Sex-Link Question: POSITIVE ANSWER NEEDED BY EXPERT

[Blackberry18]

All right, so I know most Sex-Links lay brown eggs. But, if one of the parents contains a white or blue egg gene, will the offspring lay a different color egg? So, do most Sex-Links lay brown eggs, and others lay blue or white?

 

[annaejohn]

Not sure.. But brown probably. Brown is usually dominant, and unless they are a pure white-laying, blue-laying breed, I'd say the sex- link will lay brown. All my golden sex-link hens laid gorgeous brown eggs, daily.

 

[keesmom]

Hatchery sex links will lay brown eggs, but that is what they are selected for. However you can create your own sex links that lay other colors.

Read the first post in this thread, if you haven't already.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information

For example you can create a black sex link green egg layer by crossing a black Ameraucana male with a barred Rock female. The same male over barred Holland females will give sex link blue egg layers.

 

[Michael OShay]

Hatchery sex links will lay brown eggs, but that is what they are selected for. However you can create your own sex links that lay other colors.

Read the first post in this thread, if you haven't already.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information

For example you can create a black sex link green egg layer by crossing a black Ameraucana male with a barred Rock female. The same male over barred Holland females will give sex link blue egg layers.

X2 on keesmom's post.