Sex- linked Information

[19CBG80]

Got all that. I'm not stupid or ignorant of the genetics. But, Barring (other than autosomal barring, which seems unlikely in this case) is a sex linked trait idependent of Silver/Gold (S,s+) For the female, it has to come from the father. My question,which I ask for my own edification, is adressed to 19CBG80.

Here are some pictures of the last chicks I set I know they are still to young to tell.

But here is a picture of what I would call barred chicken that was hatched on Christmas Day by the same roo and hens. He looked identical to the other chicks when he was hatched.

 

[19CBG80]

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Here is a picture of the hen and roo

 

[19CBG80]

And the roo ,thought I had this pic in the last post. I work on a/c and heating for a living not breed chickens. when I purchased the two breeds I thought i would produce a golden sex link chicken. I was hoping to raise my own hens for eggs and Roos for meat. Didn't really want to give it this much thought. Other wise I would have saved the time, money,effort and just purchased my laying hens. And in my defense I found this thread after I bought my chickens.

 

[Ebove06]

I have both a golden laced polish rooster and a Delaware hen, will those two crossed make a red sex link?

Anybody else???

 

[englishcockers]

And the roo ,thought I had this pic in the last post. I work on a/c and heating for a living not breed chickens. when I purchased the two breeds I thought i would produce a golden sex link chicken. I was hoping to raise my own hens for eggs and Roos for meat. Didn't really want to give it this much thought. Other wise I would have saved the time, money,effort and just purchased my laying hens. And in my defense I found this thread after I bought my chickens.

We are all always learning. Sorry you didn't get the color you wanted. You might have black sex links though, which is uncertain with White PRs unless you luck into the right genes. I appreciate the pics. It will be interesting to see the little ones feather out.

 

[tommysgirl]

And the roo ,thought I had this pic in the last post. I work on a/c and heating for a living not breed chickens. when I purchased the two breeds I thought i would produce a golden sex link chicken. I was hoping to raise my own hens for eggs and Roos for meat. Didn't really want to give it this much thought. Other wise I would have saved the time, money,effort and just purchased my laying hens. And in my defense I found this thread after I bought my chickens.

The genetics thing is not something I am up on buy this is totally confusing to me unless they are all cockerels which would be not impossible but weird to say the least. Since they hatched on Christmas you should be seeing wattles by now in the boys and since they are straight combed they should be getting prominent pink ones. If you would like to switch out your girls for ones that would give you a SL I highly recommend Delawares and Dorkings. I use both of those breeds with my NH rooster and the chicks grow into tasty meat birds snf prolific layers of large to xl eggs. Cockerel chicks are yellow and pullets are red. The Dorking xs have a chipmunk stripe but the Delawares are solid.

 

[jerryse]

I think they may be black sex links . I see white head spots . Some very small . Those are cockerels . Your whites are likely Barred rock with 2 copies of recessive white . So the white does not show with 1 copy . This result is the same as if you used barred hens . The black is strong and dominates the gold . Not completely as adults . At this point they are all single barred so there will be no lighter color on cockerels . So now you wait for combs to develop .
Here are some pictures of the last chicks I set I know they are still to young to tell.
But here is a picture of what I would call barred chicken that was hatched on Christmas Day by the same roo and hens. He looked identical to the other chicks when he was hatched.

 

[donrae]

I purchased 5 New Hampshire red roosters and 10 white Plymouth Rock hens. Because of predators I'm down to 1 roo and 8 hens. I'm trying to produce golden sex links. But when the chicks hatched they were all barred. Does any one have any suggestion to wether the problem is with the genes of the roo or the wrong breed hen? I Waited over 6 months for the hens to start laying only to find they don't produce that golden color I was hopping for.

the very first post by Tim states White Rock hens are a poor choice for sex linkage as they often have the incorrect genetic makeup for red sex links. Now, with the barring, I'd say your hens have dominant white hiding barring, so you should be able to sex them on the black(barring) sex link rules pretty reliably. Your barred birds are male, your solid dark birds are female. There's nothing in your male that shows he's barred, barring pretty much always expresses itself if it's present, the only thing that hides it is dominant white.

 

[jerryse]

the very first post by Tim states White Rock hens are a poor choice for sex linkage as they often have the incorrect genetic makeup for red sex links. Now, with the barring, I'd say your hens have dominant white hiding barring, so you should be able to sex them on the black(barring) sex link rules pretty reliably. Your barred birds are male, your solid dark birds are female. There's nothing in your male that shows he's barred, barring pretty much always expresses itself if it's present, the only thing that hides it is dominant white.

Since none of the chicks pictured were white the hens must be recessive white . I know most commercial white breeds are dominant white but these are not . Based on the outcome . I agree with the rest of the information .
This hen has 1 copy of dominant white .

 

[Kev]

psst donrae- it's recessive white not dominant white in this case.

And the roo ,thought I had this pic in the last post. I work on a/c and heating for a living not breed chickens. when I purchased the two breeds I thought i would produce a golden sex link chicken. I was hoping to raise my own hens for eggs and Roos for meat. Didn't really want to give it this much thought. Other wise I would have saved the time, money,effort and just purchased my laying hens. And in my defense I found this thread after I bought my chickens.

We all make mistakes and hopefully learn from them.

Your white birds as evidenced by the chicks, are genetically black and at least one is also barred. If there's a 100% rate for all chicks with the white head spot and growing bars on feathers turning out to be males, then all the white hens are black barreds.... the female chicks would be the ones without the white head spot(I see several of those) so you still get your sex linked result, just not the color you wanted.

The usual reason for using black plus barring "under" white birds is because black tends to give a cleaner white color and barring helps clear the legs of any pigment- helps make for cleaner yellow or white legs with no 'blemish'.

So, while it's impossible to guess what genes a white bird is covering up by looking at it.. I do tend to guessimate a white bird most likely is black, with barring if the bird has clean white or yellow legs. No barring if the bird has blue/green legs.