Turken hen to silkie roo sex link question. Please help!

[Jmommy2008]

Ok I know if you breed a naked neck (turken) to a silkie the babies are supposed to be sex link by their skin color. Black skin means hen and pink skin means boy. What do I do if one is born half and half?! I’ll post a pic of my newly hatched chick. It’s lower half is all blue/black skin and it’s neck is pink. Will it darken the rest of the way meaning this is a hen? Is is this baby going to be a mystery?

 

[sourland]

It will be interesting to see how it develops.

 

[Jmommy2008]

It’s not letting me upload a pic

 

[cherrynberry]

Ok I know if you breed a naked neck (turken) to a silkie the babies are supposed to be sex link by their skin color. Black skin means hen and pink skin means boy. What do I do if one is born half and half?! I’ll post a pic of my newly hatched chick. It’s lower half is all blue/black skin and it’s neck is pink. Will it darken the rest of the way meaning this is a hen? Is is this baby going to be a mystery?

Update?

 

[crittercaretech]

Ok I know if you breed a naked neck (turken) to a silkie the babies are supposed to be sex link by their skin color. Black skin means hen and pink skin means boy. What do I do if one is born half and half?! I’ll post a pic of my newly hatched chick. It’s lower half is all blue/black skin and it’s neck is pink. Will it darken the rest of the way meaning this is a hen? Is is this baby going to be a mystery?

 

[crittercaretech]

I raise Turkens and have not crossed them with Silkies but have crossed them on Ayam Cemani to add the fibro characteristics. It is funny that you mentioned having a half black skin half pink skinned chick. yours is top and bottom mine is effected left to right.

I have never heard of the skin color being sex linked with the fibro characteristics seen in both Silkies and Ayam Cemani's. I am certianly not saying it's not true just interesting and open to learning new things. I have hatched birds of both sexes with dark and light skin crossing AC and Turkens. I'm not sure what the different would be with Silkies and Turkens. I have had chicks of this cross fill in lighter areas that were pink at hatch with the Cemani cross haven't had any as clearly divided in half as the chick I posted but it will be interesting to see what happens with our half and half babies.

 

[Jmommy2008]

Update?

I’ll post a pic when I can get one from my friend I ended up giving the baby too but uploading a pic when it was little so you can see the mix of colored skin