Sex- linked Information

[MeanV2]

Ok! I am curious about a few crosses and if anybody has had experience let me know what you got and how you liked it.
RIR Rooster to be used in all crosses.

with a Barred Rock Hen. I think these would be Black Sex link chicks?

with a White Leghorn Hen. I doubt these would be sex linked but what quality of layer would I get?

with a Black Australorp Hen. What quality layer should this produce?

I appreciate any answers or opinions!

Very interesting thread!

Dan

 

[MeanV2]

Also a Cross I am interested in is a RIR Rooster with a Columbian Wyandotte. Anyone?

Dan

 

[Ridgerunner]

With a RIR rooster, assuming all have pure genetics.

Barred Rock hen – Black Sex links.

White Leghorn – I’m not even going to try to guess. I’ve heard so many different things that might be hiding under that white and whether that is even dominant white or recessive white I’m not guessing.

Black Australorp – Not sex links. In theory the adults should be solid black but you might get some reddish feathers leaking through, especially with the roosters.

Columbian Wyandotte – Red Sex link

As far as the quality of egg layers, that has nothing to do with them being sex links. If the parents are from flocks that are good egg layers, the chicks should be too. That is an inherited trait and not linked to any gene that makes them sex links.

If you cross a Columbian Wyandotte rooster from the same flock your Columbian Wyandotte hen came from with a RIR hen from the same flock the RIR rooster came from, I’d expect the same egg laying abilities from the offspring though the pullets of the CW rooster over RIR hen would not be sex linked.

 

[MeanV2]

RR Thanks for taking time to post that info. Gives me food for thought.

Dan

 

[Daloorashens]

well acording to the laws of genetics and if the birds you have are pure for the following genes. ER/ER(Birchen from BCM) B/-(Barring from Delawares) then you will obtain Black sexlinks

That is what I am hoping for... I don't completely know the background on the birds, so I will collect several eggs and see what we get, if all else fails, the hens should at least be good layers and the roos good for meat

 

[KingR0o5t3r]

could I make black sex links, with a black australorp rooster, and a silver laced wyandotte hen?

 

[farmerChef]

could I make black sex links, with a black australorp rooster, and a silver laced wyandotte hen?

no, you have to have a barred hen to make black sexinks. If you had a red rooter, you could make red sexlinks

 

[KingR0o5t3r]

okay thanks

 

[Dead Rabbit]

im hearing great things about the PRODUCTION RED type hybrids. i have white rhode island red hens. and i know traditionally that you put a RIR rooster over the white hens to make the golden sex links.
a sexlink hybrid is only as good as the parent stock. so wouuld a production red rooster over the riw hens make a sexlink hybrid with great production rate? is the already crossed production reds truly a red chicken? or is there other colors in the production red mix?

 

[nicalandia]

im hearing great things about the PRODUCTION RED type hybrids. i have white rhode island red hens. and i know traditionally that you put a RIR rooster over the white hens to make the golden sex links.

you cant create a bird that lays the same as the Hy Line type of Hybrids.. no with normal RIR.

a sexlink hybrid is only as good as the parent stock.

This Much is True. thats why I think anybody can have simmilar production type birds if one uses the Discarted hens and if you are lucky to get a Male Hybrid..

so wouuld a production red rooster over the riw hens make a sexlink hybrid with great production rate?

saddly the Sex link trait is lost on the Males. why? because their genome is "Golden" S/s+. not gold s+/s+. so he will sire gold hens(s+/-) and silver hens(S/-) and Silver males(S/S) and Golden males(S/s+) if crossed back to RIW.

is the already crossed production reds truly a red chicken? or is there other colors in the production red mix?

the females of this Cross are Truly a "Red" chicken. meaning they are gold based s+/- just like your RIR hens...