So I've just hatched 5 chicks that were from a cream crested legbar rooster over leghorn and hyline brown hens, I've ended up with 4 completely white leghorn chicks and one hyline that appears to be black and white striped and maybe a splash of red on the wings. I know the females in this hatch would have received the Silver gene from the CCL rooster so I'm wondering what the odds of getting sex links from crossing them to a gold rooster like RIR or brown leghorn would be. I understand leghorns aren't usually usable due to the dominant (or is it recessive) white which will mask any other colors but I'm a bit unclear on exactly how white affects everything else and the difference between dominant and recessive white. I'm guessing it won't work with the leghorn crosses but I'm curious if crossing them back to a CCL rooster would result in a percentage of offspring that are useable in a sex-link cross. I have higher hopes for the hyline brown X but curious why I'm seeing any red on it at all and also why it came out black and white striped when earlier this year I crossed a Lavender Araucana rooster over an Isa Brown hen and the chick came out completely white. Given the Lav Araucana is supposed to be Silver like the cream legbar and isa/hyline brown are both red sex-links I'm surprised the two crosses turned out so different. Could it be the barring from the CCL rooster is dominant over straight colors or is there a subtle difference between the hyline and isa brown causing this?
