Rhode Island red hen crosses

[rooster131]

what sex link crosses if any, can a R.I. hen produce? got several R I hens and was wanting to try some to try to produce faster egg production.
Also can anyone tell me the best crosses to get the red and black sex links,the golden comets and the ISA browns? any help very much appreciated. thanks

 

[donrae]

A red hen can't make a sex-link cross, sorry.

A red roo over a barred rock hen will make black sex-links and a red roo over a silver hen will make red/gold sex-links.

Basically, most roos over a barred/cuckoo hen will make black sex-links.

This is very basic sex-link info, there can be a lot more to it! Search around here, there are some good threads on sex-link crosses different folks have made.

 

[Chris09]

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If she is a pure Rhode Island Red then you can cross here with a fast feathering rooster (Leghorn, Minorca, Andalusian, Ancona, Catalana, or Campine) and create a Sex-link.

tadkerson :

There is a way of using another sex-linked trait to sex chicks based upon the size of the primary and secondary feathers on the wing of a newly hatched chick.
Feather sexing chicks can be accomplished by crossing males that are homozygous for rapid feather growth or carry two rapid feather growth alleles ( k+/k+) with females that are hemizygous or carry only one slow feather growth allele ( K/_W).
The female parent contributes a dominant gene for slow feather growth (K) to all the male offspring while the female offspring will inherit only one rapid feather growth allele ( k+) from the father. This cross produces males that have slow feather growth (K/k+) and females that have rapid feather growth (k+/_W). https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261208

Chris​