Easter egger cross with red production hens or hatchery Rhode Island reds

[lisa69]

I have an Easter Egger roo that is mostly white and some cinnamon colored hens. I suppose are hybrid egg layers. I also have some hatchery Rhode Island red hens. When I crossed them the chicks look sex linked. There are some that look just like roo and the others look reddish like my hens. Is it possible to tell their gender by color, as both the parent birds are hybrid?

gender my color?

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

That is rather odd.. are you sure he was the dad? Those chicks have barring.

 

[lisa69]

That is rather odd.. are you sure he was the dad? Those chicks have barring.

HE is the only man around unless the guineas mated the chickens. I see him mount the ladies regularly.

 

[ButtonquailGirl14]

HE is the only man around unless the guineas mated the chickens. I see him mount the ladies regularly.

Hmm... @aart ? @The Moonshiner ?

 

[birdlover2]

I have no idea.

 

[aart]

EE's can have sneaky genes...but I really know nothing about plumage genetics.

 

[OhZark Biddies]

Red sex links are created the other way around with a red colored ( gold) male and white ( silver) females, so your chicks will not be sex linked, so I don’t think you can really use down color to determine the genders in this case.

Reference:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/sex-linked-information.261208/

 

[StarChicken]

I have an Easter Egger roo that is mostly white and some cinnamon colored hens. I suppose are hybrid egg layers. I also have some hatchery Rhode Island red hens. When I crossed them the chicks look sex linked. There are some that look just like roo and the others look reddish like my hens. Is it possible to tell their gender by color, as both the parent birds are hybrid? View attachment 1681278 View attachment 1681279

Your Roo looks like my and my daughter's Ameraucana Roo. She's going to cross him with our Blue Copper Marans to get olive eggers.

When you cross an Ameraucana or an Araucana with another breed, you get Easter Eggers.

 

[lisa69]

Your Roo looks like my and my daughter's Ameraucana Roo. She's going to cross him with our Blue Copper Marans to get olive eggers.

When you cross an Ameraucana or an Araucana with another breed, you get Easter Eggers.

I was told he was from an Easter egger hen

 

[StarChicken]

Could well be. Our Roo looks almost exactly like him; I think he's called a "splash". At any rate, he's rather young (about a year or so old) and isn't doing his job yet.