Sex-Linked Brahmas?

[Wild Child]

Hello everybody! I just got 5 partridge brahmas! They are 1 month olds and there is 1 cockerel and 4 hens. I already have some light brahma hens that I will hatch eggs out of from this rooster sometime down the line. I read somewhere that if you cross a dark brahma rooster to light brahma hens yhe chicks will be sex linked. Does this work? And if so, does it apply to partridge brahmas? Any advice would be greatly appreciated

 

[Wild Child]

Anybody?

 

[junebuggena]

Try posting over on this thread.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information/1630#post_15378596

 

[Hatching]

Well as adults(light hen x partridge rooster) the males will have a light yellow color than your partridge because they will be Ss. The females will be partridge colored S- . I don't know if the colors will be so distinguishable as chicks, but as adults the males will be yellow/gold partridge and the females will be normal partridge colored.

 

[big medicine]

Hello everybody! I just got 5 partridge brahmas! They are 1 month olds and there is 1 cockerel and 4 hens. I already have some light brahma hens that I will hatch eggs out of from this rooster sometime down the line. I read somewhere that if you cross a dark brahma rooster to light brahma hens yhe chicks will be sex linked. Does this work? And if so, does it apply to partridge brahmas? Any advice would be greatly appreciated

A dark male over a light hen will not produce sex linked chicks as both are silver based.

As Patch stated a partridge male (gold based) over a light hen (silver based) will produce gold pullets and split gold/silver cockerels. The cockerel will more strongly resemble a silver with brassy straw coloring coming into hackle and saddle feathers as it matures.

Now as to pattern, it has been my experience that crossing a patterned bird like penciled (dark, partridge), or laced, with a columbian (light), the resulting chicks will more strongly resemble
the columbian pattern with some extra markings from the patterned parent.

As Patch stated, from this cross the red chicks will be pullets, the cockerels will be yellow. But these yellow male chicks will be indistinguishable from any chicks from your light hens, until they get older.

 

[Blackberry18]

Hello everybody! I just got 5 partridge brahmas! They are 1 month olds and there is 1 cockerel and 4 hens. I already have some light brahma hens that I will hatch eggs out of from this rooster sometime down the line. I read somewhere that if you cross a dark brahma rooster to light brahma hens yhe chicks will be sex linked. Does this work? And if so, does it apply to partridge brahmas? Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Sorry I'm a bit late, but I agree with the above post. Also, a Buff Brahma cockerel x a Dark or Light Brahma hen will produce Red Sex-Linked Brahmas.