What are Red Sex Links and Black Sex Links???

[DurangoCal]

What are Red Sex Links and Black Sex Links? Would someone be so kind as to explain please? Thanks in advance!

 

[ThePamperedPullet]

Black Sex Links are a Red roo over a Barred Rock hen. The roo can either be a Rhode Island or a New Hampshire. The female chicks come out all black and the males will have a white spot on their heads. The males are generally culled because only the females are really recognized as the males look like a Barred Rock when grown. The Hens will grow up to be black with gold in their hackles. They are single generational which is to say if you breed the hens the offspring revert to the Barred Rock gene.
Red sex-links are a cross between a Rhode Island Red or New Hampshire rooster and a White Rock, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Rhode Island White or Delaware hen. The male chicks are white and the females are red and white or red.

 

[Chris09]

Black Sex-Link can be most any color Male over a Barred hen.
Roosters can be Extended Black (E/E), Birchen (E^R/E^R), Brown (E^b), Wheaten (e^Wh and e^y) and Wild Type (e+)
Red Sex-Link are a Gold gene Male over a Silver gene Female. (There is a lot of combination that will produce a Red Sex-Link)
Here is a great link about Sex-Link's
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=261208

Chris

 

[ThePamperedPullet]

Thanks Chris. Great link for the technical side of it.

 

[shelleyd2008]

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Black sex-links can also be over a laced-wyandotte hen