White chick from black hen and orange rooster

[Molpet]

Rsl hens are red and roosters have a lot of white
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[ilovemychickens2000]

I stand corrected, RSL males remain mostly white, so yours is a different breed.

Oh ok nevermind then , Hes probably some sort of mixed barnyard tbh

 

[50-45-1]

I was thinking that RSL was in the roosters background. Not that he was 1gen product.
I am to understand that the sex link coloring does not hold true for following breeding of the results.
In other words sex links are not a breed, but a cross breed. So their offspring can look like either.
Let me know experts if I am wrong?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Oh ok nevermind then , Hes probably some sort of mixed barnyard tbh

Exactly. People get so hung up on breeds and mixes that they think every chicken is a designer mix. I guess it is that "mine are so special they have to be special". Unless you know some specifics of their background they are just chickens.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I am to understand that the sex link coloring does not hold true for following breeding of the results.

The genetics are there, but since the genetics are mixed you can't be sure what will get passed down to a specific chick. I'll try to explain it this way. You can get a red sex link with a rooster that is pure for the "gold" gene and a hen that has the "silver" gene. Any pullets from that mix will only receive the gold gene from their father, they get nothing at that gene pair from their mother. Any cockerel from that pairing will get both a recessive gold from his father and a silver from his mother. Since the silver is dominant he will show silver, not gold. So if you can see the difference at hatch you can tell the sex. But if the chicks are solid black or solid white you cannot see the difference.

If you then breed the cockerel, he will give some of his offspring the gold gene, the others get the silver gene. You do not know which he will give to any specific chick.

You cannot make the same type of sex links from sex links, you do not know how the genetics will get passed down. But you know what you might get.

In other words sex links are not a breed, but a cross breed. So their offspring can look like either.

Breed has nothing to do with sex links. Nada, zilch, nothing. You do not need breeds to make sex links. For red sex links it is about down color at hatch. For black sex links it is about barring. It doesn't matter if they are purebred breeds or barnyard mixes as long as the genetics are set up correctly and you know they are set up correctly.