snozzer
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RIR X L/SUSSEX What Colour?I have 6 RIR X L/SUSSEX in the incubator right now, the cockerel being the L/Sussex.
What colour will the resulting birds be?
I thought Red, but today 2 local chook experts contradicted each other both choosing a different colour, so I have no idea 
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Chez
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I don't know that way round - a mixture of red and silver, I think. If you do it the other way round, ie, RIR dad, LS mum, the girls take after their father and are reddy/brown and the boys take after their mum and are silver. But I think the sex-linking only works that way not the other.
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alison
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Chez you are right, the sex link is only that wasy round.
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snozzer
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Cheers for that, so Reddish boys and Silver girls?
Only 2 weeks to hatching I will let you know when they start to feather up...
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Chez
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No, I think you will find they will ALL be reddish - the sex-link thing only works the other way round, when you have a LS cockerel and a RIR hen.
Let us know!
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pookie
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| Chez wrote: | No, I think you will find they will ALL be reddish - the sex-link thing only works the other way round, NOT when you have a LS cockerel and a RIR hen.
Let us know! |
nooo you had it right 1st time!  it only works when you have RIR cock on LS hens-boys will be silver and girls red.
At hatch boy chicks are yellow and girls are orange.
(or similar combo of other breeds ie dark on light) 
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judith
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| pookie wrote: | | it only works when you have RIR cock on LS hens-boys will be silver and girls red. |
It also only works if you remember to ring one of the sexes, rather than assuming you will remember which are which  
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pookie
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| judith wrote: | | pookie wrote: | | it only works when you have RIR cock on LS hens-boys will be silver and girls red. |
It also only works if you remember to ring one of the sexes, rather than assuming you will remember which are which |
No the girls (brown) get called Wendy, then lay lots of eggs and the boys(white) get to see the inside of the oven (after several months of a relatively good life that is ) no ringing needed!
Well maybe some wringing
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judith
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What am I thinking? Aren't there some sex links that have a spot on the head that disappears once the feathers appear? Or am I having a senior moment and making this up? (Won't be the first time!)
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Chez
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There was a bit of discussion about the spot thing on Practical Poultry and the consensus seemed to be that it wasn't very consistent. I've got marans in at the moment though, so I'm prepared to ring the spotted ones and see what happens.
Pookie, can you run that by us again just to clarify?
RIR cock / LS hen - boys are silver, girls are brown.
LS cock / RIR hen - anybody's best guess?
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pookie
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| judith wrote: | | What am I thinking? Aren't there some sex links that have a spot on the head that disappears once the feathers appear? Or am I having a senior moment and making this up? (Won't be the first time!) |
The head spot trait results from a sexlinked Black Cock X Cuckoo female mating as cocks have the barring gene and have the spot and the pullets don't have the barring gene therefore don't have a spot. Don't know too much on genetics, maybe there are other breeds too.
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pookie
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| Chez wrote: | There was a bit of discussion about the spot thing on Practical Poultry and the consensus seemed to be that it wasn't very consistent. I've got marans in at the moment though, so I'm prepared to ring the spotted ones and see what happens.
Pookie, can you run that by us again just to clarify?
RIR cock / LS hen - boys are silver, girls are brown.yes
LS cock / RIR hen - anybody's best guess?yes cos I dunno either |
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