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What breed is Suzie?

post #1 of 18
3/12/12 at 6:38pm
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Okay, back when we got our chicks, we got one out of the "black sex link" box.  It was a brown chick.  We named her Suzie.  She is now 3 weeks old (give or take a day).  Here she is in all her glory.

 

Suzie

 

Behind here are 3 as yet un-named Silver Laced Wyandottes, and one Americauna, who we've named Thelma.  I picked her up and carried her over to the nearby bathroom for some cameo pics.  Poor thing was shivering.  First picture is white washed with the flash.  Second picture, is fuzzy, but not flash.

 

Suzie

 

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So my question is this.  Is Suzie a black sex link?  Or is she something else?

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post #2 of 18
3/13/12 at 8:02am

She could be, she has the coloring forming on her back. Maybe when her feathers come in more it'll be more visible

 

It's the shape that makes the breed, and the color that makes the variety.

 

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It's the shape that makes the breed, and the color that makes the variety.

 

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post #3 of 18
3/13/12 at 11:26am
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Originally Posted by shadowmane View Post

Okay, back when we got our chicks, we got one out of the "black sex link" box.  It was a brown chick.  We named her Suzie.  She is now 3 weeks old (give or take a day).  Here she is in all her glory.

 

 

 

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So my question is this.  Is Suzie a black sex link?  Or is she something else?



I have a sneaking suspicion that she was misplaced in that black sex link bin.  And that comb of hers is awfully large for a pullet, but chicks are often unpredictable.  There are not too many purebred chicks that start out brown like the first photo, so I don't really have a guess.  She could be that 1 in 500 genetic anomaly that hatch out of sex-links every now and then.  She's definitely a pretty little thing.  

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-Enjoying eggs of heterotic hens because I lack the ability & patience to succeed in a purebred world. (credit msucares.com/poultry/commercial/history.html)

-As Aunt Augusta says:  I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.  Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.  The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound.  Fortunately...

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post #4 of 18
3/13/12 at 2:42pm

I think you ended up picking up a RIR or Production Red chick that got mistakenly placed in the wrong bin.  She should have been black from day one if she was a BSL.  They only develop reddish brown later around the head when they feather out, not completely brown.

"It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!"
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"It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!"
Joey Santiago
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post #5 of 18
3/13/12 at 4:21pm
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She's bigger than all the rest because the Sex Links were delivered to the farm supply store a week before the Wyandottes.  She's been bigger than the rest of them all along because she is about a week older.  She is 3 weeks old.  The rest are 2 weeks old.  I have had a little suspicion that our Suzie is a rooster, but I'll wait on that one.

 

It would be nice if she is a Production Red, given that bird's egg production rate.

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post #6 of 18
3/13/12 at 8:04pm

Is it just the camera, or do I already see shiny feathers? Hens don't get shiny feathers. My araucana boys started getting them around 5 weeks. I'id keep a close eye on that one - will be beautiful regardless. What else did the feed store have available at the time you got it?

~Meg~
The remaining 6 of my original 7 barred rocks are 3yrs old and happily divided between a friend and my mom.
Laying: 2 Partridge Rocks, 1 Columbian Wyandotte and 2 Black Australorps. 14 weeks: 3 bantam Araucana.
Cowed to chicken math and sharing my bedroom with 8 BBS Ameraucana mixes.

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~Meg~
The remaining 6 of my original 7 barred rocks are 3yrs old and happily divided between a friend and my mom.
Laying: 2 Partridge Rocks, 1 Columbian Wyandotte and 2 Black Australorps. 14 weeks: 3 bantam Araucana.
Cowed to chicken math and sharing my bedroom with 8 BBS Ameraucana mixes.

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post #7 of 18
3/13/12 at 8:33pm
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The Wyandottes, some broilers, and some un-named breed banties.  They Americaunas came in the next day.  We bought the 7 Wyandottes and Suzie on Leap Day.

 

As for the shine, I'll have to look again, but I think its some white in her wing feathers.

 

Now that brings up another question.  If Suzie turns out to be a rooster, will breeding her (ur...um... him?) and the Wyandottes produce sex links?

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post #8 of 18
3/14/12 at 6:41am

Gold rooster over silver hen... you will have red sex links. Males will be light colored (silver) and females will be dark (gold). The degree of coloration will depend on the parents. Sometimes it's as minor in chicks as just the fuzz on their face - yellow vs. white.

 

http://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information will give you all the info you could dream of for breeding sex-linked chicks.

~Meg~
The remaining 6 of my original 7 barred rocks are 3yrs old and happily divided between a friend and my mom.
Laying: 2 Partridge Rocks, 1 Columbian Wyandotte and 2 Black Australorps. 14 weeks: 3 bantam Araucana.
Cowed to chicken math and sharing my bedroom with 8 BBS Ameraucana mixes.

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~Meg~
The remaining 6 of my original 7 barred rocks are 3yrs old and happily divided between a friend and my mom.
Laying: 2 Partridge Rocks, 1 Columbian Wyandotte and 2 Black Australorps. 14 weeks: 3 bantam Araucana.
Cowed to chicken math and sharing my bedroom with 8 BBS Ameraucana mixes.

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post #9 of 18
3/14/12 at 10:01am
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Yeah, I had seen that thread before.  It would be a group 1 male vs group 2a female cross.

 

I looked at the chick in question today.  Seems like I'm seeing two different red colors in the wing.  A lighter red at the base of the wing, and a darker red towards the tip.  Also, the tail feathers are short.  My Wyandottes already have tail feathers that are longer.  Even the Americaunas have longer tail feathers.

 

I'm going to keep my eye on this one.  When I originally asked this question, it was just to find out what breed I was dealing with.  Now I'm finding out I might be dealing with a rooster.  Something I wasn't prepared for.  hu.gif

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post #10 of 18
3/14/12 at 10:45am

this is what a black sex link pullet chick should look like. They can have differnt colored feet and beaks. but downs the same

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yours looks to be something else

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