You need a rooster, a hen and 21 days in an incubator or under a hen and you’ll be throwing your own barnyard gender reveal party on hatch day A prime example is the red star, in which a rhode island red rooster is bred to a white plymouth rock hen. The most important thing is to start with quality parent stock.
Everything You Need to Know About Sexlink Chickens
There are a few breeds that sex link characteristics carry through multiple generations, for example rhodebars and legbars
We will describe these breeds and their properties later
Black sex links are created by breeding a barred hen to a non barred rooster. Sex link is the term used when different breeds of chicken are crossed to produce chicks with discernably different sex features
