Using White Leghorns to create sex-links

[chickenpluckeroo7]

I would like to develop a sex-link using White Leghorns. I have available to cross with them, RIR, Cookoo Maran, Barred Rocks, and Prod. Reds. Are any of these birds feasible to mate with the leghorns to create sexlinked chicks? Chickenplucker

 

[tadkerson]

You can not use a leghorn to do a color sex link. You can use them to do a feather sex link. See the following threads.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=216606

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=220266

You will cross a male of any of the breeds to female white leghorns.

Tim

 

[Krys109uk]

Here is a link to Missouri edu comparing both pullets & cockerel chicks.

http://animalsciences.missouri.edu/reprod/ReproTech/Feathersex/sld001.htm

The male needs to have rapid feathering (k+), such as leghorns & the female needs to be late feathering (K) such as RIR.

All female offspring will be only rapid feathering being k+/-. All male offspring will have inherited a late feathering gene from their mother & a rapid featering gene from their father & will be later feathering K/k+.