Sex linked chicks Help please

[greathorse]

I have a group of nice RIR hatchery stock females and a few hatchery stock Cuckoo Marans. I have one rooster of each of those as well.
If I put MY RIR rooster over the marans hens and the Marans rooster over the RIR hens will my chicks be sex linked? Will I be able to sex them at birth? I confess to knowing little or nothing about coloring in chickens. I would like to hatch and sell some this spring and think I would have a better shot if I could sex my chicks. A couple of the towns around here have just allowed chickens but no roosters.

Any help would be apprectiated. thanks

 

[Mahonri]

The RIR roo over the Cuckoo hens should give you sex links.

I don't believe the opposite is true. (CM roo over RIR hens)

 

[greathorse]

Is the Cuckoo barring just like a Barred rock or is it different I really dont know

 

[Byrdj]

No, the barred rock barring is a cleaner barring than cuckoo. (Cleaner seperation between the black and whie colors.)

 

[blackdotte]

Cuckoo Marans cock over RIR hens will give sexable chicks, at birth cockerels will have a white head spot, pullets will be black.
Other way around will not work, all chicks will have a head spot and will feather out cuckoo/barred.
Cuckoo & barred are caused by the same gene, barred. Cuckoo is on birds that have faster feather growth, batted on slow feather growth.
David

 

[ella]

Red male with barred (or cuckoo) female will give you sex linked chicks.

http://www.cacklehatchery.com/blacksexlinkpage.html

Barred male over any female will give all barred chicks, both male and female.

 

[mikarod]

Yes, RIR over Barred bird (cuckoo, barred rock, dominique, etc.) will give you sex-links.

Males will have a spot, females will not.