Will the chicks be red sex links?

[Kearaaaa23]

Hello everyone, would a Rhode Island roo over a Rhode Island hen result in sex links? Or would a thode island roo over a ISA brown be sex links? Please help as I’m trying to manage flock breeds and get auto sexing breeds.

 

[Rdh1223]

Ri roo over RI hen is straight heritage breed so not sex link.

Not sure about the RI roo over Isa brown since the hen is already hybrid, you might get some sex links I guess or not, need someone more knowledgeable than me

 

[NatJ]

Hello everyone, would a Rhode Island roo over a Rhode Island hen result in sex links? Or would a thode island roo over a ISA brown be sex links? Please help as I’m trying to manage flock breeds and get auto sexing breeds.

Rhode Island Red rooster and Rhode Island Red hen will produce pure Rhode Island Red chicks, which are not sexlinks.

Rhode Island Red rooster with ISA Brown hen will not produce sexlinks either. About half of the chicks will have white tail and the other half will have black tails, but both males and females can have either tail color (and other bits in the feathers will match the tail color for each bird).

Sexlinks and autosexing are two different things.

Sexlinks are when you cross one kind of rooster with a different kind of hen and get color-sexable chicks. For example, Rhode Island Red rooster with Light Sussex hens will produce sexlinks (red daughters, white sons.) Rhode Island Red rooster with Barred Rock hens will produce sexlinks too (black daughters, and sons that are black with a white or yellow dot on their head at hatch and white barring in their feathers as they grow up.)

Autosexing is when you breed one kind of rooster with the same kind of hen, and you get color-sexable chicks. Bielefelders and Cream Legbars are autosexing breeds. Bielefelder rooster x Bielefelder hen = Bielefelder chicks which are color-sexable (females have chipmunk stripes, males have stripes but they are much paler in coloring and have a light dot on their head.) Legbars work the same way. Barred Rocks and Dominiques and Cuckoo Marans are sort-of autosexing too: female chicks are black with a light dot on their head and usually some black on their feet and lower legs, male chicks are black with a bigger light dot on their head and usually lighter-colored feet and lower legs. When they grow feathers, both sexes are black with white barring, but the males are overall lighter in color than the females (more white bars, or wider white bars, or some combination of the two.)