Silver breeds with colorful eggs

[The Moonshiner]

So your goal is using a CCL rooster over various silver based hens to produce sex links that then will lay eggs that can be identified to the individual hens?
I think that's going to be a challenge for you.

 

[Mr. Tburg]

So your goal is using a CCL rooster over various silver based hens to produce sex links that then will lay eggs that can be identified to the individual hens?
I think that's going to be a challenge for you.

No just want sex links in case I decide to hatch some and colorful eggs for my fridge I already have ccl rooster and hen and want to be able to identify what eggs are pure ccl and which ones are mixed

 

[Mr. Tburg]

It does work. Your pullets will be much brighter in colour than their sire is, because they will have only one copy of the ig dilution gene, which changes your rooster's colour from gold to cream. This should make them easy to tell apart from the silver males.

I'd get silver Wheaten Ameraucanas. (Usually just called silver ameraucanas) for blue eggs.

Silver Birchen Marans will also carry silver. (Birchen almost always refers to a silver-carrying bird, but it can also refer to gold.) for chocolate.

Any white Columbian bird carries silver.

Does lacing interfere with sexlinking?
Do I need to stay away from all white hens?I'm pretty sure I read I need to stay away from barring and cuckoo.
I'm looking for a white egg layer
Would a silver laced polish hen work?
Or
Appenzeller Spitzhauben
Lakenvelder
Silver spangled hamburg

 

[sylviethecochin]

Does lacing interfere with sexlinking?

Only in that the chick down is going to be mostly black, and so might make it hard to tell whether the chick is gold or silver.

Do I need to stay away from all white hens?I'm pretty sure I read I need to stay away from barring and cuckoo.

The problem is that there are at least three different genes that make white, silver among them. Dominant White (Leghorns) is not a sexlinked colour. Cross any other chicken with a white leghorn, and the first generation chicks will be white, making sexlinkage impossible.

Barring is not silver either--it's actually an absence of pigment in the white areas, and while sexlinked, has nothing to do with silver/gold sexlinkage. It also wouldn't work because your rooster is barred. For sexlinked barring to work, the mother has to be barred and the rooster unbarred. Barring is the same gene as cuckoo.

I'm looking for a white egg layer
Would a silver laced polish hen work?
Or
Appenzeller Spitzhauben
Lakenvelder
Silver spangled hamburg

Any of those should work.

 

[Mr. Tburg]

Only in that the chick down is going to be mostly black, and so might make it hard to tell whether the chick is gold or silver.


The problem is that there are at least three different genes that make white, silver among them. Dominant White (Leghorns) is not a sexlinked colour. Cross any other chicken with a white leghorn, and the first generation chicks will be white, making sexlinkage impossible.

Barring is not silver either--it's actually an absence of pigment in the white areas, and while sexlinked, has nothing to do with silver/gold sexlinkage. It also wouldn't work because your rooster is barred. For sexlinked barring to work, the mother has to be barred and the rooster unbarred. Barring is the same gene as cuckoo.


Any of those should work.

Thank you

 

[Mr. Tburg]

Only in that the chick down is going to be mostly black, and so might make it hard to tell whether the chick is gold or silver.


The problem is that there are at least three different genes that make white, silver among them. Dominant White (Leghorns) is not a sexlinked colour. Cross any other chicken with a white leghorn, and the first generation chicks will be white, making sexlinkage impossible.

Barring is not silver either--it's actually an absence of pigment in the white areas, and while sexlinked, has nothing to do with silver/gold sexlinkage. It also wouldn't work because your rooster is barred. For sexlinked barring to work, the mother has to be barred and the rooster unbarred. Barring is the same gene as cuckoo.


Any of those should work.

So the silver laced polish would be the least desirable of the ones I mentioned due to black down.
do white polish present the same problem as the white leghorn?
Any other white egg layer you would suggest?

 

[sylviethecochin]

So the silver laced polish would be the least desirable of the ones I mentioned due to black down.
do white polish present the same problem as the white leghorn?
Any other white egg layer you would suggest?

Silver laced Polish would work. It just wouldn't be quite as easy to sex as with the other breeds mentioned. They are the best egg-producer of the breeds mentioned.

I believe white Polish are dominant white, but I'm not certain. They could be recessive white. I'm not a Polish person. In either case, they're not suitable.

@The Moonshiner breeds Silver Duckwing Leghorns. I've got a thing for high egg production, so if he'll sell you some, that's what I would use. But I'm pretty sure he doesn't sell.