"Purebred" Sex Links

[Illia]

Buff over Light would make for buff females and males that look like dirty Lights. A better cross would be Partridge male, Dark female. Female offspring will be partridge, males will be very reminiscent to golden duckwing.


Blue Ameraucanas are another color carrying the silver gene. Crossing them with another color will give sex-linked offspring, however the resulting color will look much like birchen,and may take some time for the males to fully show their silver plumage. You won't see it at birth.

 

[averytds]

Hmmm, something to consider.


We hatched a few Buff Brahma roo over an EE/Dark Brahma hen once. Had two adorable bearded, muffed, pea combed feather-legged pullets. One with the dark brahma coloring/lacing and one buff with black lacing. Gosh they were cute. Still have the hen and I've been tempted to get another Buff Brahma roo and maybe make more. Wish I had more room.

 

[Farmergreen]

I hate to rain on your parade here but you guys aren't sex_linking your cross breeding. Sexlinking is crossing a small varity of birds to be able to determine sex at hatching and to aquire a better lay percentage.
Usually some type of Reds ie rode Islands, Delawares with barreds, other reds etc.
You will begain lose the sex-link quality as soon as the F-1s are crossed. So there is no pure bred sex-links. a breed is not concidered pure until it breeds back consitantly with all qualities desired. Those qualities for sex=links are the ability to determine sex from body markings or color "on the day of hatching" and good egg production.

 

[Chris09]

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I think you are missing the Question.
The OP wanted Sex-link crossing within the same breed.

Example would be like a Columbian Plymouth Rock Rooster over a Barred Plymouth Rock Hen.
Now since you bred solely from the Plymouth Rock breed the offspring would be considers a "Pure Bred" Plymouth Rock just not pure for variety.

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You all ways will. The sex-link breeding only work for on generation and you can not breed a sex-link rooster to a sex-link hen and get sex-link offspring.

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Sex-link breeding has nothing to do with egg productivity. I have been using Sex-link breeding to determine Males from Females in my meat crosses for some time now.

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So that you know there is only one Red breed and the is a Rhode Island Red. The true name for the Rhode Island Red is simply a Red. The Rhode Island part of the Rhode Island Red name is the point of origin.

Chris

 

[Farmergreen]

I don't know the date or exact location of the beginnings of sex-link, I think it was either Alabama or Gorgia Universities not sure but the sole purpose of sex links are to determine the sex of the chick at hatching So you can determine the pullets for laying. The first were Reds to barreds both very good layers. If you can't determine the sex as soon as the chick hatches they are not true sex links. I've been doing this for over 40 years Long before sex links where around. I have red sex link hens that lay an average of 280 eggs a year. Yes they also make good meat birds.
You may be able to sex link other breeds I don't know about. But if you can't determine the sex at hatching and "easily" then the are not true sex-links.

 

[Illia]

Umm, at least in my opinion, there are quite a fed red/golden sex-links out there that aren't very easy to sex at hatch. . . That doesn't make them not sex-linked. A bird really easily sexed at hatch is actually considered an auto-sexing bird.

Otherwise, to me, the only sex-links truly easy to sex at hatch are "black" sex links.

Chris is right on the dot. I think everyone knows that Sex-Linking is just an F1 thing, plus there's plenty breeds out there with enough colors to make just as successfully easy to sex offspring as do you find with hatchery sex links, and beyond that, the purpose of it is within the breeder's goals.

True sex-links, genetically, is simply through the parentage. Now by marketing terms, yes, if you cannot sex them at hatch, they would not be considered sex-links when sold. When I got some Shamos, they were sex-linked offspring. I considered it so because it was genetically so, even if you couldn't tell upon hatching due to the solid yellow wheaten coloration.

Love the idea though! There are a lot of breeds with enough colors to make a "purebred" sexlink, but sadly not many people care to obtain the breeds for such. Most people with colors of breeds beyond what hatcheries offer are in it for, well, non-production and profit, so, making sex-links is kind of out of the question. But, here's a little taste of my nonintential sex linked Polish -

Tolbunt Polish x Silver Laced Polish hen = males hatch out white w/creamy pinto spots on body. Females hatch out mostly brown and black with white spots on body. As they mature, the females will look either like Gold Laced or Tolbunt. The males will look either like creamy golden (as in, light yellow) laced birds with possible mottling.

 

[Chris09]

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Now, "Not to rain on your parade" Sex-linking chicks at birth has been around way longer than 40 years.
Breeder have been crossing Gold Gene with Silver Gene fowl for many years.

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I believe it was a Gold Gene Rooster over a Silver Hen and they were I believe a Gamefowl breed.


Chris

 

[Kansaseq]

I have a wheaten x cuckoo Marans. Unfortunately, I didn't mark her, so now am not unable to tell her apart from her wheaten Marans x rock sisters

 

[Farmergreen]

Ok we could go on forever. Went to my first cock fight in diapers never seen a Game chick you could sex at birth. But maybe I missed something. So have fun and keep your Birds looking good.

 

[Illia]

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Maybe you did?

Even Easter Eggers from hatcheries so often come up with a great example of sexing bbr/duckwing chicks at birth. . . The males are a nice creamy yellowish color with usually thin black striping, the females are more normal brown chipmunk with bold brown stripes. The males also have a very prolific yellowish white face with a bold black stripe making for good "eyeliner."