Show off your Red sex-links!! [[pictures included]] !! (:

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He's marked like the one on the bottom. Just lighter. More goldish. It gets darker as he gets older. At first we though it was rust from rubbing under our old truck but it didn't come off. Then his neck and head feathers started changing to the rusty gold color.
 
christine9 said:
Quote: Thanks! I can't help but wonder. So far most agree with you. RSL was another suggestion, so I figured this thread would be a good place to post. The RIR diehards were only replying that she was not a RIR. Thank you for your opinion.
Here are some of my RIR chicks. I know the chicks are hard to see.


These chicks are a mix of RSL, Heritage RIR and Production RIR.




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Any idea if she will start laying soon?
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I have sex links, and I have an honest question.. It may sound stupid (I know to me it does) But my dad said that these hens are "Sterile", meaning if we bred them to my del rooster (who is with them right now) that the eggs would never fertilize... Now to me Sterile means without any sort of reproduction. So if they WERE Sterile, they wouldn't even lay? Correct? So is there any possibility that if we put the eggs under a broody, they would hatch?? (I'm pretty sure they would, but my dad doesn't believe that the Red Sex links can reproduce... I've already had one hen go broody, but she was too slow to realize she had to sit on the eggs... we gave her a bunch of eggs in the nest box she was brooding in and she moved to the next one over....
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) and on that note, here's a pics of some of my girls. :)










 
TommyDaDelaware said:
I have sex links, and I have an honest question.. It may sound stupid (I know to me it does) But my dad said that these hens are "Sterile", meaning if we bred them to my del rooster (who is with them right now) that the eggs would never fertilize... Now to me Sterile means without any sort of reproduction. So if they WERE Sterile, they wouldn't even lay? Correct? So is there any possibility that if we put the eggs under a broody, they would hatch?? (I'm pretty sure they would, but my dad doesn't believe that the Red Sex links can reproduce... I've already had one hen go broody, but she was too slow to realize she had to sit on the eggs... we gave her a bunch of eggs in the nest box she was brooding in and she moved to the next one over.... :rolleyes: ) and on that note, here's a pics of some of my girls. :)
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They are fertile (if they are with a roo) and will hatch. I think the confusion for your dad and the reason for his thinking is that sex links don't breed true. Meaning a sex linked bird will not hatch sex linked birds. Your chicks would be considered a backyard mix.
 

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