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  1. Ridgerunner

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    The Cream Legbar hen is based on gold. The Marans rooster could be silver, gold, or split. That part doesn't matter. Silver is dominant over gold and those are sex linked genes. The hen has the recessive gene, she cannot override what the male has, whatever that is. Any differences in the...
  2. Ridgerunner

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    As long as the Buff Orp/EE cross rooster is not barred, yes, you got a boy.
  3. Ridgerunner

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    The Light Sussex hen is not barred so you cannot make a Black Sex Link. The Light Sussex hen has silver so she can be used to make a Red Sex Link with the right rooster. The Black Copper rooster has gold so that part works. But one of the requirements is that you have to be able to see the...
  4. Ridgerunner

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    If you read the comments in the first post in this thread right after that red sex link tale it discusses this, especially the RIW hen. The simple answer is yes they will be red sex links. You should be able to tell the difference in the boys and girls. The buff instead of red may make it a...
  5. Ridgerunner

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    If you look in the very first post in this thread there is a red sex link chart. If you mate your RIR rooster with any of the hens on the right you should get red sex link chicks.
  6. Ridgerunner

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    If a Buff Orp rooster breeds with a Barred Rock hen, the chicks will be black sex links. The boys will have a spot on the head, the girls will not. When they feather out the boys will be barred, the girls will not. A Buff Orp rooster will have Gold. A Barred rock hen may or may not have...
  7. Ridgerunner

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    The calculator is saying that there should be different colors. That's just the way silver expresses itself when they feather out. I don't know how much the recessive gold has to do with it. On the males the silver produces a gold tint in the saddle and hackles. That's not going to show up...
  8. Ridgerunner

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    If you look in the red sex link chart in the first post in this thread, you will get your answer. The answer is yes.
  9. Ridgerunner

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    From the American Poultry Association Rhode Island Reds Single Comb and Rose Comb American Rhode Island Whites Rose Comb only American I'll include the link http://amerpoultryassn.com/Recognized_Large_Fowl.htm Some hatcheries here in the US do have a...
  10. Ridgerunner

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    Rhode Island Whites are a separate breed from Rhode Island Reds though the name is similar. Reds can have either a rose or single comb, Whites can only have a rose comb. The rose comb is dominant so if even one Rose gene is present you will see it's affects. If it is mixed with a pea comb...
  11. Ridgerunner

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    No. The speckling is from what is called a mottling gene. It is recessive and is not a sex linked gene. Since it is recessive you will not see any affects the first generation. Since it is not a sex linked gene both sexes of offspring will receive one copy. To get a black sex link the hen...
  12. Ridgerunner

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    The cream legbar rooster has barring. The barred rock hen has barring. Therefore all the offspring, male and female, will have the spot since they are all barred. Since the males have two copies of the barred gene and the pullets only have one the spot should be a bit larger on the males, but...
  13. Ridgerunner

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    Thanks for that correction. So with the Silver Laced Wyandottes you should get red sex links. But since you will not be able to see it in the down color with the barred rocks it will not work. I'm not sure all barred rocks are based on silver anyway.
  14. Ridgerunner

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    Everything I can find says that the cream legbar is based on silver, not gold, so you cannot use a CLB rooster to make a red sex link. Since the CLB is barred, you cannot use a CLB rooster to make a black sex link. So no, it is not true.
  15. Ridgerunner

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    I think it is appropriate for this thread. It gives us a chance to explain how sex linking does not work, not just how it does. And it shows the importance of the male being pure for the gene in question.
  16. Ridgerunner

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    Need more details but my first thought is they the barred rooster is not pure for barring, probably a cross with something else.
  17. Ridgerunner

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    I did not forget anything. I said if you use the chickens in the chart it will work. Dominant white roosters or hens are not in that chart. With other chickens, roosters or hens, it might work or it might not. You were using a crossed rooster which makes it iffy but some crosses will work...
  18. Ridgerunner

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    There are two criteria you need to make black sex links that can be sexed at hatch. The female has to be barred and the male cannot be barred. That way all males will have barring and none of the female chicks will be barred. A barred male will have a spot on the head at hatch, a not-barred...
  19. Ridgerunner

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    For anyone wondering here is a link to that genetic calculator we are talking about. It is a lot of fun, it can be addicting, and you can learn a lot. But you are right it is fairly simplistic and does not handle some things very well. It seems to have troubles with buff sometimes and it does...
  20. Ridgerunner

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    As sure as I can be with anything concerning chicken genetics. It seems with chicken genetics every time I say something someone can come up with an exception. I understand what you are saying and logic says it should work but several years back one of the chicken genetics gurus on here was...
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