Giant Daisies?

[pa2chitown]

If both the rooster and hens have dark 'slate' legs, how will that make a difference in the leg color of chicks?

- ok, i gottcha. I questioned earlier whether the difference in these breeds could be distinguished?

 

[Sunshine0235]

Arent these both slately legs?

 

[Sunshine0235]

I thought you were saying that the leg color will show differences in chick gender in one of your earlier posts

 

[pa2chitown]

Arent these both slately legs?

-yes they are slately. I have no knowledge of whether green or blue can be distinguished from black as chicks. I hope nobody posts the chart! whatever the chart says doesnt mean that the difference is detectable in chicks?

 

[Sunshine0235]

I think chicks leg color changes. My polish always start with whiteish pink legs, and don't turn slate until about 6ish maybe weeks old. I don't think its visible at or near hath.

 

[pa2chitown]

I thought you were saying that the leg color will show differences in chick gender in one of your earlier posts

- in context to what i was saying! It can IF the colors are distinguishable. If both sex linked and non sex linked are yellow, for example, it wont help.

 

[pa2chitown]

I think chicks leg color changes. My polish always start with whiteish pink legs, and don't turn slate until about 6ish maybe weeks old. I don't think its visible at or near hath.

- this information could help in a cross? If black is expressed early and another "slate" is expressed late? I dont know but it is easy to research. For certain, leg color IS used in some sex linked crosses.

 

[Sunshine0235]

This is all I'm seeing, so if you have a better read, I would appreciate it.

black/fm male over a yellow or white shanked female. Females hatch dark, males light.

 

[donrae]

You have sex linked females. They have only one sex chromosome that they received from poor old pappy.
The females will all look like characteristic black females.
The males will have one sex linked chromosome and one non sex linked. If there were no other genes participating in the dosage based trait, the males would look just like the females. This is what people mean when they say "you dont have a sex linked cross". HOWEVER, since other allelez for color exist the gene product " bleeds through". So the chick, just like the adult will have some minor colors that appear in an otherwise dominant trait.
You see, in this case, dominant means most abundant gene product.
So, once again, if it looks like a characteristic female, it probably is. If it has abnormal color(s) this is a male with one sex linked chromosome and one "other".

In other words, the female cant look like anything other than a female (as much as always), the male can vary from female looking to anything abnormal for females (which you describe correctly).

The shanks could be a clue but i dont know if you can determine color difference between the two breeds at this age?

Again, so much typing, but no response to a very simple, specific question. If all these chicks from this cross are female, what would a male chick look like? And what sex linked characteristic are you using to determine gender? Extended black from the father isn't sex linked. Gold from the female isn't sex linked. So where is your sex linkage? In terms the average backyard chicken keeper can understand and plainly see in their own birds.

 

[Sunshine0235]

Again, so much typing, but no response to a very simple, specific question. If all these chicks from this cross are female, what would a male chick look like? And what sex linked characteristic are you using to determine gender? Extended black from the father isn't sex linked. Gold from the female isn't sex linked. So where is your sex linkage? In terms the average backyard chicken keeper can understand and plainly see in their own birds.

I'm not 100% sure still on what sex linkage he is talking about, but he isn't saying all the chicks are female, he is saying all the female chicks from this hatch will look like sexlinks I think.
Kind of wordy there


I'm still trying to figure out 100% what he is saying