My little cross breeds just hatched

[Cool_Catrules456]

No, they are not sexlinks. You cannot sex them by color.

Gold/silver sexlinks require a gold father and silver mother.
So a Silver Polish rooster can never be the father of this kind of sexlink.

"Black" sexlinks rely on the barring gene (causes a white spot on the head at hatch, and white barring on the feathers as the chicken grows.)
A not-barred father and a barred mother will produce barred sons and not-barred daughters.
Because this requires the mother to have barring, a "black sexlink hen" (who has no barring) can never be the mother of a black sexlink chick.

The kind of feather sexing that is used commercially only works with specific sets of parents: the father must have the genes for fast feathering and the mother must have the gene for slow feathering. This produces slow feathering sons and fast feathering daughters. So this probably does not work on your chicks either (maybe, but not likely.)

Some people claim to be able to sex chicks by their wing feathers, even without the fast/slow feathering genes. I am doubtful about that, but I have no proof either way. If that is what you are trying, I cannot say whether it will work or not.

Ah onay thank you, Im not really gonna do anything with them other then start calling them what gender i think they are. I was going to wait for the first crow to be 100% sure anyways though thanks! Im new to the whole sexing chicks thing.

 

[NatJ]

Ah onay thank you, Im not really gonna do anything with them other then start calling them what gender i think they are. I was going to wait for the first crow to be 100% sure anyways though thanks! Im new to the whole sexing chicks thing.

Waiting to confirm is a good plan.
Yes, sexing can be complicated.
And some internet articles make it worse, by getting things wrong.

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

Waiting to confirm is a good plan.
Yes, sexing can be complicated.
And some internet articles make it worse, by getting things wrong.

Yeah, thanks for the help! From now on I will just be posting pictures of each of them until the first egg or crow.

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

I just relized something. The black one could be a black sexlink after all. The person i got them from has a bard rock roo and rode island red hens. I know the cross is normally rode island red roo and bard rock hen but could this work? They are showing signs of being a black sexlink. EX slight balding. I had a true Black sexlink who also had slight balding at this age. Im not sure if this is the rooster father but it could be. Know the reason i am confused is its a family member I got them from he had 4 roosters before now its only two. So I keep forgetting about the others. I should probably list off all te breeds hes got.
Bard rock roo
Rode island roo
Golden sexlink roo
Silver laced polish roo
Rode island hens
A Black sexlink hen
Cochin mixes (not these ones came out of brown eggs not white)
Some golden sexlink hens mixed in
Thats it.

Waiting to confirm is a good plan.
Yes, sexing can be complicated.
And some internet articles make it worse, by getting things wrong.

 

[TheFatBlueCat]

I just relized something. The black one could be a black sexlink after all. The person i got them from has a bard rock roo and rode island red hens. I know the cross is normally rode island red roo and bard rock hen but could this work? They are showing signs of being a black sexlink. EX slight balding. I had a true Black sexlink who also had slight balding at this age. Im not sure if this is the rooster father but it could be. Know the reason i am confused is its a family member I got them from he had 4 roosters before now its only two. So I keep forgetting about the others. I should probably list off all te breeds hes got.
Bard rock roo
Rode island roo
Golden sexlink roo
Silver laced polish roo
Rode island hens
A Black sexlink hen
Cochin mixes (not these ones came out of brown eggs not white)
Some golden sexlink hens mixed in
Thats it.

No the cross doesn't work in reverse for sex-links, the mother must be the barred parent and the rooster must be solid. A true barred rock rooster has 2 barring genes so all of his offspring will be barred, both male and female, unless there is some other genetic pattern that masks the barring from the hen side (but the chicks will still carry a barred gene even if you can't see it).

 

[NatJ]

I should probably list off all te breeds hes got.
Bard rock roo
Rode island roo
Golden sexlink roo
Silver laced polish roo
Rode island hens
A Black sexlink hen
Cochin mixes (not these ones came out of brown eggs not white)
Some golden sexlink hens mixed in
Thats it.

You had previously listed the Silver Laced Polish rooster as the father of all the chicks.
Were they all in the same pen together? Because if so, any rooster "could" be the father of the chicks.

You should be able to confirm that as the chicks grow: if they have a Polish father they will grow crests on their heads and will probably have a duplex comb, but if they have any other father they will have a single comb and no crest. (It's hard to see combs on tiny chicks, so I'm not sure what kind the black chick and the gray chick have.)

The fist chick: silver layced polish roo X golden sexlink hen.

This chick shows a lot of brown. That should not be possible with a Silver Laced Polish father. The father must be either Rhode Island Red or Golden Sexlink. I don't know which hen would be the mother, but Golden Sexlink is certainly possible.

(If it grows a crest on the head, that would mean the Polish really is the father, and I would be wrong about the color genetics.)

second chick black sexlink hen X silver layced polish roo

Those parents are probably correct for this chick.

But if does not grow a crest, it probably has either the Rhode Island Red or the Gold Sexlink for the father. If it has no barring, it cannot have a Barred Rock father.

The mother probably is the Black Sexlink, because I don't think any of the other breeds could produce a black chick like this.

silver layced polish roo X ??? Brown layer maybe another black sexlink maybe something else

That chick looks blue to me, which should not be possible from that list of parents.
So I'll just say it's a mystery for now, and hope it becomes more clear as the chick grows.

Crest would indicate a Polish father.
White barring would indicate a Barred Rock father.

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

You had previously listed the Silver Laced Polish rooster as the father of all the chicks.
Were they all in the same pen together? Because if so, any rooster "could" be the father of the chicks.

You should be able to confirm that as the chicks grow: if they have a Polish father they will grow crests on their heads and will probably have a duplex comb, but if they have any other father they will have a single comb and no crest. (It's hard to see combs on tiny chicks, so I'm not sure what kind the black chick and the gray chick have.)


This chick shows a lot of brown. That should not be possible with a Silver Laced Polish father. The father must be either Rhode Island Red or Golden Sexlink. I don't know which hen would be the mother, but Golden Sexlink is certainly possible.

(If it grows a crest on the head, that would mean the Polish really is the father, and I would be wrong about the color genetics.)


Those parents are probably correct for this chick.

But if does not grow a crest, it probably has either the Rhode Island Red or the Gold Sexlink for the father. If it has no barring, it cannot have a Barred Rock father.

The mother probably is the Black Sexlink, because I don't think any of the other breeds could produce a black chick like this.


That chick looks blue to me, which should not be possible from that list of parents.
So I'll just say it's a mystery for now, and hope it becomes more clear as the chick grows.

Crest would indicate a Polish father.
White barring would indicate a Barred Rock father.

Correct, he lets his chickens free range in the day all together, the reason I belived it was the same father was the others never openly mated. He was all over the hens allmost all the time. The bard rock roo had some issues with its feet and could not walk far. So unlikely that it is the father. The brown one could be a rode island red or a rode island red golden sex link or just a pure golden sexlink, although he or she has a crest on their head you can see it in the second photo. The black one is probably a black sexlink X bard rock, as it came out of the smallest eggs (black sexlinks tend to lay smaller eggs) and its got some barding. now the gray one if you look for it has some wite patchs on its wings (very small though). the brown one has black stripes down its back im not sure if you can see them in the picture.

As for the combs the brown one has a single
The black one its too hard to tell ill check again tomorrow
And the gray one is also to hard to tell ill get a better look at it tomorrow too

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

Correct, he lets his chickens free range in the day all together, the reason I belived it was the same father was the others never openly mated. He was all over the hens allmost all the time. The bard rock roo had some issues with its feet and could not walk far. So unlikely that it is the father. The brown one could be a rode island red or a rode island red golden sex link or just a pure golden sexlink, although he or she has a crest on their head you can see it in the second photo. The black one is probably a black sexlink X silver laced polish, as it came out of the smallest eggs (black sexlinks tend to lay smaller eggs) and its got some barding. now the gray one if you look for it has some wite patchs on its wings (very small though). the brown one has black stripes down its back im not sure if you can see them in the picture.

Now he had some blue cochin mixs but they layed white eggs not brown. But those are the only gray chickens he had. Hm he also hatched eggs from his chickens none of them where gray. Im starting to wonder if we have a fence hopper. Or maybe it was one of the cochin mixs? Maybe one of them lays brown eggs? Its the only option actually. They look like a cochin chick without feathered feet.
I should probably say they where bantams. Or atlest smaller thwn normal.
Also i dont know if this helps or not but the silver laced polish rooster was only slightly laced mostly white with some black lacing. Mainly near the wings and crest.

 

[Cool_Catrules456]

No the cross doesn't work in reverse for sex-links, the mother must be the barred parent and the rooster must be solid. A true barred rock rooster has 2 barring genes so all of his offspring will be barred, both male and female, unless there is some other genetic pattern that masks the barring from the hen side (but the chicks will still carry a barred gene even if you can't see it).

Ah okay, thanks for the info. Genetics are still new to me Im better with the whole hatching part of chickens.

 

[TheFatBlueCat]

Ah okay, thanks for the info. Genetics are still new to me Im better with the whole hatching part of chickens.

New to me too! I only know about barring because I have and breed barred rocks. I'm completely stumped when it comes to almost everything else