Sex- linked Information

[phasianidae]

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Yep

 

[Lothiriel]

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Yep

Would they look like normal Black sex links, or ... what?

This is why I'm asking... https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=607773 I want to say pullet, but ... It doesn't look like a normal BSL.

 

[RAREROO]

Lothiriel and others, please don't take any offence here as none is intended, but going back to what Tim said here

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The information in the first post of the thread was intended to prevent all the questions on each endless possibility of a pairing that will produce a sexlink cross. Don't get me wrong, we don't mind helping people and of course it would be easy enough to just give a simple yes or no answer, be as I said, the purpose of this thread was, like any good teacher, to give people the information they need to impower them to think for themselves and answer their own questions. So again don't take any offence, but just use the information given on the first page and ask yourself if your roo you are planning to use is neither barred nor dominant white ? And if your hens you are planning to use are barred ? And that will give you your answer.

 

[RAREROO]

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Yep

Would they look like normal Black sex links, or ... what?

This is why I'm asking... https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=607773 I want to say pullet, but ... It doesn't look like a normal BSL.

If by "normal" you mean what hatcheries sell, then no because the same breeds weren't used to make it as watch hatcheries use. But there are hundreds, actually thousands or more combinations that will produce black sexlinks and they can look nothing like what the hatcheries sell from the particular combination they use. The ones in the picture will have a lot of silkie influence as well as blue coloration from the blue gene.

 

[phasianidae]

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Yep

Would they look like normal Black sex links, or ... what?

This is why I'm asking... https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=607773 I want to say pullet, but ... It doesn't look like a normal BSL.

Lothiriel,

Other than the dominant Silkie traits, the black sexlink pullets produced from a Blue Silkie and a Barred Rock hen would lack the gold leakage. The reason the down color is different is due to the blue allele. I would guess the chick on that thread is a pullet. Blue negatively affects sexlink accuracy.

Ryan

 

[Breshcandra]

hmm interesting. Thanks for asking the question Lothiriel.

I did not know that the blue gene made it harder for sex - link.

 

[RAREROO]

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it doesn't make it harder to produce a sexlink, it just makes it harder to identify the sexlinks since the distinction is a light spot on the head of the males and its just harder to identify a white spot on a blue/grey backgrown than it is on ablack background.

 

[Breshcandra]

Here's a head shot. I had to use a flash

 

[RAREROO]

It still hard to tell, I do see some lightness on the back of the head where the light spot would be, but its the same as the light areas on the sides so it may just be the flash but its hard to tell with it being blue and only one chick to look at.

Try PMing halo on here and ask if she has any chick pics of her blue sexlinks, she has made them before with a. Splash Rock roo on barred rock hens so she may have pics that would help compare.

 

[Breshcandra]

Breshcandra wrote:

Hi I was told to ask if you have any pictures of your blue sex-link that you had from your silkie roo and barred rock.
I have one blue sex-link chick and I would like to be able to compare what the males look like and the females.

Thankyou

Hi,

Im sorry, but Ive never had any silkies. All I have is Plymouth Rocks.

Kathy

This is what I got back.​