Another test for chicken experts: Pullet or Cockerel? (new8.5 wk pics)

[becky3086]

I don't think I would give up on this one just yet. I don't think I could positively say roo yet. Maybe if I could see this one and the others the same age but not just from looking at this one.
Everyone says it is easy to tell, and sometimes it is but I have seen several post on here where everyone was so sure of the gender and they turn out to be wrong.

 

[walkswithdog]

Hang on to hope

If the father is light brahma and the mother is an RIR - the chicks are sex linked. Pullets columbian and cockerals gold columbian.... easy tell.

 

[nelli21]

Walkswithdog-

Is that right? I don't know what "columbian" or "gold columbian" means, but I do know the chick was a light/white color with some black.

Nelli

PS I am also not 100% sure mom was a RIR.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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I thought it had to be reversed in order to get the sex-linkage? Otherwise all offspring will appear columbian?

 

[walkswithdog]

Both offspring are columbian but your sexlink shift is whether gold/silver, the hens inherit the silver and are normal white columbian marked and the males inherit the gold and are then gold columbian (yellow and black).

 

[walkswithdog]

And I learned that by having delawares - essentially barred and columbian and silver, to my partridge hens (gold), the boys are yellow and barred, the pullets appear delaware aka colubian, barred and silver (white).

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Huh...I suppose mine was just odd that way. All offspring from a Light Brahma x Buff Orpington came out normal white columbian. There were males and females in the offspring.

 

[walkswithdog]

I think it's BUFF that throws that off, because buff can have several different and masking genetic combinations.

But the Red in RIR and the Gold in Partridge Rock make it work with the silver in the Delaware or Columbian or Light Brahma male.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I don't know...I still think that one's a male. I guess we'll find out when it's grown eh?

But that's interesting. You hear of using a buff male over a silver female and still getting sex-linked offspring. Weird.

 

[Dustin Biery]

The reason it worked with the delawares and RIR is the barring, if I am not mistake. There has to be a barring gene present to create a sexlink I thought......