What colors would I get...

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

if I crossed a patridge silkie hen and a red cochin roo? I have one chick who is a cross from these two and he/she is partridge colored with pink skin, black nose, and 5 toes per foot. Just curious if this would be the norm from this crossing.

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

Anyone?

 

[NixNoodleNumbat]

Sorry, I have no idea.

 

[tinychicky]

if you kept hatching the chicks, their would be some variant or colors, but not too much. other than that, i don't know.

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

Darn. I was hoping that maybe certain traits or colors would indicate sex...I know that is wishful thinking, since I don't think the sex link rules apply with cochins or silkies...but anyway, thanks!

 

[Henferno]

BigDaddy'sGurl :

Darn. I was hoping that maybe certain traits or colors would indicate sex...I know that is wishful thinking, since I don't think the sex link rules apply with cochins or silkies...but anyway, thanks!

Sex-link rules depend entirely on color, not on breed.

I once crossed a partridge rock hen with a white cochin roo, and most of the daughters were false dun or silver pencilled. The sons were entirely a brassy pencilled color, almost like an ugly duckwing. Red-partridge may give you false red quail or black-pencilled-red, there are a lot of things possible with those two!​

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

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Sex-link rules depend entirely on color, not on breed.

I once crossed a partridge rock hen with a white cochin roo, and most of the daughters were false dun or silver pencilled. The sons were entirely a brassy pencilled color, almost like an ugly duckwing. Red-partridge may give you false red quail or black-pencilled-red, there are a lot of things possible with those two!

Thanks so much! I'm glad you said that about the color not the breed...here's another question you can maybe answer: i bred my red cochin roo to my BR hen and ended up with some chicks that looked identical to black "stars" or basically, black sex link pullets. I sold them when they were a few weeks old, but would there have been a way, based on color, to know their sex when they began to feather out without looking at combs/wattles or feather shape?

 

[Year of the Rooster]

BigDaddy'sGurl :

Quote:
Sex-link rules depend entirely on color, not on breed.

I once crossed a partridge rock hen with a white cochin roo, and most of the daughters were false dun or silver pencilled. The sons were entirely a brassy pencilled color, almost like an ugly duckwing. Red-partridge may give you false red quail or black-pencilled-red, there are a lot of things possible with those two!

Thanks so much! I'm glad you said that about the color not the breed...here's another question you can maybe answer: i bred my red cochin roo to my BR hen and ended up with some chicks that looked identical to black "stars" or basically, black sex link pullets. I sold them when they were a few weeks old, but would there have been a way, based on color, to know their sex when they began to feather out without looking at combs/wattles or feather shape?​

You should've been able to know when they hatched. A Red bird over a Barred bird is exactly how black sex-links are made. The females should've been all black at hatch and feather out black with red in the breast area, and the males would've been born with a white dot on their head and feather out barred.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

Careful, ..... you could get a PLAID chicken!

 

[draye]

mr. birdaholic :

Careful, ..... you could get a PLAID chicken!

That would be so awesome!​