Sex- linked Information

[Strader]

I am Starting to incubate some Red sex-links on Saturday and will post photo's shortly after hatch. Also hatching some copper Marans.

 

[nicalandia]

I am Starting to incubate some Red sex-links on Saturday and will post photo's shortly after hatch. Also hatching some copper Marans.

Nice, Thanks..

 

[Ridgerunner]

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I Disagree, Birchen is the Second best Chick down you can work with if you are doing a Barred Sexlinked cross, Wheaten is the Worst, not Birchen Birchen chicks can look quite like Extended black chicks, so the headspot will be easier to spot, unlike wheaten here french copper maran chicks https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...ed-for-the-byc-2012-calendar/440#post_7088858

See how hard Birchen is. All I have to do is mention it and I'm in trouble. Seriously I certainly bow to your expertise. Do you disagree with anything else I said in that post? I'm especially interested in your thoughts on a Black Australorp rooster over a Delaware hen. After your comment on wheaten, will you be able to see the spot?

 

[tommysgirl]

I have happy news! My broody mutt hatched 7 chicks Easter weekend. These were all of the potential pairings

New Hampshire Rooster over Silver Grey Dorking and CA Grey

Delaware Rooster over CA Grey

At hatch I had:

Two red chipmunks and
One yellow chipmunk all with 5 toes... = two girls and a boy...all Dorking crosses
Two blue/black babies with red mottling...NH over CA Grey both girls
Two black chicks one with a head spot and one with a head spot and creamy face. I assumed both were boys and the creamy faced one was from the NH over CA Grey and the other was from the Del over CA Grey pairing. I had a broody hatch a cockerel from this pairing before and that is what that chick looked like

So according to their fluff at hatch I had 4 pullets and 3 cockerels. Now at 12 days old the Del/ CA Grey little one has barring developing but the creamy faced baby is still black all over. No barring anywhere so it looks like this is a pullet chick from the Del pairing.

5 girls and 2 boys

Now my problem is I don't know which pullets to keep but what a nice problem to have



B to F Dorking X NH boy, Del X CG girl NH X CG girl








Beauty shot of the same 3 babies just hours old..the creamy faced baby is the one I thought was a cockerel but now appears to be a pullet!




The Whole crew enjoying FF

 

[nicalandia]

I'm especially interested in your thoughts on a Black Australorp rooster over a Delaware hen. After your comment on wheaten, will you be able to see the spot?

Any Extended Black rooster mated to Delaware hen would produce Sexlinks, infact any Birchen Rooster would too.. I dont know if you have breed Marans, but its not uncommon to hatch wheaten maran chicks from two Black Copper Maran parents, and thats because Wheaten is completely recessive to Dominant Extended black and Birchen, at least this has been confirmed by Maran breeders,


so Black Australorp Roo over Delaware Hen would produce Black sexlinks, its the same logic as regular Black sexlinks, we just need to change the breed names but the genes remain the same..

wheaten = Delaware/RIR
Extended Black = Black australop/Barred Rock
Sexlinked Barring = Delaware hen /Barred Rock hen, so the barring gene is on the hen where it needs to be to produce the black sexlinks..

 

[jerryse]

Some sex linked chicks fresh out of the incubator. Males to the left 6 of them and 4 females on the right.

 

[sonew123]

So here's a puzzle- I put a Cream Legbar hen under a Black Copper Marans rooster to make sexlinks. Most of them are as expected, all black for female or black with a headspot for male. Then I am getting WHITE chicks. I included a 1 week old male with a faint barring spot and a regular black sexlink female for comparison. The only thing I can figure out is I know some of my Cream Legbars carry a recessive white gene. But for it to show up in these chicks my Black Copper Marans rooster would have to be carrying the exact same recessive white gene, right?

Very interested in this cross as I have them to be able to do it what do you do with your white chicks??

 

[SumterChix2355]

We bought some red sex link "Hens" from the local Tractor Supply back in February, but this hen is starting to look like a roo to me. We're new to owning chickens. What do you think? Shim isn't crowing like a rooster...but shim has a bigger comb and waddle than out other RSL hen.
Possible rooster?:

The other RSL for comparison:

 

[topdog24]

It is possible, but not likely, the answer is that she is getting ready to start laying eggs, it fits with her age, their wattles and cone develope and turn red just before they start laying, she is probably developing faster that the others, introduce her to the nest box. Traits of hen is a wide but whereas a rooster has a narrow but and more feathered than a hen, put her in the nest box and lay your hand on her back and see if she settles in, if so she will be laying in a couple of weeks, 15 to 20 weeks to lay for rsl. Please pm me if I am correct, LC

 

[ronott1]

We bought some red sex link "Hens" from the local Tractor Supply back in February, but this hen is starting to look like a roo to me. We're new to owning chickens. What do you think? Shim isn't crowing like a rooster...but shim has a bigger comb and waddle than out other RSL hen.
Possible rooster?:

The other RSL for comparison:

Red Sexlinks are supposed to look like this:

My guess is that you have a Res Sexlink and a golden comet pullet.

Unless the really messed up and the chicks were not sexlinked, you are guaranteed to have pullets. That is the beauty of Sex Linked chicks.