Red Barred roo over dominique hens what results would I get.

[Krys109uk]

Most of it wasn't even in english.

Oh dear.....

The language at the top is Dutch if you look just below there you will see that there is a complete English version.

 

[jjdward]

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If I'm not mistaken that site had something about genetics too. I really wished i could find it.

If you find it let me know

I'd be interested in reading it.

It took me a while but I found the link I was talking about. http://www.dominiquechicken.com/Dominiques_and_Barred_Rocks.html

 

[aerosmith_99]

I am not sure what you would get. To get a black sexlink would be a rhode island red rooster to barred rock hen. To get a red sexlink you cross a white leghorn rooster to rhode island red hen. The benefit is you can tell what sex the babies would be from birth.

 

[Year of the Rooster]

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Leghorns aren't used for Sex-link crosses. They are either White Rocks, Rhode Island Whites, or Delaware hens crossed with a RIR rooster.

 

[aerosmith_99]

Sex-Links are chickens which can be sexed at hatching, usually by color but sometimes by feather development. They are planned crosses, which are hardier and more productive than their parents' respective breeds. (Ed. note: Be aware that these are breed hybrids and will not breed true.)

(Ed. note: If you came to this page by some name that is not mentioned herein, it's because I can't keep up with all the commercial names that sex-linked chickens are marketed under, but I try to link the names to this page when I come across them. It should also be noted that the California White is a white egg laying Sex-link.)

Both Red and Black Sex-Links use a red male for the father. Either a Rhode Island Red or a New Hampshire may be used.

Black Sex-Links are produced using a Barred Rock as the mother. Both sexes hatch out black, but the males have a white dot on their heads. Pullets feather out black with some red in neck feathers. Males feather out with the Barred Rock pattern along with a few red feathers. Black Sex-Links are often referred to as Rock Reds.

Red Sex-Links are the result of various crosses. White Rocks with the silver factor (the dominant white gene would produce all white offspring) are crossed with a New Hampshire male to produce the Golden Comet. Silver Laced Wyandotte crossed with New Hampshire gives the Cinnamon Queen. Two other crosses are obtained with Rhode Island White x Rhode Island Red, and Delaware x Production Red. These two crosses are simply called Red Sex-Links. Males hatch out white and, depending on the cross, feather out to pure white or with some black feathering. Females hatch out buff or red also depending on cross, and they feather out in one of three ways.

Buff with white or tinted undercolor (such as Golden Comet, Rhode Island Red x Rhode Island White)
Red with White or tinted undercolor (Cinnamon Queen)
Red with Red undercolor (Delaware x Production Red) (In this color pattern it is almost impossible to distinguish daughters' color from father's color.)

 

[Year of the Rooster]

Uhh thanks for pointing out the obvious.... I already knew that and it doesn't prove that Leghorns are used in making Sex-links. California Whites aren't a Sex-link either as both male and females are the same color. What ever site you copied pasted that from was wrong..

 

[Chickanmanfromarkansas]

Rooster-Spur, Have you been able to create more of these chickens. They look very interesting to me. Just ccurious how it turned out.

 

[Rooster-Spur]

No I lost that rooster before I could hatch any chicks. I did not try to build that color from scratch. I am just now thinking about trying to recreate his color from scratch. Any advice on this apreciated. I am thinking of crossing a Rhode Island Red or Production Red rooster over Dominique hens then take the baby hens and breed to a red rooster.

 

[mikden]

Hi Krys, please pardon the intrusion in this thread but your quote gave me a question... The (Co) gene how would it effect something such as a cuckoo maran in respect to whether or not the allele? has Co/Co or possibly Co/Co+?. Would the columbian restrictor cause more crisp blurred barring on a cuckoo maran????? Sorry a very newbie here on genetics.

 

[Chris09]

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If you want, "crisp" Barring you will have to slow the rate of feather growth down.
The slower the feather growth is the cleaner more crisp the Barring will be.

Chris