What is my rooster a mix of? Can a mixed breed rooster create a sex link?

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Yes, I do have other roosters, but I was so careful to make sure only Wild Thang had contact with these two hens so I would get RIRs and sex links. Maybe I didn't wait long enough. How long is a long time? More than a month? Because yes, Wild Thang's son mated with the RIR over a month before I started saving eggs. But he is also a red rooster with a single comb. His mother is a Golden Laced Wyandotte (she has a rose comb), and he has her lacing on his breast. This is Baelfire:

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How quickly can the sperm get into the next egg? Because I had a staggered hatch. All the eggs from the first part of the hatch I thought would be WIld Thang's (I pretty much quarantined the two hens with the rooster for over a month), but I had another rooster get loose around two days before I was done collecting for the second batch of eggs, and I know he fathered several of those chicks. But I was sure this red rooster chick was from the first part of the hatch, so I didn't think he would be the father. This is the other rooster, Patriot:

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Did he somehow manage to father some of the first batch of eggs too?!!

Patriot is a silver/gold split (meaning he could have red sons with a red hen) and he has a rose comb. As for the answer to your last question, I don’t know.

 

[BesideStillWaters]

Patriot is a silver/gold split (meaning he could have red sons with a red hen) and he has a rose comb. As for the answer to your last question, I don’t know.

Thanks - if the other two couldn't have a red rose-comb son, then I guess somehow Patriot did get with my RIR hen. Sneaky little guy. So much for my sex links. I wondered if something was wrong because out of 15 chicks, only one was white like I expected a sex link male to be and I knew it would be like winning the lottery if I got all girls from my SLW.

 

[RoosterWhisperer]

Thanks, I suspected he was. (Almost hoped he was, that little thing pecks and bites. ) I really hope Goldie is a girl! Just posted a different thread for the chick genders. All 15 of them.

Your welcome! Me too! Hey, thats awesome, I might have to check it out!

 

[RoosterWhisperer]

Yes, I do have other roosters, but I was so careful to make sure only Wild Thang had contact with these two hens so I would get RIRs and sex links. Maybe I didn't wait long enough. How long is a long time? More than a month? Because yes, Wild Thang's son mated with the RIR over a month before I started saving eggs. But he is also a red rooster with a single comb. His mother is a Golden Laced Wyandotte (she has a rose comb), and he has her lacing on his breast. This is Baelfire:

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How quickly can the sperm get into the next egg? Because I had a staggered hatch. All the eggs from the first part of the hatch I thought would be WIld Thang's (I pretty much quarantined the two hens with the rooster for over a month), but I had another rooster get loose around two days before I was done collecting for the second batch of eggs, and I know he fathered several of those chicks. But I was sure this red rooster chick was from the first part of the hatch, so I didn't think he would be the father. This is the other rooster, Patriot:

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Did he somehow manage to father some of the first batch of eggs too?!!

Goldie is definitely a hen, is that her in the second photo? Patriot is a really hot looking roo! And so it the young RIR mix here! What breed is patiot!?

 

[RoosterWhisperer]

Goldie is definitely a hen, is that her in the second photo? Patriot is a really hot looking roo! And so it the young RIR mix here! What breed is patiot!?

Sorry I get excited over pretty and handsome roos and hens!

 

[RoosterWhisperer]

Thanks - if the other two couldn't have a red rose-comb son, then I guess somehow Patriot did get with my RIR hen. Sneaky little guy. So much for my sex links. I wondered if something was wrong because out of 15 chicks, only one was white like I expected a sex link male to be and I knew it would be like winning the lottery if I got all girls from my SLW.

Eh! Thats good sexing skilll right there!

 

[BesideStillWaters]

Goldie is definitely a hen, is that her in the second photo? Patriot is a really hot looking roo! And so it the young RIR mix here! What breed is patiot!?

So glad Goldie is a hen!

No, that is Banshee from last July's hatch. Same parents though!

Thanks! I love my boys but I can't keep any more. I kept three from July's hatch.

Patriot is the same mix as Goldie - RIR + SLW. He's the male version of the sex link. He is amazing. Not aggressive, beautiful, and really smart!

Sorry I get excited over pretty and handsome roos and hens!

No worries - me too.

 

[BesideStillWaters]

So... is it normal for sex links to not be exactly alike in color? It is weird that some are more brown / red and others are bright gold? Are you guys thinking that my rooster Wild Thang IS a RIR?

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

So... is it normal for sex links to not be exactly alike in color? It is weird that some are more brown / red and others are bright gold? Are you guys thinking that my rooster Wild Thang IS a RIR?

Looks like it. Since his chicks are mixes, it makes sense that there’s some variation in coloring.

 

[BesideStillWaters]

Looks like it. Since his chicks are mixes, it makes sense that there’s some variation in coloring.

That's great to know, thank you!