Silver laced wyandotte roo x buff orpington

[Ing88]

Hi, can anyone advise if a silver laced wyandotte rooster is crossed with a buff orpington hen are the chicks sex linked. If so how do I tell the difference?

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Hi, can anyone advise if a silver laced wyandotte rooster is crossed with a buff orpington hen are the chicks sex linked. If so how do I tell the difference?

No, they won’t be sexlinked.

 

[Ing88]

Hi, can anyone advise if a silver laced wyandotte rooster is crossed with a buff orpington hen are the chicks sex linked. If so how do I tell the difference?

Thanks for the reply, that saves me a lot of reading threads

 

[Finnie]

Technically, they will be sex-linked, but you might have to wait until they are older to be able to see the difference.

All the chicks will get a silver gene from their father, but the males will also get a gold gene from their mother. Silver is incompletely dominant to gold, so the boys will have some yellow leakage or tint in their white areas. The girls’ white will be just pure white.

 

[Ing88]

Technically, they will be sex-linked, but you might have to wait until they are older to be able to see the difference.

All the chicks will get a silver gene from their father, but the males will also get a gold gene from their mother. Silver is incompletely dominant to gold, so the boys will have some yellow leakage or tint in their white areas. The girls’ white will be just pure white.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Technically, they will be sex-linked, but you might have to wait until they are older to be able to see the difference.

All the chicks will get a silver gene from their father, but the males will also get a gold gene from their mother. Silver is incompletely dominant to gold, so the boys will have some yellow leakage or tint in their white areas. The girls’ white will be just pure white.

But they can’t be sexed at hatch.

 

[JedJackson]

No, silver rooster over buff hen won't give sex linked offspring. Buff rooster over silver hen would, though.

 

[Finnie]

but you might have to wait until they are older to be able to see the difference.

But they can’t be sexed at hatch.

Correct. But technically, they are still sex-linked genes that make a visual difference between males and females, but the difference shows up later.

I once hatched chicks from a gold-based hen with a silver spangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben rooster. I thought I could detect a darker yellow down color on some of them. I should have marked those to see if I was correct. There were only 3 chicks and I think I was right, but I couldn’t swear that I didn’t lose track of who was who.

 

[MegTheHenEggQueen]

I hatched both roosters and hens with these parents. I actually had a rooster and hen look the same! Strange. But did get some yellow offspring as well. Here is the fastest pic I could find to attach what they look like but it’s a partial picture sorry. Was taking pics of their combs bc of frostbite.

 

[MegTheHenEggQueen]

I hatched both roosters and hens with these parents. I actually had a rooster and hen look the same! Strange. But did get some yellow offspring as well. Here is the fastest pic I could find to attach what they look like but it’s a partial picture sorry. Was taking pics of their combs bc of frostbite.

This was the only one I kept from that combo of parents!