The breed cannot be feather-sexed, but they can be auto-sexed. Welsummer x Light Sussex should produce sex-linked chicks, so I'd say that it's safe to say you have all females.
What would males of this cross be? Im hatching a female Welsummer with a light sussex roo. Does anyone have pics of what the chicks would look like?
What would males of this cross be? Im hatching a female Welsummer with a light sussex roo. Does anyone have pics of what the chicks would look like?
This cross would not be self sexing. In this case the Sussex male's light coloring would dominate. This kind of cross is not generally recommended. :/
I found a decent link by searching Welsex chickens:
This is a typical sex linked cross. Any gold plumage rooster (eg Welsummer, Barnevelder, Wyandotte, Rhode Island Red ) put over a silver plumaged pullet (eg Light Sussex , Silver Wyandotte, White Wyandotte, Silver Campine, White Orpington ) will produce sex linked chicks. The chicks will be easily identifiable, as pullets will carry the gold gene colouring from dad, being a dark buff colour as day olds . Whilst cockerels will carry the silver gene like the mum and be a light yellow.
This post is from last May, so it would be great if OP would come back and update. In reading carefully, they did not ask about crossing red over silver, they crossed silver over red. Or else they miss-typed. Would I be correct in guessing that crossing silver over red would in fact yield all buff chicks i.e. no sex linkage?
