Sex- linked Information

[varidgerunner]

Thanks or pointing out the terminology I was looking for. After a few generations I have discovered that I have an auto-sexing strain of bird. I have read of it before, I don't know how common it is. It appears to be a dominant trait, because it happens to anything I cross my pure strain on.

 

[napdognewfie]

Pictures please.

 

[donrae]

Went to buy some hens today and came home with two Light Brahmas. Not because I especially like them, but because I can use them to make sex links with next summer

. I'll have them, hopefully some Colombian Wyandottes and some salmon Faverolles. Just need a nice Red rooster and I'm set!

 

[cmom]

Went to buy some hens today and came home with two Light Brahmas. Not because I especially like them, but because I can use them to make sex links with next summer

. I'll have them, hopefully some Colombian Wyandottes and some salmon Faverolles. Just need a nice Red rooster and I'm set!

To bad you don't live in Florida. I have quite a few nice Red cockerels.

 

[cmom]

Thanks or pointing out the terminology I was looking for. After a few generations I have discovered that I have an auto-sexing strain of bird. I have read of it before, I don't know how common it is. It appears to be a dominant trait, because it happens to anything I cross my pure strain on.

I wish it would happen to me. I crossed a Rose Comb Rhode Island Red cockerel with some Rose Comb Rhode Island White pullets. Most that hatched out were females. I have done this cross with Single Comb RIR male and SC RIW females. I got 2 different colors with my Rose Combs, white chicks and black chicks. As far as I know, ( I gave all of the chicks away but 2 of the white ones) all were females except one of the white chicks I gave away turned out to be a male and the 2 white chicks I kept turned out to be females. With the Single Comb all of the white chicks turned out to be males and the buff colored chicks turned out to be Red Sex-Link females. All of the parent birds are from pure stock.



A pullet


The chicks shortly after they hatched. There are some RIR chicks there too.

 

[donrae]

I wish it would happen to me. I crossed a Rose Comb Rhode Island Red cockerel with some Rose Comb Rhode Island White pullets. Most that hatched out were females. I have done this cross with Single Comb RIR male and SC RIW females. I got 2 different colors with my Rose Combs, white chicks and black chicks. As far as I know, ( I gave all of the chicks away but 2 of the white ones) all were females except one of the white chicks I gave away turned out to be a male and the 2 white chicks I kept turned out to be females. With the Single Comb all of the white chicks turned out to be males and the buff colored chicks turned out to be Red Sex-Link females. All of the parent birds are from pure stock.



A pullet


The chicks shortly after they hatched. There are some RIR chicks there too.

I was wondering how that top bird turned out. It's sure pretty!

And thanks, but I'm not too worried about getting my hands on a Red cockerel

. I do think I may be a bit pickier about getting a nice, larger bird though. You never know who is breeding nice stock around you until you put out a wanted ad, or go to the auction and see cull cockerels of a fairly rare breed you didn't know was local.

 

[ShrekDawg]

At least they're cute lol

 

[cmom]

Quote: Here and her hatch mate haven't started laying yet but are larger than the Rose Comb Rhode Island Red chicks they were hatched with. All of the chicks have the same father. I put some of my RC RIW pullets in the same pen as some of my RC RIR pullets and a cockerel. I'll have to take a picture as they have grown since this one was taken.

These are some of my RSL girls from last years hatch.

 

[cmom]

Does anyone know anything about breeds that are pure but whose chicks are naturally sex-linked? In other words, you can get chicks that you can tell apart without making a cross? I always wondered why this trait wasn't incorporated into more commercial breeds.

One way I can sort of tell which chicks will be male or female is that the females tend to start growing out their tails before the males do. Maybe not all breeds but quite a few.

 

[varidgerunner]

The way it has been going with these, the ones with white are cockerels and the more solid ones are pullets. Don't know if it will stay that way.