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Ok The only way you get sexlinkage to work were the color of the parents would have any dictation over the color of the chicks would be either.
With black Sexlinks. You can breed any Barred/Cuckoo hen with any color roo as long as he is NOT Barred, NOT Dominant White, and NOT Recessive white masking barring. Any other roo bred to barred hens will produce chicks that the males will be barred and the females will not be barred and they can be sexed as chicks.
The other way is by producing Red Sexlinks. In this case you have to have a roo pure for the gold genes, buff, red, and partridge the base colors that are pure for gold. And with the gold roo, you must have a silver hen that is pure to the silver genes. With Columbian, Silver Penciled, Silver laced, Birchin, and pretty much any breed with Silver in the name, you are garanteed to have silver hens, but solid White breeds can vary. Rhode Island Whites are the only white breed that always have the silver genes. There are some barred rocks that have the silver genes, but most dont and there is no way to know unless you breed them. And then most other white breeds are recessive white meaning they are white but masking another color under two copies of recessive white, they do not have the silver gene unless the color they are masking is silver. The white color in Rocks, Javas, Giants, Wyandottes, Cochins, Games, Silkies and most other breeds are all recessive white masking a color underneath ( execpt of RIWs and White Leghorns, RIWs are dom white with the silver genes, White leghorns are Dominant white without the silver genes.) So now back to Silkies, the only way a white silkie could produce sexlinks is if she was masking a Grey ( Silver Partridge) Silkie under her white, and then she would have to be bred to a gold roo, not a black. With the right colors for produceing sexlinks with a gold roo on silver hens, in the resulting offspring, the females will be pure golds and the males with have the gold and silver genes ( they will like more like the silver version of the color but will have gold sheen over the silver making them look yellow.)
And that is the only way that the color of the parents can have any effect on the color of the offspring. Hopefully that answered your questions.
Ok The only way you get sexlinkage to work were the color of the parents would have any dictation over the color of the chicks would be either.
With black Sexlinks. You can breed any Barred/Cuckoo hen with any color roo as long as he is NOT Barred, NOT Dominant White, and NOT Recessive white masking barring. Any other roo bred to barred hens will produce chicks that the males will be barred and the females will not be barred and they can be sexed as chicks.
The other way is by producing Red Sexlinks. In this case you have to have a roo pure for the gold genes, buff, red, and partridge the base colors that are pure for gold. And with the gold roo, you must have a silver hen that is pure to the silver genes. With Columbian, Silver Penciled, Silver laced, Birchin, and pretty much any breed with Silver in the name, you are garanteed to have silver hens, but solid White breeds can vary. Rhode Island Whites are the only white breed that always have the silver genes. There are some barred rocks that have the silver genes, but most dont and there is no way to know unless you breed them. And then most other white breeds are recessive white meaning they are white but masking another color under two copies of recessive white, they do not have the silver gene unless the color they are masking is silver. The white color in Rocks, Javas, Giants, Wyandottes, Cochins, Games, Silkies and most other breeds are all recessive white masking a color underneath ( execpt of RIWs and White Leghorns, RIWs are dom white with the silver genes, White leghorns are Dominant white without the silver genes.) So now back to Silkies, the only way a white silkie could produce sexlinks is if she was masking a Grey ( Silver Partridge) Silkie under her white, and then she would have to be bred to a gold roo, not a black. With the right colors for produceing sexlinks with a gold roo on silver hens, in the resulting offspring, the females will be pure golds and the males with have the gold and silver genes ( they will like more like the silver version of the color but will have gold sheen over the silver making them look yellow.)
And that is the only way that the color of the parents can have any effect on the color of the offspring. Hopefully that answered your questions.
