Are any silkie colors sex linked?

[ravensravelry]

And does anyone have any links with chicken genetics for dummies?

 

[Amer]

Gold and silver are sexlinked genes (so like partridge and grey (which is silver partridge)). Gold over silver= gold female chicks and silver male chicks (but they are heterozygous so they will grow up to be a yellowish color.) Only problem is, gold and silver are really very visible on partridge, so don’t cross it with other colors.
Barring is also sexlinked, but I will admit cuckoo isn’t a common color. Breed a cuckoo hen and any other color male and the cockerels will have barring and the pullets will be unbarred.
Chocolate is sexlinked. Breed a chocolate male over any color female and the pullets will be chocolate while the males will not.

 

[ravensravelry]

Gold and silver are sexlinked genes (so like partridge and grey (which is silver partridge)). Gold over silver= gold female chicks and silver male chicks (but they are heterozygous so they will grow up to be a yellowish color.) Only problem is, gold and silver are really very visible on partridge, so don’t cross it with other colors.
Barring is also sexlinked, but I will admit cuckoo isn’t a common color. Breed a cuckoo hen and any other color male and the cockerels will have barring and the pullets will be unbarred.
Chocolate is sexlinked. Breed a chocolate male over any color female and the pullets will be chocolate while the males will not.

Thank you so much for the informative response! I'll be adding some of this to my notebook, I appreciate you so much for taking the time to explain that to me. I feel like a moron in some of these chicken genetic groups because I'm new to this and just trying to get a solid foundation to build up from and the genetic calculators are so confusing

 

[Debbie292d]

I have silkies and four months ago purchased 7 fancier chicks. Two wound up being chocolate. The breeder explained that if I have a chocolate rooster, I could use him for sex-linking chicks, meaning my chocolate rooster and my black hen will produce chocolate pullets and black roosters. That's as far as I got with it. I do not know what sex mine are yet, nor if both chocolates are female, I gather they aren't good for sex linking, just for creative coloring.

The other dilemma comes though. Say we hatch 12 chicks, 6 are chocolate, 6 are black. Do we try sell the chocolate pullets for more and guarantee them, then give the roosters away? They would carry chocolate I thought, but I may be wrong. I'm still learning about this myself.

I'm in a group on Facebook to help with this endeavor in case you're interested. https://www.facebook.com/groups/506611856854207/