red sex link crosses?

[buttercup95]

Oh and was it a buff rooster over a barred rock hen or vice versa?

 

[Joshua G]

I am not sure, i will have to ask my friend who gave it to me.

 

[Joshua G]

Here is my buff orp/ barred rock chicken.

 

[buttercup95]

Oh wow that is really pretty. It looks like a buttercup hen, but huge.

 

[Bill Matthews]

TO Buttercup95........I've seen many second generation Red Sex Links and these look nothing like any I have seen....The dark/willow legs indicate that some other breed than the standard ones used for sex linkage are involved.....I'm guessing Old English Game male parent from the legs and the body type....These do not have the normal American dual purpose body types associated with the breeds used to produce Red Sex Links......

 

[Paulo]

What would i get from crossing red sex link hens with a mutt (i mean REALLY mutt) roo? Would they be good layers?

 

[donrae]

What would i get from crossing red sex link hens with a mutt (i mean REALLY mutt) roo? Would they be good layers?

Probably. Not as good as the hens, but it would really depend on how good the genes are on the father's side. Both sides contribute equally to egg production.

 

[WalkingOnSunshine]

I'm sure you do realize that you would need to use different hens as well and not these...you need to start with a purebred red based rooster over a purebred silver based female (like the RIR over a White Rock/Leghorn).

Even if you got the right kind of rooster, the 2nd generation sex link hens would not breed true and you could not get sexlinks...nice mutts, but not sexlinks....anyway that's my understanding.

Lady of McCamley

Don't use a white Leghorn. When making sex links you're actually looking for a "silver factor" bird, and a white Leghorn is "dominant white." That white will cover up any other color genes the chick has and all birds from the mating will be white, possibly with some red or black leakage here or there.

 

[Paulo]

Living in rural Jamaica, i don't have access to any of the breeds you mention. All i can put my hands on are bovan brown hens, and what is locally called "common fowl", i.e. mutts. I am planning to cross the bovan browns with a common/mutt rooster, knowing they don''t breed true. Then keep some of the male offspring and crossing it with more bovans, and working my way up that way. Any comments, anyone?

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Don't use a white Leghorn. When making sex links you're actually looking for a "silver factor" bird, and a white Leghorn is "dominant white." That white will cover up any other color genes the chick has and all birds from the mating will be white, possibly with some red or black leakage here or there.

Thank you for correcting that...yes, indeed, Leghorn is dominant white (I knew that!)
Lady of McCamley