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Sexlinked genes are amazing and awesome, and so much fun to play around with.

Yep, you have a boy and a girl there.

Any gold/red base color rooster would work. The pattern doesn't matter, just that gold/red base color.

Yes, as long as the Silver Laced is the hen. A Silver Laced rooster would pass that silver gene to both male and female chicks.

It's the Light Brahma hen's silver (black and white) coloring that produces red sexlinks. It's the same color as Light Sussex, Columbian Rocks, and Columbian Wyandottes. Breed isn't really important when it comes to sexlinks. It's the color genetics of the hen that matter. As long as the hen has...

I bought them as vent sexed pullets. They are two of my best layers. 100% female.

Some birds feather faster, some feather slower. I've had slow feathering females. This is picture of some of my Barred Rocks. Same age, same source. The chick on the right was very slow to feather in. You can see how her back was still downy and she hadn't gotten her tail feathers yet. The chick...

You have three girls.

You bred non-typical red sexlinks. Since buffs have such pale down, it will be difficult at this point to judge which chick is silver-base color and which is gold-base color. As they feather in the males will have their mother's coloring. The females will have their father's buff coloring.