Sex- linked Information

[ronott1]

I'd thought hatcheries didn't use it because you have to cross breeds and they mostly sell purebred birds. Except My Pet chicken--don't get me started on their "Fun New Just Created Breeds"

cmom, I remember your puzzling bird post. Genetics just throw us for a loop sometime, don't they?

I hope it is still fun!

It may take work but if anyone can figure out the genetics it will be you.

If it does not drive you crazy first.

 

[draye]

Ideal Poultry has both Production Blacks and Barred Hollands. They don't have Silver Leghorns, but they do have Silver Lakenvelders, Silver Hamburgs (penciled or spangled), Silver Campines, and a few other choices for silver based white layers for the red sexlinks.

Murray McMurray carries the Silver Leghorn. Paired with a RIR rooster or a New Hampshire rooster would give you Red Sex Links.

 

[cmom]

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I just want to encourage everyone who has any Sex-Link projects, not to give up. I will try again. Sometimes the breeding's work out the way they are expected to and other times they don't. I have enjoyed my projects. It's fun to see how the chicks turn out and sometimes we hit a home run.

 

[draye]

Hey, a bit late to the party but wanted to respond to this...

I bought Hollands from Ideal in spring 14 for my blue sex link project. Honestly, I'm not that thrilled with them. They do lay decent sized eggs, but only like 5 a week max. I've also had 2 or 3 just up and die on me for no apparent reason in that time frame. I've decided to overwinter them so I can hatch in the spring, but I'll be ordering the production blacks asap to replace them. They just don't strike me as thrifty, hardy birds. Granted, I have a small sample, but that's my experience.

Something else to consider is cuckoo Marans. I'm not sure how the dark of a Wellie crosses with the dark of a Marans, but it seems logical the offspring pullets would lay dark eggs.

I was never too impressed with bird from Ideal. .

Question: (I'm sure this has been asked and answered many times, but I'm to lazy to find where) Is it true that a Buff orp roo over a Barred rock hen will produce black sexlinks?

Yep, you got it.

 

[dheltzel]

I'd thought hatcheries didn't use it because you have to cross breeds and they mostly sell purebred birds. Except My Pet chicken--don't get me started on their "Fun New Just Created Breeds"

cmom, I remember your puzzling bird post. Genetics just throw us for a loop sometime, don't they?

Hatcheries do a brisk business with "cross breeds" (hybrids, just a different term). Some are just all mixed up (Easter Eggers/"Ameracunas" and Production Reds are examples of this). So I don't the don't use shank color because they are afraid of creating cross breeds. They use the conventional sex linkages because they are reliable and well understood genetically.

I believe (but am not certain of this) that the sex linkage re shank color is based on the id gene. That is a lot tougher to work with because their are other modifying genes for shank color that affect the phenotype but are not sex-linked.

I'm not saying it won't work, just that it's harder to work out a reliable cross, and that is why hatcheries don't use it.

 

[Champoux]

I have a beautiful barred rock rooster and would like to try crossing him with another breed. Is there any desirable combinations from him other than more barred rocks? I have blue andalusian., rhode island red, and copper moran hens available but not opposed to getting another breed.

 

[dheltzel]

I have a beautiful barred rock rooster and would like to try crossing him with another breed. Is there any desirable combinations from him other than more barred rocks? I have blue andalusian., rhode island red, and copper moran hens available but not opposed to getting another breed.

None of those hens will create a sexlink when crossed to a BR roo. The chicks resulting from these crosses should be good layers and possibly quite pretty.

 

[junebuggena]

I have a beautiful barred rock rooster and would like to try crossing him with another breed. Is there any desirable combinations from him other than more barred rocks? I have blue andalusian., rhode island red, and copper moran hens available but not opposed to getting another breed.

The chicks won't be sexlinks, if that's what you're asking about. To make black sexlinks, you need barred hens, not barred roosters. You can breed him with whatever you please. Breeding him to a blue Andalusian may produce some blue barred chicks.

 

[Champoux]

Thanks for the information. Blue barred chickens might be kind of cool.

 

[donrae]

Thanks for the information. Blue barred chickens might be kind of cool.

They are pretty