Red Sexlink Rooster question

[reeder75]

I have bred my red Sexlink rooster to a variety of hens some red Sexlink crosses and hatched some chicks. Just wondering if the Sexlink still comes through for sexing as chicks? Hopefully not, all yellow!! Thanks!

 

[Habibs Hens]

I have bred my red Sexlink rooster to a variety of hens some red Sexlink crosses and hatched some chicks. Just wondering if the Sexlink still comes through for sexing as chicks? Hopefully not, all yellow!! Thanks!

sexlink and autosexing is different

you cant breed sexlink to anything to get sex link be it sexlink to sexlink or sexlink to pure or pure to sexlink

sexlink is simple once you understand it

the red and silver gene I what is used giving silver to males and red to females

its autosexing that sex can be repeatedly determined as long as same breed is mated to same breed

 

[reeder75]

Sorry but do you mean that the sexing gene is within the family? If you breed a pure red Sexlink to a pure red Sexlink you can't sex by colour? How the hatcherys do it? Sorry just confused! I'm sure it's simple!! Thank you!

 

[reeder75]

Sorry but do you mean that the sexing gene is within the family? If you breed a pure red Sexlink to a pure red Sexlink you can't sex by colour? How the hatcherys do it? Sorry just confused! I'm sure it's simple!! Thank you!

 

[LBKS]

Sexlinks are crosses of two birds with specific gene combinations so that all the male offspring will be one color down and all the female offspring will have another color. So sexlinks are basically hybrids -- they don't breed true. The hatcheries keep the two parent types and take the crossed eggs to hatch out. The parents are not sexlinked chickens, they just cross to produce them.

 

[Blue]

If you want to make your own sexlinks, one way to do it is to breed a solid based rooster (except white) to barred hens. All the male offspring will have a white spot on their heads when they hatch, but the female chicks won't have this spot. I think you can get red typed sexlinks by breeding a white rooster (as long as he is definitely carrying the silver gene) to red hens (RIRs or similar); all the male chicks will hatch yellow, and the female chicks will have the red. Breeding sexlinks with other sexlinks will not produce sexlinked chicks because sexlinks are made by crossing 2 different breeds together (sexlinks themselves aren't a breed but a cross/hybrid as the previous post detailed). Someone else mentioned auto-sexing chickens; these are breeds of birds that do breed true and always produce chicks that can be sexed at birth ( Rhodebars and legbars are the only auto-sexing breeds I can think of at the moment, but there are probably others).

 

[reeder75]

Thanks it makes sense to me now! Thank you all again!!