Pullet or Cockerel?

[donrae]

The sexlinking only works with a barred hen and a genetically gold male. Like a red for instance. What color was you male?

Ehh...not true. Or, you're confusing red sex links with black sex links.

Red sex links need a gold male over a silver female, yes.

black sex links need a non-barred, non-white male over a barred female. if the female is barred, the male can be gold or silver, doesn't matter. If you use a silver male, your offspring will have silver leakage, instead of the classic red/gold look.



In this case, the white rooster is apparently harboring barring, hidden by the white "off" switch. One of the cool things about breeding crosses with white birds, you get all sorts of chicks cropping up.

 

[arr36]

Despite having a medical degree, all these barring genetics are so confusing to me! It wasn't an intentional cross, but the cream leg bars go broody every summer and are lovely mothers, so we usually let them hatch out one brood each year (they share the incubation and the raising between the three girls really sweetly), and as we don't have a legbar male right now our cute little cockerel gets to have some babies

So - jury still out on the sex?! I guess eventually he will either crow or lay......

 

[donrae]

Oh, sorry, it looks like a pullet from what I can see. A clearer, closer pic of the bird standing naturally in profile would help. But I'm not seeing any male feathering at this point, and since you're sure of age it should be apparent by now.

 

[drumstick diva]

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