Sexlinks

[Somshine]

Generally I am pretty good at research and understanding things. But I find the chicken genetics so confusing no matter how many times I read them. I looked through the threads and haven't been able to find my situation. It's always a cemani roo. But I have a cemani hen. I have one swedish flower roo and one Blue Americana roo (father could be either). Would this produce sex-linked chicks? I purposely hatched two out of my incubator. One came out marbled and is clearly a roo. The other came out all black and appears to be a hen. Now she has snuck off and hatched some of her own and it looks to be they are the same. Some marbled and some solid black.

 

[Amer]

No, sexlinkage only works if you have a fibro male and a female with light shanks.

 

[Somshine]

Thank you so much!!!!! Was getting so frustrated trying to find this answer!

 

[Somshine]

So let me ask you one more thing. Because one rooster is a swedish flower, one is an Ameracauna and mom is a cemani can they be wing-sexed? I know it needs to be a fast feathering father with a slow feathering mother. But I can't find what these breeds are. And they never show up in the examples of fast or slow feathering.

 

[Amer]

There is only one breed that I know of with slow feathering and that is the exhibition Plymouth Rock. Aside from that, it’s out there but it’s much rarer than you think.