Red sex link hen, what rooster?

[BucksBoo]

I have a small variety of hens and roosters. Most are still chicks. I want to mate them when they are older. However, I don’t really understand the whole sex link thing. I have a red sex link hen and she is a great layer. I’d love to have more of them and sell them as well. I don’t know what rooster to mate her with though.

 

[Pyxis]

Unfortunately, you cannot use a sex link to make more sex links. They are an end cross; they don't work to make any more sex links.

For information on how to make sex links, I would recommend this thread

 

[BucksBoo]

Unfortunately, you cannot use a sex link to make more sex links. They are an end cross; they don't work to make any more sex links.

For information on how to make sex links, I would recommend this thread

Thank you

 

[nicalandia]

Unfortunately, you cannot use a sex link to make more sex links. They are an end cross; they don't work to make any more sex links.

For information on how to make sex links, I would recommend this thread

Technically these red link hens can be used to make sex links, but not the same red sex links of course

 

[Pyxis]

Technically these red link hens can be used to make sex links, but not the same red sex links of course

Oh cool, what cross would you do with them to make sex links?

 

[nicalandia]

Oh cool, what cross would you do with them to make sex links?

Crossed with a Fibromelanotic rooster(Cemani, Silkie) the cross will be sex linked, in this case the sexed linked gene will be id+ vs Id, id+(sex linked dermal enhancer/slate shanks) vs Id(clear yellow/white shanks) boosted by Fibromelanosis(Fm) will yield Black Skin/shank pullets and Clear shanked/Clear/White/Yellow skin cockerels

 

[Ms Clucky]

Red Cochin or Blue Silkie. May get a purple chick

 

[Pyxis]

Crossed with a Fibromelanotic rooster(Cemani, Silkie) the cross will be sex linked, in this case the sexed linked gene will be id+ vs Id, id+(sex linked dermal enhancer/slate shanks) vs Id(clear yellow/white shanks) boosted by Fibromelanosis(Fm) will yield Black Skin/shank pullets and Clear shanked/Clear/White/Yellow skin cockerels

Very interesting, does this work when crossing any fibro rooster with any non-fibro hen?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Use a (sex linked) chocolate rooster over them.

 

[nicalandia]

Very interesting, does this work when crossing any fibro rooster with any non-fibro hen?

Not just any non-fibro hen, but hens that clearly have yellow/white shanks! as that indicates the presence of sex linked dermal inhibitor Id.

basically any recessive sex linked gene that can be expressed at hatch can be used on these red sex linked hens.

For example the above mentioned Fibromelanotic roosters(due to id+ boosting Fm and Id inhibiting its expression), sex linked recessive chocolate(would result on chocolate pullets and black cockerels with gold/silver leakage), sex linked imperfect albinism(S^al, would result in imperfect/incomplete albino pullets and non-albino cockerels)