Hi All

 

Just wonder if you can tell me what sex our babies are?

 

 

Thanks

Hi the first one looks like an opaline grey hen, the second looks like a grey male and then an albino hen and the other grey is a little harder to pick but I would say male also. What colour are the parents? sometimes that can give you a clue on the sexes

Cheers Jenny

If one of the parents is albino and one is not the albino chicks will be the opposite sex to the albino parent,as it it sex linked. Hope this helps.

LML

Parents

Hi Aus, finchbreeder is only half correct but so as not to confuse you to much your male is an opaline cobalt which is a sexed linked mutation and he is also carrying the ino gene which is also sex linked.

What this means is that all of your opalines and albinos will be hens and anything that isn't are boys.

Hope this helps.

Cheers Jenny

If one of the parents is albino and one is not the albino chicks will be the opposite sex to the albino parent,as it it sex linked. Hope this helps.

LML

 

As Hilly said, this is only half true, meaning that an albino male with a non albino hen will have albino daughters. But it doesn't work the other way around. An albino hen with a non albino male will only make normal sons who are split to albino. (Unless the father is split to albino.)

 

In order for any sex-linked mutation to appear in any offspring, the father MUST be carrying the sex-linked gene, either visually, or in split form. A father can make visual sex-linked mutations in his daughters, but in order for a son to be visual, it must get the gene from BOTH parents.