Sexing by color

[tiffanya]

I admit to knowing very little about how poultry genetics works and my understanding of sex linked birds is very vague. I have a chicken recently hatched out from two purebred bird. A speckled sussex rooster and either a white or buff orpington hen. The chick is primarily black with some white (looks pretty similar to a barred rock chick actually). What crosses allow you to determine the sex of the chick by color? Any chance with mine?

 

[CarolynF]

Here's a link that might help you, it discusses several combinations.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

No chance with the combination you describe. The hen needs to carry the dominant allele of a sex-linked gene (usually silver or barring) and the male needs to be pure for the recessive allele of that same gene (gold or not barred).

 

[tiffanya]

Thanks you very much for helping it make a bit more sense to me.