RIR X Light brahma

[littlegreywolf]

Ok, here are some pictures of my three Rhode Island Red x Light Brahma crosses from today (May 30th) at 12wks old. I'm positive they are pullets - albeit weird looking ones, probably due to the cross they are. They are dark gold/orange-ish with black tail feathers and black markings around their necks, like their mom who is a Light Brahma.

 

[Denny Fratesi]

These are rir hen breed with a brahma rooster. The only markings the day they were born is one had a black dot on its head and one had a few colored feathers. The rest were solid white and now are getting colors three days later.

 

[Eggs2chicks]

These are rir hen breed with a brahma rooster. The only markings the day they were born is one had a black dot on its head and one had a few colored feathers. The rest were solid white and now are getting colors three days later.

Is your Brahma a light Brahma rooster? I just had 3 chicks hatch yesterday and they are yellow and no markings but they all have hairy legs feathered legs. So probably came from rir hen. Not the black sex link hens Lol. Got a lot of questions to ask. May be a little whitish in other pics.

 

[Eggs2chicks]

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Is your Brahma a light Brahma rooster? I just had 3 chicks hatch yesterday and they are yellow and no markings but they all have hairy legs feathered legs. So probably came from rir hen. Not the black sex link hens Lol. Got a lot of questions to ask. May be a little whitish in other pics.

Yes my silver sebright went broody and hatched everyone else’s eggs. Lol.

 

[brandyekirby]

My first 2 chicks hatched yesterday (mother's day). They came from Rhode island red dad and light brahma (white with black) mom. One chick is yellow and the other is a brown or brown reddish color. I was told the yellow one would be male, and other chick female.
1-is this true?
2- any pics of what adults look like from this cross? What I can expect.

 

[brandyekirby]

My rir x light brahma hatched yesterday are 1 yellow and 1 brown reddish color. The father is the rir the mother is the light brahma (white with black).
So if I understand correctly, the lil yellow chick is male, the other is female?
Any pics what they will look like full grown?

 

[Homestead princess]

No pictures but it is almost true. This one is based on science, not just something you read on the internet. Read the very first post in this thread for the science.

Tadkerson’s Sex Link Thread
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261208

The reason it is almost true is that the black is wrong. A RIR rooster over a Light Brahma hen will produce a Red Sex Link. Males will show yellow and females will show red. Black has nothing to do with a Red Sex Link as far as determining sex. That red can be different shades of red too. Some crosses will give you a dark brown but some give you a fairly light reddish color, sort of a buff. It could be many different shades of red. Instead of saying dark brown/black in your statement, say reddish.

Some sex link crosses will produce solid yellow or red chicks but some will produce chicks that are only yellow or red in certain spots. It helps to have those chicks side by side to compare them. I have not done your specific cross but I’d expect the chicks from that cross to be pretty solid red or yellow and real easy to tell apart.

You can try browsing through that thread I gave you above for pictures of red sex link chicks. It’s a real long thread and I don’t know if anyone has photos of your specific cross or not. But if the rooster is a pure RIR and the hen is a pure Light Brahma, you have red sex link chicks.

What if the rooster is pure light brahma and the hen is pure RIR? Would that still create a red sex link? Sorry I was doing some research because I hatched something I'm unsure of and my only roo is a light Brahma. I have RIR hens and a drank brahma hen but I don't know which hen laid the eggs I put in the incubator

 

[Frizzle and Friends]

What if the rooster is pure light brahma and the hen is pure RIR? Would that still create a red sex link? Sorry I was doing some research because I hatched something I'm unsure of and my only roo is a light Brahma. I have RIR hens and a drank brahma hen but I don't know which hen laid the eggs I put in the incubator

Unfortunately, no. That cross would produce silver pullets and golden (silver/gold) cockerels. On hatch day, they would look pretty much the same. The mahogany may mess with the results, but I could only see it making it harder to tell the pullets apart.

The best way to remember how the sex-linked crosses is to think of red sexlinks. Flip the colors to find the genes needed for the parents.