Sex Link Chicks - leg color sexing?!?

[Chickadee1982]

I have 5 chicks that came from a jubilee orp hen and a light brahma rooster. Both boys have yellow legs like daddy, three girls have flesh colored legs like mama? Possible?

 

[JedJackson]

No, leg color isn't sex linked. If it worked out that way it is just coincidence. If you need these sexed, get pictures that show bodies and combs, and let us know their age. The boys will have bigger, redder combs and wattles, so it may be obvious.

 

[Chickadee1982]

No, leg color isn't sex linked. If it worked out that way it is just coincidence. If you need these sexed, get pictures that show bodies and combs, and let us know their age. The boys will have bigger, redder combs and wattles, so it may be obvious.

But that's the thing... three are girls, and two are boys. The three girls have mommas leg coloring and the two boys have daddy's leg color. I hatched another Jubilee orp/ light Brahma egg 2 weeks ago, if that one turns out to be a girl as well? I may be lucky. lol

 

[JedJackson]

But that's the thing... three are girls, and two are boys. The three girls have mommas leg coloring and the two boys have daddy's leg color. I hatched another Jubilee orp/ light Brahma egg 2 weeks ago, if that one turns out to be a girl as well? I may be lucky. lol

Huh. As far as I know leg color isn't sex linked, but I am not 100% positive of that. The genetics forum might be a good place to ask.

 

[Chickadee1982]

This is too exciting. I will ask there
Wouldn't that be awesome, if sex link worked with leg color???

 

[JedJackson]

This is too exciting. I will ask there
Wouldn't that be awesome, if sex link worked with leg color???

I would be cool, but I don't think it does. It'll be nice to know, either way.

 

[drumstick diva]

I doubt that it would ever be that easy

 

[Lady of McCamley]

It is argued.

Traditional thinking believed that shank color was fairly simplistic, but further study has shown it is more complicated (and my own flock with annoying recurrence of dark melanin on yellow legs on my Barnevelder project proves it to me).

However, it is thought that Yellow has a dark melanin inhibitor so that Yellow shank bred over Blue/Dark shank will produce sex links.

However you have Yellow over Beige...although I am also seeing quite a bit of melanin in those legs of your pullets.

So it is possible you stumbled onto a shank linkage....but remember the genetics are debated and more complicated...probably 3 genes covering shank color with only 1 sex linked.

I'll link articles below of the genetics.

LofMc

https://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC1208630&blobtype=pdf
http://articles.extension.org/pages...or-small-and-backyard-flocks:-an-introduction
https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/gms10-skin-and-shank-color/

 

[JedJackson]

It is argued.

Traditional thinking believed that shank color was fairly simplistic, but further study has shown it is more complicated (and my own flock with annoying recurrence of dark melanin on yellow legs on my Barnevelder project proves it to me).

However, it is thought that Yellow has a dark melanin inhibitor so that Yellow shank bred over Blue/Dark shank will produce sex links.

However you have Yellow over Beige...although I am also seeing quite a bit of melanin in those legs of your pullets.

So it is possible you stumbled onto a shank linkage....but remember the genetics are debated and more complicated...probably 3 genes covering shank color with only 1 sex linked.

I'll link articles below of the genetics.

LofMc

https://europepmc.org/backend/ptpmcrender.fcgi?accid=PMC1208630&blobtype=pdf
http://articles.extension.org/pages...or-small-and-backyard-flocks:-an-introduction
https://scratchcradle.wordpress.com/2012/09/02/gms10-skin-and-shank-color/

Interesting!

 

[Chickadee1982]

And here i thought i was lucky to have bred sex link chicks. lol
The flesh color legged girls have flesh colored and black colored nails, which is weird. Nor hen or the rooster have that trait.