What kind of chicks will I get from these crosses...

[ourfeathers]

Hi everyone! Sorry if I am not posting in the right thread, I tried to find one more suited to my question but this was as close as I could find. Anyway, I have a cuckoo lemon orpington & leghorn mix rooster. I have a rhode island red, Plymouth barred rock, easter egger, Golden Laced Wyandotte, and Buff orpington hens. I am incubating a few of their eggs currently. I am just curious on what type of chickens I will get, will they be sex-link? This is my first time hatching eggs, so I'm curious. If they are sex-link, how do you tell the difference in the feathers when they hatch? Thanks!!

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

They will be mixed breed. I don't believe any will be sex linked.

 

[Texas Transplant]

It depends on whether your leghorn mix rooster is dominant white or recessive, sometimes it's complicated with that breed. There is a color genetics calculator that can be helpful.

https://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html
There is also the comb type of each breed at play:

https://poultry.extension.org/articles/poultry-anatomy/poultry-genetics-an-introduction/

I don't think they will be sexlinked because the rooster carries a barring gene (I think it needs to be the hen, but, I'm no expert).