Sex- linked Information

[Curnow]

I suspected that would be the answer. My only full size roosters are a Spitzhauben and a Cuckoo Marans. While they both produce nice offspring (so far), I was hoping to do some sex linking. I do have a juvenile RIR that came by accident from feed store. But my other roosters are so mellow and polite and not at all aggressive, I hate to take a chance that the RIR would be. I doubt that my tiny black bantam Cochin would get much done with my barred and cuckoo hens. Makes me laugh just thinking about it

 

[BusyBearMama]

Ok so this is a fantastic read. I have a question : I do hope this thread is still being watched by some chicken gene geniuses??!!

Crossed my silver penciled rock with my speckled Sussex hens & I got this
Chipmunk

& wild type in a few shades from gray to gray/brown to red/brown

So far the chipmunk we hatched before this batch is a male and the wild types are pullets. Do you think they're sex linked?

 

[junebuggena]

Ok so this is a fantastic read. I have a question : I do hope this thread is still being watched by some chicken gene geniuses??!!

Crossed my silver penciled rock with my speckled Sussex hens & I got this
Chipmunk

& wild type in a few shades from gray to gray/brown to red/brown


So far the chipmunk we hatched before this batch is a male and the wild types are pullets. Do you think they're sex linked?

The silver rooster will not produce sexlinks. It's the hens that must be silver for sexlinking to occur. A rooster will pass the silver gene to all his chicks.

 

[BusyBearMama]

The silver rooster will not produce sexlinks. It's the hens that must be silver for sexlinking to occur. A rooster will pass the silver gene to all his chicks.

Interesting, so then what do you make of the very different looking chicks? Is it normal to get chicks that don't look a thing a like like that? And the yellow ones are filling in yellow I think and the wild looking ones are filling in white ...

 

[cmom]

I have had some project where the coloring were different on the males and females but the chicks I thought were males turned out to be females and the females turned out to be males. There is a chart in post #1. Many breeds of chicks can have the chipmunk marking but they will disappear when their down falls out and their feathers start to grow in.

 

[junebuggena]

Interesting, so then what do you make of the very different looking chicks? Is it normal to get chicks that don't look a thing a like like that? And the yellow ones are filling in yellow I think and the wild looking ones are filling in white ...

It's the result of the mixed breedings. There is no correlation of chick down to gender with that breeding.

 

[birdbrain79]

Your rooster is not pure for the silver gene that's why the chicks are different colors.

They aren't sex linked. The only way a silver rooster can be used in a sex linked breeding is with barred hens.

 

[SunnySideUpGUAM]

Hey guys im back with a new question. Has anyone here tried using silver laced barnevelder or silver double laced barnevelder hens in a sex link cross? Will it work with a RIR roo or a BO roo?

 

[junebuggena]

Hey guys im back with a new question. Has anyone here tried using silver laced barnevelder or silver double laced barnevelder hens in a sex link cross? Will it work with a RIR roo or a BO roo?

Should work. You may not be able to see the difference between the males and females in chick down, though. As they feather in, it should be very obvious which are the silver boys.

 

[SunnySideUpGUAM]

Should work. You may not be able to see the difference between the males and females in chick down, though. As they feather in, it should be very obvious which are the silver boys.

thanks junebuggena! I think ill try it, its on my list.