Cuckoo Maran Sex link!

[donrae]

In my experience with sex links, any white/cream/non-black on the head is male

 

[RoosterRiot]

You're probably right. Good think there a more right behind them in the incubator!

 

[ElsaZ]

Hi. I think this is not working for me or am I getting all females? I crossed a Cuckoo Marans hen with a Lavender Ameraucana Rooster and none of the offspring has a dot on the head. Some of them look more like her mom when she was a baby chick (Marans features with a white chest and white coloration on the wings) but without the dot on the head. Others were completely black. Now they are 1 month old and black, it is confusing because they look like Black Ameraucanas. Is it possible this is not working for me?

 

[Hensndoes]

Hi. I think this is not working for me or am I getting all females? I crossed a Cuckoo Marans hen with a Lavender Ameraucana Rooster and none of the offspring has a dot on the head. Some of them look more like her mom when she was a baby chick (Marans features with a white chest and white coloration on the wings) but without the dot on the head. Others were completely black. Now they are 1 month old and black, it is confusing because they look like Black Ameraucanas. Is it possible this is not working for me?

It’s genetics. The mother passes her barring gene only to her sons. So a barred mother and nonbarred father will always produce young that sex can be determined at hatch. If you got all pullets I’d called that hen a preferred breeder!

 

[ElsaZ]

It’s genetics. The mother passes her barring gene only to her sons. So a barred mother and nonbarred father will always produce young that sex can be determined at hatch. If you got all pullets I’d called that hen a preferred breeder!

Thank you very much. lol yes! I was worried because in theory it's supposed to work like that, but the thing is that every little chick that hatched since January 2019 looked exactly the same. I have some that are over a month now, others are 3 weeks, 2 weeks and the group from yesterday. This morning I finally hatched my first boy!!! Yay!!! I looked online and couldn't find how female and male should look like as baby chicks... So, I decided to share my pics with all of you.

And here are two pictures of females (aprox. 1 month old). The black ones of course.