Breed?

[Jared Vera]

I have an idea of what they might be but I am still not too sure...

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

They looked mixed breed to me.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

The female is an RSL. The male is a backwards RSL.

 

[NatJ]

The female is an RSL. The male is a backwards RSL.

I agree, the female is colored right to be a Red Sexlink.

But the male cannot be. No matter which way you cross the parent breeds, the males come out mostly white.

Now if someone bought Red Sexlink males and Red Sexlink females and let them cross--you might get some males like that. But they would no longer be sexlinks, just barnyard mixes.

If I had to guess, I think someone bought Red Sexlink females, and then crossed them with a Rhode Island Red rooster. That could produce both colors of birds in the first photo (dark and light), in both genders.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

I agree, the female is colored right to be a Red Sexlink.

But the male cannot be. No matter which way you cross the parent breeds, the males come out mostly white.

Now if someone bought Red Sexlink males and Red Sexlink females and let them cross--you might get some males like that. But they would no longer be sexlinks, just barnyard mixes.

If I had to guess, I think someone bought Red Sexlink females, and then crossed them with a Rhode Island Red rooster. That could produce both colors of birds in the first photo (dark and light), in both genders.

Um...I don’t think that’s true. If the father was white, and the mother was red, the roos would be red.
That‘s what Amberlinks are.

 

[NatJ]

Um...I don’t think that’s true. If the father was white, and the mother was red, the roos would be red.

No, because of how the chicken sex chromosomes work.

A male inherits one Z chromosome from his father and one from his mother. If one Z chromosome has the gold gene and the other has silver, then he will look silver--because silver is dominant over gold. Might not be a clean, white-looking silver (because of the gold gene hiding in there), but still silver.

A female inherits one Z chromosome from her father, and a W chromosome from her mother. So whether she's gold or silver is determined only by that Z chromosome she got from her father. Gold rooster, gold daughter. Silver rooster, silver daughter. (Gold/Silver split rooster will produce some gold daughters, some silver daughters.)

So reversing the parents just means that all chicks, male and female, are the same color at hatch (yellow).

That‘s what Amberlinks are.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...derstanding-the-genetics-behind-them.1322163/

First post has a photo of a rooster (ISA Brown or Amberlink, it says they look the same), and of an Amberlink hen.

The genetic info is all in there too, but it's rather heavy reading.

Yes, they have the same parent types as ISA Brown (Red Sexlinks), but which parent is which color has been switched.

Both genders look "white" from the silver gene, but both genders also have various amounts of red showing through because of other genes they carry.

The rooster does not look like the one in the first post of this thread.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

No, because of how the chicken sex chromosomes work.

A male inherits one Z chromosome from his father and one from his mother. If one Z chromosome has the gold gene and the other has silver, then he will look silver--because silver is dominant over gold. Might not be a clean, white-looking silver (because of the gold gene hiding in there), but still silver.

A female inherits one Z chromosome from her father, and a W chromosome from her mother. So whether she's gold or silver is determined only by that Z chromosome she got from her father. Gold rooster, gold daughter. Silver rooster, silver daughter. (Gold/Silver split rooster will produce some gold daughters, some silver daughters.)

So reversing the parents just means that all chicks, male and female, are the same color at hatch (yellow).



https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...derstanding-the-genetics-behind-them.1322163/

First post has a photo of a rooster (ISA Brown or Amberlink, it says they look the same), and of an Amberlink hen.

The genetic info is all in there too, but it's rather heavy reading.

Yes, they have the same parent types as ISA Brown (Red Sexlinks), but which parent is which color has been switched.

Both genders look "white" from the silver gene, but both genders also have various amounts of red showing through because of other genes they carry.

The rooster does not look like the one in the first post of this thread.

Wow. Ok. Lol.
I know nothing about genetics apparently.
Thanks.

 

[NatJ]

I know nothing about genetics apparently.

Genetics certainly can be confusing. And if you think you know about one kind of genetics (humans or dogs, for example), chicken genetics can still confuse you because of the ways it is different.

For starters, chickens have their sex chromosomes backwards of what mammals do! So all the sex-linked parts feel messed up, at least until you get used to it.