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  1. birdbrain79

    Sex- linked Information

    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.
  2. birdbrain79

    Sex- linked Information

    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...
  3. birdbrain79

    Sex- linked Information

    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.
  4. birdbrain79

    Sex- linked Information

    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...
  5. birdbrain79

    Sex- linked Information

    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...
  6. birdbrain79

    Sex- linked Information

    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...
  7. birdbrain79

    Sex- linked Information

    Hello Chicken Community, I'm knew to the site. I really enjoy this sexlink topic. Correct me if I'm wrong. A silver duckwing cock over barred hens would produce black sexlink pullets with silver hackles. Those pullets bred to red or black cocks would make another generation of sexlinks, all of...
  8. birdbrain79

    Sex- linked Information

    If you read this and have questions, please send me a Personal Message and I will create a question and answer section in this post. This way individuals do not have to search through the posts to find answers to their questions. Introduction The number 1 rule is that two sex linked...
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