BSL rooster over RSL =

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What would it look like I have a Black sex-link rooster and Red Sex-link hens. I am collecting eggs to hatch to give me something to do. Will it look like the dad except red barring?

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

I believe the peeps are going to look like a litter of alley cats, with phenotypes completely all over the place.

I hatched some BSLs that were F2 generation and there were some that looked like Barred Rocks, some looked like RI Reds, and everywhere in between. Lots of pea combs, too. Crazy stuff.

Of course, they were all beautiful.

 

[ticks]

Thanks. I bet they are good layers as well.

 

[walkswithdog]

The product of BSL/RSL will produce completely scatter bred birds. Absolutely no way to predict type, color, comb or leg color even. Since what you are doing is combining two birds, each from separate and segregated male and female lines, that's four completely different sets of genetics lining up to play roulette in an egg.

First generation should lay like nobody's business even if they are weird looking.

After that - successive generations gain type if you choose for type, and lose production.

So if you shoot for a specific look in subsequent generations you lose production. If you re-isolate the best layers, and a specific roo line, you'll eventually reproduce some form of specific egg layer but getting back to either BSL or RSL will probably take awhile.

 

[tadkerson]

I agree with some of what the other posters have said. But I disagree with some of the things. Not trying to be a jerk just want people to know the correct information.

All the offspring will have single combs. Pea comb is an incompletely dominant allele so one of the birds would have to have a pea comb to have offspring with a pea comb.

All of the offspring will have yellow skin.

The birds that are black will have black shanks while the black and barred birds will have dusky yellow shanks.

All the non black birds will have yellow shanks and feet.

As others have posted, the variety of birds you will get can vary:

Barred and non barred- all of the following can be barred or not barred.

Black sex link- leaking various amounts of red

red sex link or white tailed red

white leaking black- females may show some buff/red on the head and breast males will leak red in the pyle zone

black tailed red - birds will be smutty, especially the barred birds

Tim

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

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I have no doubt that you're more familiar with chicken genetics than I am, but I just had a batch of RIR (rooster) x F1 BSL and got like 4 pea combs out of the 9 peeps. Now, it's always possible that either of the parents may not have been completely purebred (if we can refer to BSLs as "purebred" just for the sake of this example).

 

[tadkerson]

Did an easter egger jump the fence?

Tim

 

[ticks]

Cool. Just a variety of different color chicks? All I want is a few pullets, I am going to keep 3 out of the 24 I'm setting. The other ones will go for free or sale. I'm not one of those genetic "freaks" Who can only have pure breds. Mutts are fine with me. BSLs and RSls are large birds, should they also be decent meat birds?

 

[tadkerson]

You will not get a meat bird from the cross. You can eat them but they will not be a large bird like a cornish cross.

Tim

 

[ticks]

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Yes, I know that. But sex-links are described as a dual purpose bird. Meat and eggs. Since they are both sex-links, I doubt that mating the two together will make them any smaller.