Sex- linked Information

[Kev]

Thank you so very much! I might just have to give it a try and see how they hatch out.

That's the right attitude! Listen but test it out for yourself.... What I did for many years. It is also the best way to understand genetics and make it all 'stick'.

 

[jerryse]

That's the right attitude! Listen but test it out for yourself.... What I did for many years. It is also the best way to understand genetics and make it all 'stick'.

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[cmom]

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[cornishannie]

Indian game male with light sussex female?

 

[donrae]

Indian game male with light sussex female?

If by Indian game you mean Dark Cornish, then yes the offspring will be sex linked. The chart on the first page, along with Tim's post, is invaluable.

 

[cornishannie]

Thank you! Yes he's a dark one. I'll take a look now

 

[lazy gardener]

Any thoughts about leg color being a possible indicator of gender? I have some EE x Pioneer chicks. The Pioneer mother has light green legs. All the Pioneer males (long since gone to freezer camp) of that batch had bright yellow legs. Some of the EE x Pioneer chicks have yellow legs, a few have the light green legs.

Also, I'm having a hard time sorting out the sex linked female chicks from EE x SLW. The males are easy, as they bear the silver laced pattern. I think the females are showing a "wild type of feather pattern". These chicks were brown, and had a bit of the funky swirly cheek coloring peculiar to SLW chicks. But, I'm not sure as there were also some other breeds of hens thrown into the mix. I do know that this roo produced nice BSL with the Dominique hens.

I'm loving the chicks produced by this roo, and my mix of hens. I just wish it was easy to distinguish the females from the SLW cross.

BTW, roo is pictured in my avatar.

 

[donrae]

Hey LG

The only sex linked leg color I recall seeing was a year or so ago from Marvin (niclandia). He'd posted about putting a silkie rooster over a white leghorn hen, and the males had yellow shanks while the females had black. Seems like someone revived the thread not too long ago with a post or two, so you might try doing a search. Marvin gave a very detailed explanation--beyond my basic genetic understanding--but it might answer your question.

 

[jerryse]

Slate legs are sex linked . So yes if the rooster has slate or green legs the pullets will have them also and cockerels no . Green legs are a layer of slate skin and a layer of yellow skin . I just read your post again . The hens having green legs will make this unreliable .

 

[kathleens1979]

So Jerry, with my Icelandics, if I crossed a slate or green shanked rooster with a yellow shanked hen, all the resulting pullets would have green legs and all the cockerels would have yellow legs? Is that correct?