Faverolle wyandotte sex link?

[inquisitivebird]

If I bred a salmon Faverolle roo with a silver laced wyandotte hen, would I get sex linked chicks?

 

[artbykarenehaley]

If I bred a salmon Faverolle roo with a silver laced wyandotte hen, would I get sex linked chicks?

I believe so, let me get back to you on that.

 

[artbykarenehaley]

The answer to that according to the chicken genetics calculator is no, they will all be black patterned redshouldered/cream incomplete laced. So they'd look mostly silver with black lacing but have some red leakage.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

The Salmon variety is based on silver wheaten if I remember correctly, so breeding that to silver laced will not make sexlinks, no.

 

[inquisitivebird]

The Salmon variety is based on silver wheaten if I remember correctly, so breeding that to silver laced will not make sexlinks, no.

Ah, ok. That's what I was wondering, I thought the salmon Faverolle might be gold based because they are brown, but the chicks are light yellow, so does that mean they are silver based?

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

No, their yellow chick down is the result of wheaten (E^wh) at the E locus. I'm not sure if there's a way to tell silver wheaten from gold wheaten in chick down. I believe the reason why the salmon variety is as brownish as it is is because salmon has the mahogany gene as well, giving the males their red shoulders and yellowish hackles, and the females their darker neck feathering.

 

[Dani4Hedgies]

The answer to that according to the chicken genetics calculator is no, they will all be black patterned redshouldered/cream incomplete laced. So they'd look mostly silver with black lacing but have some red leakage.

Where do you get the chicken genetics calculator?

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

This is the basic one, pick the colors you're working with from the drop down and click 'To Chicken Calculator' on the right: http://kippenjungle.nl/Overzicht.htm#kipcalculator

There's also this version that's a little more in-depth and goes into things like comb and skin color genetics, but not as easy to just pick a color and have it plug it in: http://kippenjungle.nl/breeds/crossbreeds.html There are a couple other versions as well but I don't have the links handy.

Bear in mind that the images shown in the chicken calculator are meant to be a rough estimation of what the birds will look like and are often not completely accurate to the results in real life. But, the genetics as written should be sound.