerel will keep you...

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Coop410silkies, The cockerel will have white legs like speckled sussex mom, the pullets will have yellow legs like their rhode island red sire.

I like the idea of creating my own breed. Whatever they may look like they will be dual purpose.

Kev, In post #1707 you say white legs are autosomal. But its not. I've been breeding chickens for over 20 years using leg color to sex link my hybrids. I have two families of chickens, one with white legs and the other with yellow legs. When I breed a yellow leg cock to a white leg hen I get...

I have two families of chickens, one with white legs and one with yellow legs. When I breed my yellow leg cocks over my white leg hens I get white leg stags and yellow leg pullets 100% of time without exception.

Hey Chickaddict44, Niblitt looks like a cool "chick" ;-)

Hey junebuggena, Point is well taken. With hatchery stock the cocks could be carrying hidden recessive traits. Fortunately with hens what you see is what you get. Line breeding toward the hen will help set the dominate traits in homozygous form.

I've been reading about sex linking by down color, but I haven't read any posts discussing sex linking by leg color. It is possible to use roosters with dominate feather color to make sex links if they have recessive leg color to the hens dominant leg color. If your sexlinked hens have white...

If a Rhode Island Red rooster is crossed with other red (gold) breeds of chickens with white legs the chicks can be sexlinked by the leg color. In fact as long as the rooster leg color is recessive to the hen leg color the chicks can be sexlinked even when the down is the same color.

A speckled orpington :-)

Usually with hens what you see is what you get.

I've read thread after thread about what makes what and I've come to the conclusion you have to breed your own to know what you have. I plan on making my own sexlinked chickens. I'll use a R.I.R. cock over Delaware, S.L.W. hens to make my own red sexlinks, and over Barred Rock and Dominique hens...

Can dominiques be used in the development of wybars? If so there would be less issue of single combs showing up.

Good luck with the wybar projects. I'm only interested in the f1 cross using SLW over BR. Can someone post pics of the f1 chicks?

Hey gang, For the f1 cross I used a silver duckwing cock over a dominique hen. The pullets would be black with silver hackles. When I cross those silver hackled black pullets with red duckwing cocks the offspring will be sexlinked because the roosters will have silver hackles and the pullets...

Thanks Kev. I'll use a silver leghorn rooster over my dominique hens to get the silver black sexlink pullets, and use a brown leghorn rooster over those sexlink pullets to get the second generation of sexlink pullets. Sexlinks used to make sexlinks, (exception to the rule) I chose leghorn...