Needing "genetics experts" advise please - curious

[Yard full o' rocks]

I have a 19 week old Delaware roo (and his sister who is not laying yet) in with 4 BO girls who are all laying. He has been regularly breeding the Buff Orp girls so I decided to throw a few eggs in the 'bator with my wife's Polish eggs to see if he was fertile. Should these develop, what type colorations might I expect? I have experimented with the "chicken color calculator" but I am not sure what a Delaware is classified as. Not a biggy, just more curious than anything. Thanks in advance!!

 

[pips&peeps]

I think you will get sex linked chicks. The whites will be females and the sort of buff colored ones will be males.

 

[Yard full o' rocks]

pips&peeps :

I think you will get sex linked chicks. The whites will be females and the sort of buff colored ones will be males.

Thanks for the help....guess that could be a "good thing", right? I really dont want any more roos, I have plenty(mostly young ones growing up). Will the females just be "plain white"?? Thanks again....I am soooo new to this that the genetics thing gets me really confused​

 

[Goose and Fig]

Maybe you'd get some kind of columbian pattern- like a brahma- with the dark in the tail and neck.

 

[blackdotte]

Sorry to tell you the mating will not give sex linked chicks. The pullets will be like their father and the cockerels will be similar bit split for both silver & gold.
David

 

[Byrdj]

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David, that is because you have to use a red based rooster such as a Buff Orpington or RIR over a silver based hen. Not the other way around correct?

 

[tadkerson]

A silver/gold sex linked cross is a silver columbian restricted wheaten or silver columbian restricted eb female on a wheaten and columbian restricted gold male.

Delaware male on B O Female = silver females with some black in the wings and tail and males that are silver or silver with some light cream color in the pyle zone. Black in the wings and tail.

The crosses I have made with BO produced birds with a BO body type and feather texture like a BO.

Tim

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

If you are creating a red sexlink, the female must be silver and the male gold.