Silver Barnevelder Roo over my hens.

[nuthatched]

I have a Silver Barnevelder roo and standard Barnevelder hens, would I be correct in assuming I would get sex linked chicks, pullets being silver laced?
I also have Speckled Sussex, Splash Australorps and a single splash laced red wyandotte, would it also be correct to assume I'd get blue or black chicks from them?
Thanks!

 

[Amer]

Nope, they wouldn't be sexlinked.
Pullets would be silver but cockerels would be silver/gold heterozygotes and they would just look silver at hatch.
Of course they'd have mahogany which gives them a red cast.
Bred with speckled sussex you'd get silver incomplete laced and silver/gold incomplete laced. (With a red cast.)
Bred with splash laced red you'd get silver blue incomplete laced and silver/gold incomplete laced.
Bred with splash Australorps you would get blue chicks though. Maybe with a touch of silver leakage.

 

[nuthatched]

Nope, they wouldn't be sexlinked.
Pullets would be silver but cockerels would be silver/gold heterozygotes and they would just look silver at hatch.
Of course they'd have mahogany which gives them a red cast.
Bred with speckled sussex you'd get silver incomplete laced and silver/gold incomplete laced. (With a red cast.)
Bred with splash laced red you'd get silver blue incomplete laced and silver/gold incomplete laced.
Bred with splash Australorps you would get blue chicks though. Maybe with a touch of silver leakage.

Thanks. Sounds like I would get some interesting patterns.

 

[Amer]

Thanks. Sounds like I would get some interesting patterns.

Share if you get anything! So many folks ask but never share the results!

 

[nuthatched]

Share if you get anything! So many folks ask but never share the results!

I honestly forget that I can incubate my eggs.