Sex- linked Information

[BreedFarm]

Probably this is an easy answer for some of you, but I do not know.

Can I get red sex links from crossing a Ameraucana/Buff Orpington Rooster (He is all Red) with a Barred Rock Hen, or Cuckoo Maran Hen?

If so, does anyone know what egg color I would get? Would it be mostly brown egg layers with the occasional green egg layer?

Thanks

 

[farmhand]

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Quote: I believe I am adding to the confusion with my questioning because I'm not clear what my goals are myself. Originally I thought it fun to cross CA Gray with Ark Blue because I am so impressed with CA Gray egg production and I like the Ark Blue blue eggs. Second I realized they could be sex-linked. Third I begun thinking about making a barred blue egg layer. But right now I trying to learn by asking. Thanks for helping

 

[Ridgerunner]

If you have males and females of the blues and the greys you can get there either way. I don’t know that one way is that much better than the other. In either case the offspring will be split for the blue egg gene. The males will be split for barring. So you can take you best male of the offspring and mate if back to the hens. If you mate him to a blue hen, in the F2 generation half the offspring will be barred, male and female. Half the pullets will be pure for the blue egg gene and half will be split for the blue egg gene.

If you mate that F1 cockerel to a grey, half the pullets will be barred, half the cockerels will be pure for barring and half the cockerels will be split for barring. Half the pullets will lay white eggs and half will lay blue, but they will be split for the blue egg gene.

From the F2 generation and forever afterwards, only hatch blue eggs. Without doing test hatching you can’t tell if a hen is pure for blue or is split since it is a dominant gene. But by only hatching blue eggs, you strengthen that blue egg gene.

Always keep only barred pullets F2 and beyond. The barred gene is also dominant, but two copies of barring normally gives you a lighter cockerel than one with split barring. So keep your lighter colored cockerels to breed. You should be able to get to pure barred birds pretty quickly. The blue egg gene is harder to get pure.

 

[farmhand]

Thanks and now I understand why the males have lighter barring being they carry two barred genes.

 

[Ebove06]

If I cross a black copper maran with a silver laced Wyandotte, would I get a sex link?

 

[englishcockers]

If I fed the right info into the chicken calculator ... It says the chicks would just be black
at least, they would grow up to be black
I am guessing BCM's are homozygous for E^R (birchen/crowing) but are otherwise wildtype.
I suppose the E^R + the Ml from the Wyandotte just overwhelms the groundcolor
I wonder if you would see a bit of difference on the chest or face of newly hatched chicks
I wouldn't bet on it though

 

[Ebove06]

If I fed the right info into the chicken calculator ... It says the chicks would just be black
at least, they would grow up to be black
I am guessing BCM's are homozygous for  E^R (birchen/crowing) but are otherwise wildtype.
I suppose the E^R + the Ml from the Wyandotte just overwhelms the groundcolor
I wonder if you would see a bit of difference on the chest or face of newly hatched chicks
I wouldn't bet on it though

Okay, thank you very much. Will a black copper Maran crossed with any breed make a sex link?

 

[englishcockers]

Over barred hens, He would make black sexlinks:
Barred roosters and Black hens. Rooster chicks should have the white head spot, I would think

 

[Ebove06]

Over barred hens, He would make black sexlinks:
Barred roosters and Black hens. Rooster chicks should have the white head spot, I would think

Barred rocks look like cuckoo marans, right? Cause I only have cuckoo marans.

 

[Ebove06]

Barred rocks look like cuckoo marans, right? Cause I only have cuckoo marans.

I said that wrong, I meant to say that I don't have any barred rocks.