Goldtop - boy or girl?

[Panth]

I am interested in the genes in this mix that would make it a sex link. I thought it was the cuckoo/columbian color mix that caused sexlinks... I would love more info.

 

[aoxa]

HI I have silkies and gold tops. To Produce a gold top you would need a white silkie roo (as they carry the gold gene) over a light Sussex. Your chick looks like a roo he is lovely, but his feathers are very silkie like. Gold tops have normal looking feathers with the flufier type around the underneath of the bird. He isnt a true Silkie either though because of his comb which would be a walnut shape if he was all Silke. I would guess he has silkie and Sussex in him but maybe the hen was the Silkie. Either way he is a gorgeous boy hope he isnt too noisy and you can keep him

If the silkies that were bred were from hatchery stock, they could still be pure and have a single comb. Obviously they would be automatically DQ from show. Does not make them any less silkie.

To the OP: I think you are right, and did get a rogue egg. This one looks like a silkie with something else in it's distant past. I do think that white one you posted above is a girl though