Seabright breeding question

[ConchRepublic]

What color would you get from breeding a gold seabright and a silver seabright together?

I've tried to find pictures of what they look like but no luck.

 

[icrowther4iam]

Years back, there was a time when seabrights were getting very inbred and difficult to breed. I don't know if this problem still exists. So breeders used this technique to outcross. I don't exactly recall the results of the cross, but I believe the goldens you will get will be "washed out" in color.

 

[ConchRepublic]

I delved a little deeper and searched more and found the answer

If you cross a Gold Seabright male with a Silver Seabright female, you get the Gold X Silver sex linked results of Gold Pullets and Silver males, with the males showing brass in their necks.

If you cross a Silver male with a Gold female, all the progeny will be silver, the pullets will appear pure, but the males, as in the first cross, will show gold leakage.

 

[RAREROO]

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That is correct, the males should look about the same in both crosses, but the females from the GL male X SL hen would be pure GL and the females from the SL male X GL hen would be pure SL

 

[Year of the Rooster]

You beat me to it Rareroo

 

[ConchRepublic]

lol now for me to wait to see if my 2 chicks end up being a pair then.

 

[Year of the Rooster]

How old are they? I could give a crack at sexing them for ya

 

[ConchRepublic]

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They're about 3 weeks. They're hatchery birds too. The wife wanted one and we grabbed them by accident out of a TSC assorted bantam bin. They ended up being my favorite chicks and she don't want them to much anymore lol.

Got the pictures here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3838155#p3838155

 

[Year of the Rooster]

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They're about 3 weeks. They're hatchery birds too. The wife wanted one and we grabbed them by accident out of a TSC assorted bantam bin. They ended up being my favorite chicks and she don't want them to much anymore lol.

Got the pictures here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3838155#p3838155

If I had to make a guess I would say the Golden is a rooster and the Silver a pullet. But like the other person said, wait another week or two, then you'll know for sure.

 

[ConchRepublic]

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They're about 3 weeks. They're hatchery birds too. The wife wanted one and we grabbed them by accident out of a TSC assorted bantam bin. They ended up being my favorite chicks and she don't want them to much anymore lol.

Got the pictures here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3838155#p3838155

If I had to make a guess I would say the Golden is a rooster and the Silver a pullet. But like the other person said, wait another week or two, then you'll know for sure.

That's what I'm hoping for lol, thanks . I kinda guessed they wouldn't be sexable for awhile.