Sex links?

[ricky lafleur]

I'm in Australia

 

[ricky lafleur]

Update ,I think there was a humidity issue, 2 that didn't hatch were light color, so 5 light and 4 dark. The wings have different colour coming through now

 

[NatJ]

Update ,I think there was a humidity issue, 2 that didn't hatch were light color, so 5 light and 4 dark. The wings have different colour coming through now

Recessive white would turn all colors to white, so the chick would not show that much color. Putting that with how many chicks are dark vs. light, I'm pretty sure recessive white is not causing the light chicks.

So the white comes from Dominant White turning the black into white. And then both the black and the white chicks are showing some gold in their coloring.

At this point, I'm confident the dark vs. light is not useful for telling sex.

Since there are several chicks showing gold, it seems likely that the Black Australorp hen was also gold, but we won't know for sure until there's a gold male old enough to tell sex by other means (would prove the hen has gold), or until we find a chick with silver (would be male, and would prove the hen has silver).