Sex link?

[Chuckkeeper]

Hi

If I house a cuckoo maran hen in my Silkie pen (which has one red roo and one white roo) or in my Jubilee Orp pen (with a jubilee orp roo) would the chicks sex link or would the white Silkie boy ruin this?

Thanks

 

[The Moonshiner]

Most likely not. Silkie white is most often recessive White so it takes a gene from each parent to be expressed.
The exception is whites from paint silkie breeding or projects. The paint pattern needs dominant White so that gene has been breed into some silkies.

 

[Chuckkeeper]

Most likely not. Silkie white is most often recessive White so it takes a gene from each parent to be expressed.
The exception is whites from paint silkie breeding or projects. The paint pattern needs dominant White so that gene has been breed into some silkies.

Thanks. So assuming the white Silkie boy is recessive, the cuckoo's eggs would hatch for sex link? The same would also be true if she was housed with the jubilee Orps. The genetics calculator seems to suggest that having a red or black male would be preferable.

 

[NatJ]

So assuming the white Silkie boy is recessive, the cuckoo's eggs would hatch for sex link? The same would also be true if she was housed with the jubilee Orps.

That sounds right to me

The genetics calculator seems to suggest that having a red or black male would be preferable.

If you want to tell the sex the chicks by color, you need to be able to see the yellow dot on the head at hatch, or the white barring on the feathers as they grow. A dark-colored chick makes that much easier than a light-colored chick.

With the mother being black (with barring), the chicks should also show plenty of black, unless the father contributes something like Dominant White or Blue (genes that remove or lighten the black.)

 

[Chuckkeeper]

That sounds right to me


If you want to tell the sex the chicks by color, you need to be able to see the yellow dot on the head at hatch, or the white barring on the feathers as they grow. A dark-colored chick makes that much easier than a light-colored chick.

With the mother being black (with barring), the chicks should also show plenty of black, unless the father contributes something like Dominant White or Blue (genes that remove or lighten the black.)

Got it. Thanks so much.