Search results for query: *

Nope, your silkie hen's chicks won't be sex linked at all. They'll pretty much be black, with maybe some leakage as they age. You'll just have to wait for other signs of gender, like combs, leg thickness, crowing, etc.

Actually, sexing the chicks is easy from the information you gave. That rooster, over a barred Rock hen, should make sex link chicks. The barred birds are males, and the solid birds are females. Same basis as the hatchery black sex links/Black Stars. Neat, huh? that's assuming all the chicks...