Sex- linked Information

[phasianidae]

tadkerson wrote: A person can not produce sex linked offspring if they cross a male sex linked variety with any variety of female. What about a Red Sexlink male with a Barred Rock hen?

 

[RAREROO]

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Yes that should work, especically a Red Sexlink male where Dom White is not involved like from useing, Silver-> Columbian, Laced, Penciled, Duckwing hens. ETA Delaware hens could not be used either becuase of the barring, see explaination below.

 

[Cowgirl71]

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Tadkerson said in his info for making Black Sex-Links: "4) Neither of the birds can carry dominant white or in other words be a white bird. Some recessive white birds may work on the male side of the cross but you never know if it will work or not work. So I suggest not using white birds."

A hatchery-bred Red Sexlink roo is just that, a white bird carrying dominant white.

I looked into doing this cross a while back too... Oh well.

 

[Cowgirl71]

RAREROO, you posted right before I did, LOL...

Basically Minnesotachickenbreeder (please correct me if I'm wrong on this RAREROO), a Red Sexlink male can be used in a Black Sexlink cross IF he doesn't carry dominant white. You can tell this by the apearance of the roo's sisters. If they're the classic Red Sexlink that hatcheries sell (red with a white undercolor), then you know he carries dominant white and cannot be used in a Black Sexlink cross. However if the roo's sisters are colored like a RIR (red columbian), then he doesn't carry dominant white and can be used to make Black Sexlinks. Makes sense?

 

[RAREROO]

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Yep, Thats right, also you should be able to tell by the roo himself, Dom White covers black so if the roo isnt showing any black, then he would be carrying Dom White and shouldnt be used. But if he is showing black and has a similar to a Light Sussex roo, then he he would work.

But one thing I just caught that I said earlier about a Delaware hen being used. A red sexlink male from using a Delaware hen couldnt be used either. Since Delawares are Barred Columbian, and breeding them to a RIR roo to make sexlinks has sexlinkage from both silver/gold and barring coming into play. These pullets are gold ( from the Red sexlinkage part) and have solid black, non barred, columbian markings ( from the black sexlinkage part), the roosters of this cross would be split for silver and gold ( from the Red sexlinkage part) and have barred columbian markings ( from the black sexlinkage part)

So since these roos carry barring, they couldnt be used in a sexlink cross either so that for the most part, eliminates the possibility for hatchery bred sexlink males to be used. But a home bred Red Sexlink male using Silver Columbian, Silver laced, Silver Penciled, Silver Duckwing, ect.... hens would work.

 

[Cowgirl71]

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Great info!

 

[Henk69]

2 questions:

Why has this topic gone off sticky?

Is there any way to clean the topic up?

 

[chickenlittle2]

I AGREE!
Tim's document should be a sticky and cleaned up leaving ONLY the questions that he immediately responded to after the document was created and additions he made to the document. It is like going to an article in an encyclopedia. It should be permanent and left alone. There use to be a sexlink post that people kept adding to with questions and answers. That should not be included in Tim's document. He spent a lot of time making this and I think he and the article should be respected. The same with other documents on types of combs, etc. that we see from time to time These are good reference sources and can be referred to when posters ask questions. Any of these referenced articles can then be referred to and discussed in later posts. I had noticed the article was starting to get cluttered with many repetitive questions and wondered why this was being allowed since all they had to do is read what Tim wrote and the answer was already there.
Someone just asked a question on feather sexing in the incubation forum and I was going to refer him to Tim's article and couldn't find it. Then I saw the sticky was removed and it is down among the other articles. I don't think we shold go overboard on stickies because then they lose their value but if I may make a suggestion that the moderator in each forum make a thoughtful decision to keep some articles as stickies so that they are quasi permanent and can be referred to by the other posters. Usually these articles or posts are written by our more experienced posters and we should take full advantage of the time and effort they are willing to give us.
Jim

 

[hinkjc]

This thread has been added to the "notable reference" sticky at the top of the section. https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=269287

 

[phasianidae]

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Tadkerson said in his info for making Black Sex-Links: "4) Neither of the birds can carry dominant white or in other words be a white bird. Some recessive white birds may work on the male side of the cross but you never know if it will work or not work. So I suggest not using white birds."

A hatchery-bred Red Sexlink roo is just that, a white bird carrying dominant white.

I looked into doing this cross a while back too... Oh well.

Sorry I should have made it more clear, I was thinking of a RSl rooster from a gold male and a silver columbian hen.