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You have three girls.
Why would the one feather so much quicker than the rest?
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You have three girls.
How were they sexed? I hope i'm not coming off as trying to argue with you, I would prefer if all 3 were females obviously! Lol! I'm new to this,so willing to learn!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 next to her was much more feathered in. Both are female. The Light Brahma hen can only pass her silver color to her male chicks. Silver is dominant over buff. If the chicks were male, they would be silver. No silver chicks means no males.
I bought them as vent sexed pullets. They are two of my best layers. 100% female.
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 a silver-base color, she will produce red sexlink chicks when bred to a rooster with a gold/red base color. Silver is dominant over gold/red colors. She can only pass the dominant, silver coloring on to her male chicks.
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.