Sex- linked Information

[littlefarmgirl9]

Thanks for putting this up here, it was really helpful.

 

[SunnySideUpGUAM]

will a splash ameraucana roo x barred rock hen= a black sex link? blue hens and barred roos?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Yes, the hens will be blue and the roosters will be blue-barred. I have not made blue sex links myself so I don’t have the experience, but some people say the spot on the male chick is easy to see, others say it can be difficult. That’s something you’ll have to decide for yourself after they hatch.

Good luck!

 

[dheltzel]

Yes, the hens will be blue and the roosters will be blue-barred. I have not made blue sex links myself so I don’t have the experience, but some people say the spot on the male chick is easy to see, others say it can be difficult. That’s something you’ll have to decide for yourself after they hatch.

Good luck!

It's definitely a lot harder to sex a blue sexlink. I have tried with 2 different barred hens and found 1 breed impossible to sex until the comb/hackles developed. The other was somewhat sexable, but I still consider it unreliable. I raised a few males that I thought were female at hatch.

Overall, it's not worth it. If you want blue hens, get a breed with single combs and you can sex them at about 6 or 8 weeks. Or figure out the right crosses for feather sexing, that is not color dependent.

 

[BusyBearMama]

I need to update my earlier post. The yellow chipmunk ones are actually silver x white rock and they're so sweet, I thought they couldn't be because I only have the one hen but nope, she had 9 chicks! And my 5 Sussex had the 8 others lol. The silver rock x speckled Sussex were the wild type and all the gray ones were cockerels and all the red/brown ones are pullets. And the pullets all feathered in with stripes down their necks and the cockerels have random or across stripes so sexing them ended up being extremely simple and they are BEAUTIFUL!

 

[donrae]

It's definitely a lot harder to sex a blue sexlink. I have tried with 2 different barred hens and found 1 breed impossible to sex until the comb/hackles developed. The other was somewhat sexable, but I still consider it unreliable. I raised a few males that I thought were female at hatch.

Overall, it's not worth it. If you want blue hens, get a breed with single combs and you can sex them at about 6 or 8 weeks. Or figure out the right crosses for feather sexing, that is not color dependent.

I still dream of being able to make a reliable blue sex link

. Literally, I have dreams about getting a successful cross. But, I'm pretty much resigned to just breeding blue birds and growing them out.

 

[dheltzel]

I still dream of being able to make a reliable blue sex link

. Literally, I have dreams about getting a successful cross. But, I'm pretty much resigned to just breeding blue birds and growing them out.

This would be most feasible with feather sexing. If Ameraucanas are slow feathering, you could put a black minorca or black leghorn roo over splash ameraucana pullets and then feather sex the newly hatched (all) blue chicks. I am not certain the Ams are slow feathering, that's just a guess/hope.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Not really sex link related but you mentioned how with blue sex links the males would be blue barred. Well is it possible to get blue barred females? Not necessarily sex links or anything but I think I've heard of blue barred or blue cuckoo or something like that Rocks and I just think it would be so cool to have a blue barred or blue cuckoo Rock. And I know with Barred Rocks obviously the females and males are barred so do you think it's possible to develop female blue barred rocks??

 

[junebuggena]

Not really sex link related but you mentioned how with blue sex links the males would be blue barred. Well is it possible to get blue barred females? Not necessarily sex links or anything but I think I've heard of blue barred or blue cuckoo or something like that Rocks and I just think it would be so cool to have a blue barred or blue cuckoo Rock. And I know with Barred Rocks obviously the females and males are barred so do you think it's possible to develop female blue barred rocks??

If the rooster is barred, then yes, you can get barred hens. Remember, for a hen to get the barring gene, it must come from the father.

 

[ShrekDawg]

If the rooster is barred, then yes, you can get barred hens. Remember, for a hen to get the barring gene, it must come from the father.

Thanks, I didn't realize it had to come from the father.

So then could you breed those blue sex links and take the blue barred roosters and make blue hens? Or does the fact he's a sex link make it not carry through?

Could you take a regular Barred Rock roo with some sort of blue or splash hen? I forget the requirements for getting blue birds, since blue doesn't breed true