Hello everyone.
I am new to chicken raising, and I have a flock of 9 hens and one rooster. My rooster is a silver laced cochin and my hens are different from him. I recently raised 4 chicks (2 roosters 2 hens) from him and 3 of my hens. ( Red sex link, Black sex link, Sliver laced wyandotte) the chicks are beautiful, they all have one strip of feathers down their leg and are different colors. the only one that looks like both is the rooster who looks like a silver laced. My question is, will the hens egg production be affected by this cross breading?
I am new to chicken raising, and I have a flock of 9 hens and one rooster. My rooster is a silver laced cochin and my hens are different from him. I recently raised 4 chicks (2 roosters 2 hens) from him and 3 of my hens. ( Red sex link, Black sex link, Sliver laced wyandotte) the chicks are beautiful, they all have one strip of feathers down their leg and are different colors. the only one that looks like both is the rooster who looks like a silver laced. My question is, will the hens egg production be affected by this cross breading?
from Ohio. So glad to have you aboard. It will depend on which has the dominant gene. Red and black sex links are better layers than the silver laced, so it could decrease egg production but I wouldn't think it would be that much different. 
Keep good records and let us know how the egg production goes. 
