Sex- linked Information

[CuzChickens]

Check the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. There are some areas around Gainesville that allow birds and other areas that don't.

Thanks! I will look into it!

 

[SunnySideUpGUAM]

Could you use a Brown Red Ameraucana rooster in place of a RIR to produce red sexlinks with Delawares, ColumbianRocks, or SilverPenciliedRocks ? Or black sexlinks with BarredRocks or Cuckoo Marans?

 

[junebuggena]

Could you use a Brown Red Ameraucana rooster in place of a RIR to produce red sexlinks with Delawares, ColumbianRocks, or SilverPenciliedRocks ? Or black sexlinks with BarredRocks or Cuckoo Marans?

Brown Red Ameraucana are birchen patterned. This means that as chicks, they are black. You can't see silver or gold on all black chicks. Once they are feathered, you may be able to see the gold of the females and the silver of males, but by then, you would know which chicks were which based on comb development.
This is assuming that he really is a Brown Red Ameraucana, and not an Easter Egger.
With black sexlinks, the rooster color is a lot less important. The only requirements are no solid white roosters and no barred roosters.

 

[SunnySideUpGUAM]

ok so how about using a Blue Wheaten to produce red sexlinks or black sexlinks?

 

[junebuggena]

ok so how about using a Blue Wheaten to produce red sexlinks or black sexlinks?

Wheaten down is too pale for red sexlinks. As already stated, as long as a rooster isn't solid white or barred, he will work for black sexlinks.

 

[kitten3571c]

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Daddy is a cream legbar X wheaten ameraucana cross .... mom is probably my bared rock ... is the black chick sex linked? Has a pattern to it in black and silver ...

 

[junebuggena]

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Daddy is a cream legbar X wheaten ameraucana cross .... mom is probably my bared rock ... is the black chick sex linked? Has a pattern to it in black and silver ...

The white spot on the back of the head is what indicates the presence of the barring gene. The legbar mix rooster will produce some barred chicks, regardless of who he is paired with. You can't use a rooster with barring to produce sexlinked chicks. You can't know for certain that this a male chick that got the barring from the mother or if it's a female chick that got the barring from the father. It could be either.

 

[desertrocks]

The white spot on the back of the head is what indicates the presence of the barring gene. The legbar mix rooster will produce some barred chicks, regardless of who he is paired with. You can't use a rooster with barring to produce sexlinked chicks. You can't know for certain that this a male chick that got the barring from the mother or if it's a female chick that got the barring from the father. It could be either.

Isn't the Daddy basically an EE?
Not certain of the lineage of our EE roo but last hatch of his offspring yeilded 2 spotted heads just like that one which were from Barred Rock hens. I think I am beginning to understand some of this and am watching the latest hatch closely as again there is one with a head spot.

Both from the first hatch are cockerels. This pic is from the current hatch. The one with the spot is perched on aunties back. Again Barred Rock hen was mama.
The pair on the left are have a Black Australorp for a papa. That pen is mainly BlackStars with 2 Production Reds, an Amberlink, and a SLW mixed in so not sure of mama. The downy on the right is EE roo/Leghorn hen. That pair produced this cockerel last time.

One of the BR mix cockerels is on the left.

 

[junebuggena]

Isn't the Daddy basically an EE?
Not certain of the lineage of our EE roo but last hatch of his offspring yeilded 2 spotted heads just like that one which were from Barred Rock hens. I think I am beginning to understand some of this and am watching the latest hatch closely as again there is one with a head spot.
Both from the first hatch are cockerels. This pic is from the current hatch. The one with the spot is perched on aunties back. Again Barred Rock hen was mama.
The pair on the left are have a Black Australorp for a papa. That pen is mainly BlackStars with 2 Production Reds, an Amberlink, and a SLW mixed in so not sure of mama. The downy on the right is EE roo/Leghorn hen. That pair produced this cockerel last time.

One of the BR mix cockerels is on the left.

Hatchery sourced Easter Eggers don't usually have the barring gene. In @kitten3571c 's case, her 'easter egger' rooster is a Legbar cross. Legbars have the barring gene. Roosters with the barring gene don't work to produce chicks that are sexable at hatch. When it comes to sexlinks based on the barring gene, it has to be the hen that is barred, and the rooster can not be barred.

 

[Rod-T]

So cream legbar is barred.. is it barred enough to make sexlink? Cream legbar hens bred by black copper marans rooster? Should make olive egger sexlink?is it be reliable sexing at hatch?