Sex- linked Information

[Turk Raphael]

Hi Happy--the Chicken Hut is going together well, slowly but surely. We are grateful for your help.

I do not know the answer to your above question, but I can tell you what I am doing, and I will let you know how it works out. Of course, these things take time.

I have a couple really REALLY nice heritage RIR roos, and I plan to put them over my Silver Laced Wyandotte hens. Hmmm, I wonder what will happen to the combs, as the SLWs and rose comb, and the RIRs are stand up comb. Anyway, that is what I am doing, and I will have to re-check this, but I believe it will give a white chick for males and a reddish chick for the gals.

I think this should produce a very nice healthy chicken, which will lay nice brown eggs. It may take a while for it to start laying, because the RIRs, especially heritage, can be as long as nine months to start, but my hope is that then these hens will continue to lay for a long time; read years.

They will be coming from nice healthy stock.

Like I say, I will let you know. I really like these RIR roos, as they are calm and non aggressive. I cannot have an aggressive roo as I am a little fragile. It is a death sentence here to attack me.

I don't have Bramas. I did study the subject for a while before I picked on the above combo.

Catherine

 

[Ridgerunner]

 
Hi Happy--the Chicken Hut is going together well, slowly but surely.  We are grateful for your help.


I do not know the answer to your above question, but I can tell you what I am doing, and I will let you know how it works out.  Of course, these things take time.


I have a couple really REALLY nice heritage RIR roos, and I plan to put them over my Silver Laced Wyandotte hens.  Hmmm, I wonder what will happen to the combs, as the SLWs and rose comb, and the RIRs are stand up comb.  Anyway, that is what I am doing, and I will have to re-check this, but I believe it will give a white chick for males and a reddish chick for the gals. 


I think this should produce a very nice healthy chicken, which will lay nice brown eggs.  It may take a while for it to start laying, because the RIRs, especially heritage, can be as long as nine months to start, but my hope is that then these hens will continue to lay for a long time; read years.


They will be coming from nice healthy stock.


Like I say, I will let you know.  I really like these RIR roos, as they are calm and non aggressive.  I cannot have an aggressive roo as I am a little fragile.  It is a death sentence here to attack me.


I don't have Bramas.  I did study the subject for a while before I picked on the above combo./img/smilies/big_smile.png


Catherine

A RIR Rooster over a Silver Laced Wyandotte hen will give you a red sex link. The female chicks will have reddish down, the males yellow down. You have it right.

I won’t go into the genetics but your chicks will have arose comb, like the Wyandotte.

 

[kfloydlezak]

If I have a new Hampshire red rooster and golden comet sex links, can I breed them and get healthy babies? If I breed new Hampshire red TO a rir, will it still be sexible at hatch?

 

[junebuggena]

If I have a new Hampshire red rooster and golden comet sex links, can I breed them and get healthy babies? If I breed new Hampshire red TO a rir, will it still be sexible at hatch?

Why wouldn't you be able to breed them and get healthy babies? Both are chickens. Same species.
Red roosters bred to red hens will not produce sexlinked chicks.

 

[kfloydlezak]

Someone told me I might get genetic problems. Thank you for advising me I will not get sex links from them

 

[kfloydlezak]

If I have red sex link hens, what rooster can I back breed to produce sex links from the sex links?

 

[junebuggena]

If I have red sex link hens, what rooster can I back breed to produce sex links from the sex links?

Red sexlink hens can not produce more red sexlinks, regardless of the rooster they are paired with. They don't have the required 'silver' base color required. They inherit their father's red base color only. That's what makes them sexlinked. Red sexlinks are produced by breeding a red rooster with a silver hen. The males get the silver coloring, and the females get the red. It's the silver gene from the hen that is the important part of the equation for red sexlinks. A red sexlink hen cannot inherit a silver gene, and is, therefore, unable to produce more sexlinked chicks.

Someone told me I might get genetic problems.

You were misinformed.

 

[Mosey2003]

I have a Buff Orpington rooster and Barred Rock hens. I read through how the black sexlinks work and am good with that. I was wondering though, the only places I see the chicks from this cross mentioned, they say they have yellow faces. Is it still going to be easy to tell them apart since I'm not using a red rooster?

 

[junebuggena]

I have a Buff Orpington rooster and Barred Rock hens. I read through how the black sexlinks work and am good with that. I was wondering though, the only places I see the chicks from this cross mentioned, they say they have yellow faces. Is it still going to be easy to tell them apart since I'm not using a red rooster?

The buff genes do put up more a 'fight' against extended black than other genes, but it still doesn't affect the sexlinking. Only the males will have the white spots on the back of the head, indicating the presence of the barring gene.

 

[Mosey2003]

The buff genes do put up more a 'fight' against extended black than other genes, but it still doesn't affect the sexlinking. Only the males will have the white spots on the back of the head, indicating the presence of the barring gene.

Right, but I see pics of chicks like this and I get nervous. Would the female just have an all black head still?