Golden comets as meat birds?

[Floof]

With a Delaware female and a Rhode Island Red male, the female chicks will look like the Rhode Island Red and the males will look like the Delaware. If you reversed it and put a Delaware male with a Rhode Island Red female, the chicks would all look like Delawares.

I'm just starting to learn about the genetics of it. How does that combo work? If the boy had white/white and the female had red/- then wouldn't the offspring be a random mix and not sexable by color?

 

[Mosey2003]

I'm just starting to learn about the genetics of it. How does that combo work? If the boy had white/white and the female had red/- then wouldn't the offspring be a random mix and not sexable by color?

This is what you want to read:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/sex-linked-information.261208/

 

[cmom]

I'm just starting to learn about the genetics of it. How does that combo work? If the boy had white/white and the female had red/- then wouldn't the offspring be a random mix and not sexable by color?

Years ago I experimented with making sex links. I did the Delaware/Rhode Island Red among other combinations.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I'm just starting to learn about the genetics of it. How does that combo work? If the boy had white/white and the female had red/- then wouldn't the offspring be a random mix and not sexable by color?

Following Mosey's link would help. That gives a good explanation.

With Delaware the white comes from the silver gene. With RIR the red comes from the gold gene. Silver dominates gold so the Delaware male's silver would negate the RIR females gold and all chicks would be white.

 

[cmom]

Following Mosey's link would help. That gives a good explanation.

With Delaware the white comes from the silver gene. With RIR the red comes from the gold gene. Silver dominates gold so the Delaware male's silver would negate the RIR females gold and all chicks would be white.

Delaware female + RIR male = red female (look like RIR chicks) and white male
RIR female + Delaware male = all chicks will be white