Euskal Oiloa ( Basque Thread)

[AuroraSprings]

This is off topic, but could you use Marraduna EO hens to make sex-linked chicks? If so, which kinds if sex-linked crossings could be made?

 

[Maggiesdad]

This is off topic, but could you use Marraduna EO hens to make sex-linked chicks? If so, which kinds if sex-linked crossings could be made?

BYP mag has a good article just this month on the topic.. here.

 

[1muttsfan]

I think you could use the roosters for a sex-link cross over silver hens, I am considering doing this with a cream legbar roo over Delawares - should produce a crested hen that lays green eggs

 

[doubleatraining]

I think you could use the roosters for a sex-link cross over silver hens, I am considering doing this with a cream legbar roo over Delawares - should produce a crested hen that lays green eggs

Delawares actually are barred so you wouldn't get sex links. You'd get some pretty cool black barred chicks though!

 

[Dahlisgrams]

Quote: Thanks for the link, MD. I enjoyed that.. They always have good articles.

 

[1muttsfan]

Delawares are genetically silver, and can be used in red sex-link crosses - Gold male over Delaware female produces males with the Delaware pattern and females that are red. I have heard that the down difference is subtle, though.

http://www.ca.uky.edu/smallflocks/sex_linked_crosses.html

 

[ronott1]

Delawares are genetically silver, and can be used in red sex-link crosses - Gold male over Delaware female produces males with the Delaware pattern and females that are red. I have heard that the down difference is subtle, though.

http://www.ca.uky.edu/smallflocks/sex_linked_crosses.html

That works because there is one barring gene--Marraduna also have a barring gene so not a sex link cross. Would you get a sex link if you crossed with a New Hampshire and a Marraduna?

 

[1muttsfan]

For red sex-links, you use a Gold (eg RIR, NH) rooster over a Silver hen (eg White Rock, Delaware, SL Wyandotte) , barring is not important - Cream Legbars are also barred. The male has two sex-linked recessive gold alleles(s+/s+), while the hen has one dominant silver allele (S). All male offspring will be S/s+, therefore silver, while the hens will be s+ only, and therefore gold. If EO's are s+/s+, they can be used for this kind of sex-links.

Black sex-links use a non-barred rooster over a barred hen, such as RIR or NH over a Barred Rock hen. The female must carry the sex-linked barring gene, and the male must not carry it. Any non-barred non-white male will work in this cross.

 

[Sebrightsrock]

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[FROMWHITEDOGHILL]

SBR....nice looking birds.......that Roo really looks nice...and even has those pretty yellow shanks!!!! Thay should give you some nice babies to work with...Keep on keepin on........Mike