Sex- linked Information

[marvriel]

Thanks for the information. And they will still be brown eggs?

 

[Ridgerunner]

You might get a variety of shades, egg shell color can get complicated genetically, but yes, if they hatch from a brown egg your red sex link based mutts are almost certain to lay some shade of brown egg.

 

[cmom]

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Here are some pictures from some that I hatched. I sold the darker gray chicks You can see some of the darker gray chicks but this will give you an idea. Here they are in the grow-out coop with some of my other chicks. There are also some Rhode Island Red and Rhode Island White chicks in here too. They are great layers of large brown eggs.

These chicks are all from my Sex-Link breeding project. I did a second breeding too and white was the most dominant color.

The ones with the brown that look like females are males. I had some darker gray colored ones but someone bought them.

 

[Dead Rabbit]

From my experience of breeding sexlink back to each other, the vast majority of red biddies are pullets and the vast majority of whites are cockerels.
They continue with their superior lay ability. And yes the eggs are brown.
I have never gone past the first back cross generation. I'm sure anything beyond this will be a mixtire of red and white pullets/cockerels.

 

[cmom]

We have 23 Red Sex Link hens, and are looking to breed them with our Red-Sex-Link rooster. We got them from a hatchery.

Does anyone know what the offspring will be or look like? As long as they are healthy and still lay, we don't really care what official name they are.

I still call the chicks Sex-Links. These were my project birds .

 

[SunnySideUpGUAM]

hey guys does anyone know how some sex links just have a more solid color instead of the white under color and red outside? I thought I saw a bird called a Gold sex link that had a more solid buff golden color but I understand its still a RSL just a different mating.

So how do I make a sexlink with a more solid color?

 

[cmom]

hey guys does anyone know how some sex links just have a more solid color instead of the white under color and red outside? I thought I saw a bird called a Gold sex link that had a more solid buff golden color but I understand its still a RSL just a different mating.

So how do I make a sexlink with a more solid color?

For the mating's to work the physical characteristic must be carried on one of the sex chromosome - thus the term ‘sex-linked’- and the correct male and female breeds should be selected. For example, a Delaware female mated to a New Hampshire or Rhode Island Red male is a sex-link cross where the males will have the Delaware feather pattern of their mother and females will have a solid red feather pattern similar to their father. If, however, you mate a Delaware male with a New Hampshire or Rhode Island Red female, all the offspring will have the same Delaware feather pattern.

The Black sex-links (also known as Rock Reds) are produced by crossing the Barred Plymouth Rock hen with a Rhode Island Red or New Hampshire rooster. At hatch both sexes have black down, but the males can be identified by the white dot on their heads. As previously indicated, males feather out with the Barred Rock pattern along with a few red feathers, while females feather out solid black with some red in the neck feathers.

Golden Comet, Gold Star, or Cinnamon Queen depending on the specific cross used) are produced by a number of different crosses. White Plymouth Rock hens with the silver factor are crossed with a New Hampshire rooster to produce the Golden Comet, Gold Star. A Silver Laced Wynandotte hen is crossed with a New Hampshire rooster to produce the Cinnamon Queen. Additional possible red sex-link cross combinations are the Rhode Island White hen and a Rhode Island Red rooster Which produce a male that will hatch out white and can feather out to pure white or with some black feathering and the females Redish color with white on the tail feathers and maybe around the neck also called a Red Sex-Link, Again, a Delaware hen with a Rhode Island Red or New Hampshire rooster. Males hatch out looking like the Delawares females, depending on the cross. Females hatch out red like the Rhode Island Red male. Coloring will depend on the cross, and they how they feather out. In the breeding's the males can be New Hampshire Reds but most use Rhode Island Reds.

You can not breed a sex link male or female to another breed and get a Sex Link. The chicks will hatch out in all sorts of colors. I did an experiment to see what the chicks would hatch out like and they hatched out some white some black and some different shades of buff and redish. I had male chicks with the same coloring as a normal Red Sex Link female. It won't work... On my third generation of breeding the sex links the colors did tend to come out more pure such as all white with no other colors and redish more like a light colored Rhode Island Red. I hope this helps. Good luck and have fun...

 

[SunnySideUpGUAM]

Awesome thanks!

 

[curious chickee]

If you do breed a buff to a barred hen, you do get more color

 

[donrae]

We have 23 Red Sex Link hens, and are looking to breed them with our Red-Sex-Link rooster. We got them from a hatchery.

Does anyone know what the offspring will be or look like? As long as they are healthy and still lay, we don't really care what official name they are.

Fred's Hens did a nice post about this very thing It's an older post and the pics aren't available anymore, but his text is pretty descriptive about color, build and laying ability.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/660815/breeding-sex-links-third-generation