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Thanks!
So- do you think since dad has that partial barring- are the babies sex-linked with the barring, or not? Otheriwse all of the not-yellow chicks would be boys
If the dad is the one with barring, they won't be sexlinked. Riley's dad was a BR. I've never had a non-barred rooster over a BR hen, not in recent years. The chicks I hatched from my Del rooster over EE hen appear sexlinked, though genetics folks say they cannot be. The females look like Dels with muffs and beards (usually) and the males look, well, unusual, to say the least, with lots of red on them.
If I understand correctly, and I could be wrong here, to produce sex linked chicks the bird has to have 2 barring genes (like a BR). Chicks produced from a BR and something else (non barred) would have only 1 barring gene (like my project birds).
Thanks!
So- do you think since dad has that partial barring- are the babies sex-linked with the barring, or not? Otheriwse all of the not-yellow chicks would be boys
If the dad is the one with barring, they won't be sexlinked. Riley's dad was a BR. I've never had a non-barred rooster over a BR hen, not in recent years. The chicks I hatched from my Del rooster over EE hen appear sexlinked, though genetics folks say they cannot be. The females look like Dels with muffs and beards (usually) and the males look, well, unusual, to say the least, with lots of red on them.
If I understand correctly, and I could be wrong here, to produce sex linked chicks the bird has to have 2 barring genes (like a BR). Chicks produced from a BR and something else (non barred) would have only 1 barring gene (like my project birds).
