Will they be sex-linked?

[Iluveggers]

So I hatched some Silkie eggs, and all are BBS, but the breeder threw in two eggs from her Silkie/legbar cross hen who looks like a legbar hen but with feathered legs and top pouf.

Will the offspring will be sexlinked? One is brown with dark brown stripe and no headspot. Others are all grey and black.

Thanks!

 

[Iluveggers]

The othet chick that must be from a blue egg is black, and has 5 toes but no feathered legs. I am wondering if one is male & one is female, or because mom is mixed it is just a toss up.

@The Moonshiner you are usually pretty knowledgeable about this stuff, any thoughts?

 

[Iluveggers]

Does anyone happen to know about this? I can’t find any info anywhere…

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Do you know if the Legbar mix hen has barring? Was she for sure bred by a Blue, Black, or Splash rooster, or was there another rooster she was with? A non-barred rooster crossed to a barred hen would make sexlinks, where cockerels have barring and pullets do not. Whether or not they're chipmunk striped is not a sexlinked trait in this sort of cross.

 

[Iluveggers]

Do you know if the Legbar mix hen has barring? Was she for sure bred by a Blue, Black, or Splash rooster, or was there another rooster she was with? A non-barred rooster crossed to a barred hen would make sexlinks, where cockerels have barring and pullets do not. Whether or not they're chipmunk striped is not a sexlinked trait in this sort of cross.

She is barred (saw pics), and the two roosters are black & solash. So the top spot would be the indicator? And no spot means female? Thank you!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Yes, a head spot means that the chick inherited barring. Since hens can only pass barring to their sons, never their daughters, that means that if only the hen is barred in a cross, then only the male chicks can inherit the gene.

 

[Iluveggers]

Yes, a head spot means that the chick inherited barring. Since hens can only pass barring to their sons, never their daughters, that means that if only the hen is barred in a cross, then only the male chicks can inherit the gene.

Woohoo! No headspots! So at least 2 pullets in this bunch of 8.