Poultry Breeding & Genetics
Sex-Linked Crosses and their Offspring
Crossing genetically gold and silver birds can result in a useful sex linkage. Still, it only works one way around, and there are often questions about the offspring they produce.
Crossing genetically gold and silver birds can result in a useful sex linkage. Still, it only works one way around, and there are often questions about the offspring they produce.
A popular question from people incubating and hatching eggs is how to sex chicks? – how can you tell if they are male or female? Sexing chicks while young isn’t easy, but as they start to grow, there are some tell-tale signs to look out for.
Many years ago, a group of scientists in Cambridge discovered that certain characteristics are passed down from parent birds to their sons and not their
Autosexing breeds are pure breeds of poultry that have different coloured male and female young as day-olds.