Sex links??

[chickmanna]

I have eggs in the incubator from the following crosses - Barnevelder Roo with Silver Penciled Rock hen and Silver Laced Wyandotte hen. The Barnevelder hens have stopped laying for the winter, so just checking out the young Roo for fertility. Will the chicks from the Wyandotte all have rose combs? Will the chicks be sex links?

 

[salt and pepper]

the wyandottes should have rose combs, and they should be sex links, but I'm not an expert

 

[tadkerson]

I have eggs in the incubator from the following crosses - Barnevelder Roo with Silver Penciled Rock hen and Silver Laced Wyandotte hen. The Barnevelder hens have stopped laying for the winter, so just checking out the young Roo for fertility. Will the chicks from the Wyandotte all have rose combs? Will the chicks be sex links?

Try reading this

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information

The answer is not a good red sex linked cross probably on of the worst for classifying male and female down.

Tim

 

[chickmanna]

Thanks Tim. Will the chicks be black with only color on the faces or more chipmunky?

 

[salt and pepper]

I would say one sex will have more distinct markings than the other, which sex is which, I don't know!!

 

[tadkerson]

Thanks Tim. Will the chicks be black with only color on the faces or more chipmunky?

They are going to be a dark color and the broken color on the face will be silver or red. They are brown at the E locus and that is not good for red sex links. Works fine on black sex links if heterozygous with birchen or extended black.

Tim