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

[walkswithdog]

Ah but a GOLD male over a silver female is a totally different mating than a SILVER male over a gold based female. It doesn't work the same.

Check the chicken calculator

I spend tooo much time there.

For instance a partridge rock male over a delaware hen produces a different color value:

a gold incomplete (smutty)columbian pullet
(dark gold)
and a golden (yellow) columbian cockerals, lighter.

But the Delaware roo, columbian and barred and silver, over a partridge hen, yields Gold - dark gold, barred and columbian roos, and silver/barred/columbian hens (essentially delaware in appearance).

Sex linked genes don't work in the inverse the way they do in the original.

Silver (m) over gold(f) is different than gold (m) over silver(f).

Clear as mud eh?

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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No because breeding a rhode island red to a silver female (white rock) will give a sex-link.



Ugh....no chicken calculator for me! lol! That thing blows my mind. I like mud...it makes great pies.

 

[walkswithdog]

There are two ways to make sex links.

Unfortunately or fortunately having delawares I get to see both.

Either Barring. OR Silver/gold sex linking.

Delawares offer both so I have an indicator of sex of nearly anything cross bred to my delaware roo, on my property.

If it shows up MALE and barred, not columbian - then the father was one of my solid color roos, to a delaware or barred rock hen.

If it shows up solid colored it's female, or if it's any color other than Delaware, it's father was solid colored.

In some ways it's wonderful, in some disappointing, ALWAYS knowing when it's a mixed cockeral is kind of sad.

Only the Delaware chicks, that are pure delaware have any capacity to surprise me now

The BC marans pullet now growing out will throw me some Creles

and birds I can use toward a crele colored meat flock.

Sex linking can be based on BARRING

OR

Silver/Gold

or both.

 

[nelli21]

This discussion is so interesting!!! One of the things that surprises me is that there is more credence (or seems to be) for the comb/wattle color than for its behavioral characteristics. Which makes me wonder about the reliability of the two indicators.

Which do you find is more reliable, the comb/wattle or behavior? That is one reason this chick is confusing me. Seems to look like a roo but acts like a hen.

And we'll still have to wait to see.... because there is a chance that a buff orpington was the mommy. Which walkswithdog has said may throw off the sex link.

I will keep my promise and update with pictures as time goes on.

Thanks,
Nelli

 

[Dustin Biery]

When I take into consideration the behavior of a particular chick, you also have to consider all those around. If you have one chick in the group who is dominant, the others will be submissive like hens. its just the pecking order, even at a young age.

 

[trilyn]

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x's 2!

 

[nelli21]

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Oh. Well, this one is all by itself so it is probably just imitating its mommy then?

 

[nelli21]

Hey! This give me a little hope.
A lot of people thought this was a roo:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=230462&p=4

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

I'm not seeing a roo. Yes, the comb and wattles are pink, but they are not that roo-ish to me. Plus I don't see a single pointed hackle or saddle feather. So, I'm saying pullet.

 

[Dustin Biery]

But that bird is only 7 1/2 weeks old. You shouldn't have that much red pigmentation in a female until close to laying age.