white leghorn rooster x brown egg layer

Wouldn't eat or drink even after trying many times showing them. They usually follow what the older chicks are doing. They will run with the other chicks but they don't lay down and just stand there and fall asleep. The other chicks will move to the other annex of the brooder and they just continue to stand there. When I wake them they run to the other chicks and it starts all over again. I noticed the symptoms in the evening and they would be dead in the morning.
 
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Not Really, Most White Leghorn strains are just Domiant white and dont carry the silver genes, so someone would have to find a strain of Silver Gened White Leghorns to make sexlinks with them, other wise the chicks of both sexes would just be white with black Dots. Like illustrated by a california white.

History[edit]​

The California Gray was developed in California in the 1930s by Horace Dryden in Modesto, California.[4]: 432  His aim was to produce a dual-purpose chicken that would be suitable for meat production and would also lay large white eggs. By cross-breeding of Barred Plymouth Rock and White Leghorn birds, an autosexing breed with barred gray adult plumage was produced. As in other autosexing breeds, the sex of chicks can be distinguished at about a day old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gray

California White chickens are excellent layers for small and medium sized flocks. They lay white eggs, are fast-growing and are very quiet. As a cross between a California Grey male and a White Leghorn female, they have a superior hybrid vigor that results in excellent livability.
https://duncanspoultry.com/californ...xcellent,that results in excellent livability.
 
I crossed RIR rooster over White Leghron hens and they laid very very light brown, cream, or "off white" colored eggs.

Both sexes hatched out the same color (white with black spots) but the males matured with red leakage on their wings, while the females stayed white with random black dots. Too bad you can't color sex them as chicks. The pullets were very good layers
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History[edit]​

The California Gray was developed in California in the 1930s by Horace Dryden in Modesto, California.[4]: 432  His aim was to produce a dual-purpose chicken that would be suitable for meat production and would also lay large white eggs. By cross-breeding of Barred Plymouth Rock and White Leghorn birds, an autosexing breed with barred gray adult plumage was produced. As in other autosexing breeds, the sex of chicks can be distinguished at about a day old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gray

California White chickens are excellent layers for small and medium sized flocks. They lay white eggs, are fast-growing and are very quiet. As a cross between a California Grey male and a White Leghorn female, they have a superior hybrid vigor that results in excellent livability.
https://duncanspoultry.com/californ...xcellent,that results in excellent livability.
 
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OK Thats confusing, so I guess I have been telling everyone wrong about that part, but when when you explain it like that, it does make sense. So since they are not showing gold through the white, then they are silver ? But in the case of like Red Pyle for example, which I know are gold gened but since they are showing the gold through the dom white then they are gold gened ? If so then that makes more sence but then what are the "incorrect genes" that you say they are lacking to make sexlinks if its not silver ?

Either way I was right about them not making sexlinks but I'm glad you corrected me but I would like to know the reason then why they cant so I can pass the RIGHT info on to the next person.

Parent birds can not carry dominant white (white leghorn) to produce black sex linked chicks. As you know, the chicks will be white and not show a white spot on the head.

White leghorns are extended black or birchen at the E locus- these alleles will produce black chicks which will not show the red or white color in the chick down in a red sex linked chick.

Sometimes, if the genetype is correct, a person can cross a dominat white female (silver) with a gold male and get white chicks as males and white chicks with red faces as females. This can be done but you have to have specific genes in both patents to get this type of red sex linked cross to work.

I believe a white leghorn female (birchen at E locus) crossed with a buff orpington male will work as a red sex linked cross. I am not sure what the percentages would be in male verses female. I have never made the cross with white leghorns but I still believe it would work. I have made the cross with another dominant white bird that worked.


Tim

History[edit]​

The California Gray was developed in California in the 1930s by Horace Dryden in Modesto, California.[4]: 432  His aim was to produce a dual-purpose chicken that would be suitable for meat production and would also lay large white eggs. By cross-breeding of Barred Plymouth Rock and White Leghorn birds, an autosexing breed with barred gray adult plumage was produced. As in other autosexing breeds, the sex of chicks can be distinguished at about a day old.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gray

California White chickens are excellent layers for small and medium sized flocks. They lay white eggs, are fast-growing and are very quiet. As a cross between a California Grey male and a White Leghorn female, they have a superior hybrid vigor that results in excellent livability.
https://duncanspoultry.com/californ...xcellent,that results in excellent livability.
 

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