What Makes a Sex Link Chick?

[RAREROO]

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Oh cool, That pullet does look just like mine too

 

[Firearia]

Wow! Thanks guys! I will respond to each post you all made some time tomorrow. I just don't have the time right now. Quickly though my roos are 2 BOs and the BRxCM cross... Doesnt look like I have much to work with!

 

[spish]

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i most certainly did

early mornings are not the best time to try and type
i am by all means no expert in sex link making, i simple said as is my understanding....from what i had read online, thus the info i had read must be also wrong?

 

[silkydragon]

i have a rir and cornishxmeatbird that im hoping will make sexlinks
besides that i have a columbian cochin roo and buff hen would they make cochin sexlinks or no?

 

[Cowgirl71]

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I think RAREROO tried making sex-links with Cornish X hens, and it didn't work. Crossing a columbian cochin roo with a buff hen will NOT make sex-links.

If you were to reverse the cross and use a buff roo with a columbian hen then it would work.

 

[RAREROO]

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I think RAREROO tried making sex-links with Cornish X hens, and it didn't work. Crossing a columbian cochin roo with a buff hen will NOT make sex-links.

If you were to reverse the cross and use a buff roo with a columbian hen then it would work.

Yep, I have tried that cross befor and it didnt work unfortunately. I breed a meat type hen with a RIR, Buff Orp, and even a Black Aussie roo ( even though I know that wouldnt have made sexlinks anyway) but they all came out the same, white with black dots, just like if you were breeding with a White Leghorn. So they didnt make sexlinks, but if you are wanting to hatch healthy, lower maintainance meat birds, they woud be GREAT for that becuase the chicks I did hatch grew very quickly when raised just like regular chickens and were some very meaty birds without the gluttony and leg problems associated with the regular meat birds. ( And I side note, one of the pullets that I kept that was from the Buff orp roo as a father developed a lot of buff leakage and ended up being a BEAUTIFUL buff and white bird.) I kept her around for a while just cuz she was so big and pretty. Hopefully our TSC will have some more Cornish X birds again this spring and I will get some and use the hens to cross with probably Sussex roos to make some more meat birds to raise.

And also like Cowgirl said. A Columbian roo on Buff hens will not make sexlinks, the reversed cross does. That cross will give Columbian colored pullets and roos that look columbian but with some yellow leakage becuase they will be split for gold and silver genes.

 

[RAREROO]

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i most certainly did

early mornings are not the best time to try and type
i am by all means no expert in sex link making, i simple said as is my understanding....from what i had read online, thus the info i had read must be also wrong?

OK That makes more sence and if my earlier responces to this sounded rude, I'm sorry, that was not my intention to be rude but when I see where it may have sounded that way.

But yeah here is a lot of wrong info online espcially about the certain brand names. There is no way to track down the exact cross for those because the companies making them are not going to tell you the truth about how to make them becuase they dont want you to breed their own, they want you to buy from them, make sense. Did you notice how Cowgirl just simple said Red Sexlinks or Black Sexlinks when she was listing off all those she listed ? Thats how it should be too keep from all kinds of confusion that is associated with all those brand names, becuase they all amount to about the same thing.

The ones you said were
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OK with the first ones, thats not your fault either, thats the incorrect or overgeneralizing info online becuase those that tell you that the sexlinks are made with White Rock hens dont tell you that there are only certain strains of white rock hens that have the right genes that work ( Some White Rocks may be masking Barring, Black, Partridge, ect and they wouldnt work.) So that info online leaves people thinking that any white rock hen with a red roo will work. So in general its best to stay away from Recessive white breeds for making sexlinks becuase you never know what they are masking.

The second one with the SLW hens is also false online info and I've seen it in a book too, but by Cinnamon Queens we think of the single combed red and white birds that Cackle sales and the white in them comes from Dominant white and SLWs have Sexlinked Silver, not dom white so as shown in my sexlinks and the ones that Cowgirl posted in the link, the offspring from the SLW hens will have Black tails and the Rose combs and so are not the Cinnamon Queens like the ones pictured on Cackles site even though I belive their Cinnamon Queens, Golden Commets and Red Stars are the same birds with just different names.

The third one, If you meant RIW instead of RIR, then you are right there. You can see what that cross would look like from mine on the Sexlink thread.

And in the fourth one, the Delaware hens are right but the production Red hens wont make sexlinks.

So Sorry again if I sounded rude but it looks like you did, like many others, pick up some wrong info online. Hopefully those explainations helped.

 

[spish]

many many thanks for clearing that up for me..im always up for a bit of learning

but now i have a question for you...can i make some sex link chinks out of any of these chickens?

i have

an orpington roo - he's a cuckoo colour x split 'parelgrijs' (i think that means hes grey from colour with barring)
a couple of roos with mostly red colouring but are not RIR (their mum was a rir, dad was an ee)
cuckoo marans roos
australorp roos
brahma partridge roo
barred rock roo


barred rock hens
orpington hens (black)
brahma hens (patridge ones and black ones)
RIR hen
lots of production red hens
marans hens (cuckoo and black copper)
an white chicken but unsure what she is


im thinking the best bet is the red roos with BR hens? or try and get hold of a rir roo?

 

[Mtn Cur]

spish- I have had a lot of luck with RIR X Delaware. It's a easy "no brainer" cross and the temperments are acceptable.

I personally don't like barred rocks, and the black sexlinks that I have are just as aggressive. My experience ( which is limited ) the RSL are better about getting along with the other chickens. Good luck.

 

[Cowgirl71]

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Assuming these are all purebreds, your Partridge Brahma roo and your Australorp roo are the only roos that would reliably produce sex-link chicks. Your RIR x EE roos possibly could make sex-links, but since EEs are mutts there's no way to know for sure other than just trying it and seeing what you get. You can cross your Aussie or Brahma roo with your Barred Rock and Cuckoo Maran hens and make black sex-links.