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TommyDaDelaware said:
I have sex links, and I have an honest question.. It may sound stupid (I know to me it does) But my dad said that these hens are "Sterile", meaning if we bred them to my del rooster (who is with them right now) that the eggs would never fertilize... Now to me Sterile means without any sort of reproduction. So if they WERE Sterile, they wouldn't even lay? Correct? So is there any possibility that if we put the eggs under a broody, they would hatch?? (I'm pretty sure they would, but my dad doesn't believe that the Red Sex links can reproduce... I've already had one hen go broody, but she was too slow to realize she had to sit on the eggs... we gave her a bunch of eggs in the nest box she was brooding in and she moved to the next one over....
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) and on that note, here's a pics of some of my girls. :)










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The eggs will be fertile but they don't breed true as they are hybrids. You will get several colors and combination. I done several experiments with breeding them. I have used RIR, Del. Here are some of the chicks I got I did breed them for several generations and the white gene was the dominant gene. There are some Red Sex LInks, Rhode Island Reds, Rhode Island Whites both Rose Comb and Single Comb and some 2nd generation from my RSL's. Click on the pics for larger pictures.








 
The eggs are fertile...that is unless your roo has fertility problems. If the problem is your roo, switching him out would cure the dud egg problem. However -- back to the basic premise -- basically you're breeding two different colors of chickens...much like breeding two different colors of dogs (you'll get puppies!). Some sex-links are a cross between Rhode Island Red and Rhode Island White: Same chicken, different colors and so picture that's like breeding black and yellow Labrador retrievers. Labrador retrievers can also breed with many other types of dogs for assorted puppies. All those dogs are fertile and left unneutered/unspayed and unsupervised will reproduce for ions of generations to come.

The times in which sterility occurs in the animal kingdom is, for instance, breeding two very distant branches of genus/species....say a donkey and a horse. The offspring will be sterile but will still exhibit the ability to breed. Or a donkey and a zebra. The equivalent might be breeding a chicken and a peacock or a chicken and an ostrich (don't go there with the visual....). Those offspring were they to occur *may* produce eggs and spermatozoa, but the eggs and sperm would be sterile due to mismatched DNA. The DNA combinations that make sex-link chickens or barnyard mixes are quite viable and not mismatched because chickens unto themselves are VERY closely related.

Hope that clears up the notions on sterile chickens.....
 
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Unless an animal is born without ovaries or testicles and coordinating appendages, the ability and desire to breed will be there due to the nature of hormones regardless of their defective-or-not chromosomes. Their ability to reproduce (create live offspring), however, would be compromised if the DNA construct of the egg or sperm were defective (as in the case of breeding a zebra/donkey to something else equine in nature or a chicken/peacock to another fowl). A donkey/horse cross would totally exhibit the ability to breed, but no matter how many barnyard matings occur there will be no pregnancy of a mule.
 
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