questions about sex link and dominance

[City Chicken]

i crossed a light sussex roo with a white rock- hens are all white with some very slight smokiness in their neck feathers and one or two has an odd black feather.

is white dominant?

also,
if i breed my light sussex roo to rhode island red hens, will this produce a sex linked chick? or no?

i have seen some conflicting sex link info and i'm wondering what the deal is since i don't 'get' the whole genetics thing yet.

 

[Henk69]

dominant white is dominant, but only makes black feather(part)s white.
recessive white is recessive, and inhibits all color.
Silver is sexlinked and (incomplete) dominant and replaces all groundcolor = the not black featherparts, except the salmon breast if present.

White shanks is a sexlinked trait. RIR have yellow shanks but also have that gene (Id).

 

[City Chicken]

dominant white is dominant, but only makes black feather(part)s white.
recessive white is recessive, and inhibits all color.
Silver is sexlinked and (incomplete) dominant and replaces all groundcolor = the not black featherparts, except the salmon breast if present.

White shanks is a sexlinked trait. RIR have yellow shanks but also have that gene (Id).

sooo. you are saying that the chicks COULD be determined by the shank color... but not necessarily 100%?

 

[Henk69]

sooo. you are saying that the chicks COULD be determined by the shank color... but not necessarily 100%?

Shank color may take a few weeks to show though...

 

[City Chicken]

ok... and yellow would be male? and white female?

 

[Henk69]

ok... and yellow would be male? and white female?

No, yellow is recessive. Just realized that light sussex have white legs? Then it doesn't help.

 

[Chris09]

No, yellow is recessive. Just realized that light sussex have white legs? Then it doesn't help.

I was starting to wonder. LOL
All chicks should have White legs, Correct?

Chris

 

[City Chicken]

hm, so no sex linking in this pair then?

 

[Henk69]

I was starting to wonder. LOL
All chicks should have White legs, Correct?

Chris

Chicks can have melanized legs (eg black or birchen), but I have had white legged chickens starting out yellowlegged. I am no expert on chick shanks ...
But in this cross all older chicks should get white legs.