Lost in genetics...please help with chicken pairing

[Goosey Girl]

Okay. I've searched threads and just can't find definitive answers.

I have 7 hens and 1 Silver Laced Wyandotte rooster. I want to incubate eggs that will produce sexlink chicks. What hen will do this?

My hens: 2 Silver laced Wyandottes, 2 white leghorns, 1 Plymouth barred rock, 1 Australorp, and 1 black sexlink. I think I can eliminate the sexlink and other wyandottes. If you have dabbled with any of these combos, please let me know.

The photo is a picture of our roo just out of the box from the hatchery 14 months ago! And one of the handsome boy now.

 

[nuthatched]

I think since all of your chickens are silver/black based (except for the sexlink and the undisclosed wyandottes) the chicks can't be sexlink. But i'm not sure.
@MysteryChicken I can't remember, are you the genetics whiz?

 

[EmmaRainboe]

You can create black sexlinks if you cross him to the barred plymouth rock. Cockerels will be barred, pullets will not.

 

[MysteryChicken]

If you have gold, or Barred birds, it can work.

Solid male over Barred Female makes Barred Males, & Solid none Barred females.

Gold Based(Red), or just Gold Male over Silver Females gives Gold split for Silver(Yellow/Golden)males, & Gold Females.

 

[nuthatched]

You can create black sexlinks if you cross him to the barred plymouth rock. Cockerels will be barred, pullets will not.

With a silver laced sire? I reallty need you and all the genetic geniuses to make a thread and break it down so a lump like me can understand it!

 

[Ridgerunner]

With a silver laced sire? I reallty need you and all the genetic geniuses to make a thread and break it down so a lump like me can understand it!

Ask and you shall receive. I consider Tadkerson one of the top three geneticists that was ever active on this forum. Unfortunately none of them are now active. I don't know if you can understand this, I'll freely admit I had to read it several times before even the basics sunk in. I find the more I learn about this the less I actually know. Whether or not you can actually get your head around it I don't know. Many people can't. Or won't. Good luck with it.

Tadkerson’s Sex Link Thread

http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261208

I have 7 hens and 1 Silver Laced Wyandotte rooster. I want to incubate eggs that will produce sexlink chicks. What hen will do this?

My hens: 2 Silver laced Wyandottes, 2 white leghorns, 1 Plymouth barred rock, 1 Australorp, and 1 black sexlink. I think I can eliminate the sexlink and other wyandottes. If you have dabbled with any of these combos, please let me know.

There are a few things that have to happen before you get a sex linked chick. The mother has to have the Dominant version of the sex linked gene and the father has to have both genes at that gene pair to be the Recessive version of that sex linked gene. The other one is that you have to be able to see the difference at hatch. It's easy to forget this second one, actually being able to see it.

Your Silver Laced Male and Barred Rock female meet both of these requirements according to Tadkerson's Chart for Black Sex Links. I have not done that cross myself. When they hatch the males will have barring and the females will not. The way you see the barring at hatch is that the boy will have a spot on it's head and the girls will not. That article has photos showing what to look for.

There are combinations where the boys will be barred and the girls will not but you can't see the head spot at hatch because of the down color. Once they feather out you will see the barring on the boys feathers as long as the feathers are not white but you can't see it at hatch.

 

[Goosey Girl]

Ask and you shall receive. I consider Tadkerson one of the top three geneticists that was ever active on this forum. Unfortunately none of them are now active. I don't know if you can understand this, I'll freely admit I had to read it several times before even the basics sunk in. I find the more I learn about this the less I actually know. Whether or not you can actually get your head around it I don't know. Many people can't. Or won't. Good luck with it.

Tadkerson’s Sex Link Thread

http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261208


There are a few things that have to happen before you get a sex linked chick. The mother has to have the Dominant version of the sex linked gene and the father has to have both genes at that gene pair to be the Recessive version of that sex linked gene. The other one is that you have to be able to see the difference at hatch. It's easy to forget this second one, actually being able to see it.

Your Silver Laced Male and Barred Rock female meet both of these requirements according to Tadkerson's Chart for Black Sex Links. I have not done that cross myself. When they hatch the males will have barring and the females will not. The way you see the barring at hatch is that the boy will have a spot on it's head and the girls will not. That article has photos showing what to look for.

There are combinations where the boys will be barred and the girls will not but you can't see the head spot at hatch because of the down color. Once they feather out you will see the barring on the boys feathers as long as the feathers are not white but you can't see it at hatch.

That is so cool! I actually had some eggs from my Plymouth barred rock a few weeks ago, placed them in my new Nuture Right 360, got myself a candler, checked all the temp and humidity, but I forgot one vital detail...eggs will never grow if they aren't fertile. Oops..rookie mistake!

My rooster, Ozzie, must be taking some time off from his roosterly duties. All the eggs were yolkers. I do know the incubator works great and am ready for my next egg-venture. Hopefully he gets back to work soon! Once he gets busy, I can get busy with the incubator.

Thanks for the explanation, I have a much better plan for the spring! I'm glad one of my combinations will work.

 

[buckock]

Okay. I've searched threads and just can't find definitive answers.

I have 7 hens and 1 Silver Laced Wyandotte rooster. I want to incubate eggs that will produce sexlink chicks. What hen will do this?

My hens: 2 Silver laced Wyandottes, 2 white leghorns, 1 Plymouth barred rock, 1 Australorp, and 1 black sexlink. I think I can eliminate the sexlink and other wyandottes. If you have dabbled with any of these combos, please let me know.

The photo is a picture of our roo just out of the box from the hatchery 14 months ago! And one of the handsome boy now.

I have hatched a SLW rooter that I crossed with a white leghorn and golden comet. All the chicks were white with an occasional black spot/feather. The dominant White gene blocks the Silver lacing. It surprised me because the golden comets are golden colored... but they still have one white gene from the White Rock Rooster that was their father. There was no difference between the males and females in color although our sample (4 leghorn crosses and 2 golden comet cross) was small. We also have silver and gold laced hens. The silver gene is dominant so all the chicks from the Wyandotte hens were silver laced wyandottes.

 

[Goosey Girl]

Oh how cute! It seems like my only guarantee for sexlink is with my barred rock hen. And for consistency, can breed pure wyandottes with those hens. Did your leghorn crosses have shorter combs and did the babies lay white eggs when they grew up?

 

[nicalandia]

Ask and you shall receive. I consider Tadkerson one of the top three geneticists that was ever active on this forum. Unfortunately none of them are now active. I don't know if you can understand this.

You don't have to be a geneticist to understand about genetics and to help out on this forum.


The only visibly sex linked progeny will come from the Barred Rock hens, but the White Leghorns are known to carry many sex linkage mutations like barring, but due to dominant white and Extended Black any possible sex linkage is disguised by them