I’ve created some new sex links!

[KiwiandPeachthePigeons]

I was experimenting with breeding a Buff Orphington hen with my white Silkie rooster. The result? In the first batch I got one white chick, who grew up to be a rooster. Next batch up, I got 12 buff colored chicks and two white chicks. The white chicks both grew up to be roosters and the buff ones turned out as hens!

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Mmm... I think its coincidence. When they make sex links, amber or red, they use a white roo over a buff or red hen... It has to do with the sex linking of the silver gene, I believe.

 

[MysteryChicken]

I'll have to try this out.

 

[Severne]

Congratulations if you are correct, if you are, it may just be your specific chicken. If I created a new sex-(and I don’t know much about this), I would find some way to patent it or somehow protect it till I was ready to reslease it to the industry. I’m currently working on a high production sexlink blue egg layer with NO beard, muffs, or rumples tails. Good LUCK!

 

[keesmom]

The only sex linkage you would be able get from that cross (silkie male x non-silkie female) is skin color. Pullets would have dark skin, cockerels light.

 

[MysteryChicken]

The only sex linkage you would be able get from that cross (silkie male x non-silkie female) is skin color. Pullets would have dark skin, cockerels light.

My Silkies skin color has nothing to do with sex linkage. Most of my females have light colored black skin, & same with my roosters. The only males I have with really dark black skin I have are a couple I got from a SQ Silkie Breeder in Ohio.

I have a White Silkie X Porcelain D'Uccle mix, & she has light colored Black skin.

Sorry if you can't tell, I'll have to get better photos.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

My Silkies skin color has nothing to do with sex linkage. Most of my females have light colored black skin, & same with my roosters. The only males I have with really dark black skin I have are a couple I got from a SQ Silkie Breeder in Ohio.

I have a White Silkie X Porcelain D'Uccle mix, & she has light colored Black skin.
View attachment 2055872Sorry if you can't tell, I'll have to get better photos.View attachment 2055874

You can't even see her skin in those pics

 

[MysteryChicken]

You can't even see her skin in those pics

I know, that's why I gotta get better one's, but you can see a little bit of her face in the second picture.