UPDATE! CHICKS HATCHED!!!RIR Crossed with Dominate White

[Yvonne37894]

What would I get if I crossed a RIR rooster with White Plymouth Rock hens

go to post on page 4 !!!

 

[Chris09]

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White Plymouth Rocks shouldn't be Dominate White.
If you cross a R.I. Red Rooster over a White Plymouth Rocks Hen you should get Sex-link offspring. (White/Yellow chicks a young roosters and the Red chicks are young pullets)

Chris

 

[Fred's Hens]

You'd get something like this.

 

[spiritdance]

Quote:
White Plymouth Rocks shouldn't be Dominate White.
If you cross a R.I. Red Rooster over a White Plymouth Rocks Hen you should get Sex-link offspring. (White/Yellow chicks a young roosters and the Red chicks are young pullets)

Chris

Isn't that just if the RI whites are silver based? I thought there were some lines that aren't (hatchery lines mostly) and wouldn't reliably produce sexlinks. Am I confused here? I went with Delawares for my sexlink breeders specifically because of this.

I just had to edit and add that now I wouldn't take anything for my Delis ... they are AWESOME!

 

[heathersboers]

When we did that cross. ..we got a white chicken with buff..reddish colored streaks...kinda like a amberlink...

 

[Cowgirl71]

I thought that White Rocks most times don't carry silver?

 

[Yvonne37894]

I'm new at genetics !!
I thought the hens could be either resessive or dominate.
based on their breeding
In a post that I found it said not to use white for crossing to get sexlinks

 

[spiritdance]

IDK, in my understanding you get gold sexlinks from crossing a silver-based white hen with a red roo. Some lines of RI Whites (or so I thought) carry the silver gene and others don't. I do know that when my red cochin roo got into my white cochin pen, I DID NOT get sexlinks from the cross ... they were white with red bleed through and a bit of black (almost columbian looking) and vice versa in both genders. I know cochins are wh/wh, so maybe that's the difference ...

 

[FireTigeris]

the grey is dirt... the red is 'leakage'

this IS a Silkie * RIR (white silkie roo)

 

[Cowgirl71]

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I thought so too, but then "RAREROO" educated me... There's dominant white, recessive white, and silver. Silver is what you need to make Red Sexlinks.

The post you saw was probably referring to Black Sexlinks... White roosters most times won't work for making Black Sexlinks.