Golden Sex Link

Finally she is getting a lot friendlier. She has calmed down a lot.

We owned two for a brief period for a friend. We see the chickens we raised for her often. One has passed but the other is still super friendly and is a good layer.

When I started keeping chickens, I thought that I'd only keep heritage birds. Then I was given some Meyer Golden Comets, and fell in love with them. They are so pretty, and each looks a bit different from the others, which I like. They are the calmest birds that I have, and tolerate handling even though I do not tame my chickens. They do just fine with no heat through an Ohio winter, and just keep on laying. Now over half the flock are sex links, so I have 40+ of them at any given time. We've had several hundred over the past few years.

We have not experienced any of the negative health problems that others have had with this hybrid. Never had an eggbound hen, no prolapse, nothing. They just keep on laying eggs no matter the weather. We do sell our sex links when they pass 24 months old, so I do not know how they fare as older hens. We have not had any negative feedback from the people who buy our older hens, however.

Anytime anyone asks me what kind of hen they should get that will be great for a family and will lay lots of eggs, I recommend any of the commercial sex-linked hybrids.

I had an amazing GSL for 10-months. I don't know how old she was at purchase. It's because of her that I'm chicken-addicted. She's gone now, but we miss her personality as much as the 7-jumbo-sized eggs-per-week. (Maybe more). She was the lead hen....and yet she was never aggressive the others just knew she was in charge.

In one stretch she laid 106 consecutive days, took a day off, and began laying again. .

GSLs are simply amazing birds. They can incorporate everything a chicken should be IMO.

I have a Buff Orphington, Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, and a sex-link (Spicy). In the beginning she was more on the wild and aggressive side (hence Spicy), but is now the best hen in the bunch. The other two are skiddish and don't like to be held (contrary to reviews), but she knows the routine and pretty much runs the show.

Updated 10/16 - Still my favorite hen in the bunch. She is a solid layer of decent sized brown eggs. Always friendly and will come up to me for treats or to be held. She's curious and has her nose in everything. Such a great personality.

My girl Lotus is my pride and joy. She lets 5-year-olds pick her up, comes running with that goofy chicken gait any time I go outside. She comes for snuggles, not for food. She lays a good 6 eggs a week, not slowing down in the winter. Her eggs are huge and she even laid a double-yolker for me once. That was a new and treasured experience for me.

Only issue I have with her is she walks into the house any time the back door is open. Even if she is shoo'd out, she comes back in the moment the door is open again.

I bought 7 of these at 17-18 weeks old. Within a week and a half they were laying. I got one egg the first day, two the second, three the third, four the fourth, and so on. Eggs were perfect from the start, good size with thick shells. Very people friendly birds, though I find they tend to be sort of pecky with my older birds.

I recently did some math to see if our five Golden Comets were earning their keep. During the summer I got five eggs per day, every day, and in the winter with no additional lighting I still got four. Assuming they produced an average of 31 eggs per week, that's 124 per month and 1488 per year! Considering a dozen eggs at the grocery store are about three dollars, that's at least $372 in eggs from five hens. It cost maybe $120 to feed them for a year. So these ladies saved us $250 dollars, or $50/each.

Plus, they're really pleasant birds. Ours free-range and are very good at foraging. They like to run up to me if I set foot outside, just in case I'm bringing them a treat, and they form a little posse to follow me around the property. Just awesome birds all around, and I'd recommend them to first time owners or those in the egg business with no hesitation.

These have been my favorite all around hens. These girls are excellent layers in our hot Texas climate and quite hardy. Our favorite hen "Butterscotch" was bit by a rattle snake just below the eye. We thought for sure we would loose her. Her face swelled up the size of a baseball and turned purple. She quit eating for more than a week and quit laying eggs for over a month. After a week the swelling begin to decrease. She then had a quirk where she would twist her neck in a twitch for several weeks. She continually improved until we could re-introduce her to the flock where she quickly integrated back to the top of the pecking order. Oddly her top beak begin to grow at a somewhat accelerated rate and she appeared to be blind in one eye. Eventually she regained her sight but was loosing weight as she was having trouble picking up her food. We realized she needed her beak trimmed. We have been trimming here beak about once every three weeks ever since. She eats well, looks great, just went through her second molt and is still our best layer. Oh by the way she is one of our friendliest hens. She comes running when we go the the chicken yard and holds very still when we pick her up to trim her beak. It is almost as though she appreciates it. She lays the biggest brown eggs almost daily. We love our golden sex links.

This is probably the overall best hen in my flock. She was the first to begin laying out of the breeds (EEs, Black Australorps, and Golden Comet) that I bought last Spring. She is my two-year old daughter's favorite hen and will allow my daughter to pick her up and carry her around with no fuss at all. When the weather began to get colder and I hadn't had a chance to put a light in the coop yet, all the other hens laid fewer eggs for a while, but not the Golden Comet! She was consistent with her egg-a-day all the way through! Great size eggs too, right from the first egg. Highly recommend this breed for laying!

I love my Golden Sex Link Rooster ! He is a wonderful rooster, we never have any trouble from him, he doesn't eat much, and he is very loving . I give the breed a gold star !

I have 5 Golden Sex Linked hens that I purchased here when 7 weeks old. They started laying right about 6 1/2 mos old. Consistently get 4 eggs per day from 5 hens. Eggs are golden brown and large. Hens are smaller than my White Plymouth Rock but eggs are same size. Tolerate Alaska's cold weather with a small radiant heater in coop and still laying when -10 degrees and inside coop is below 0 (water freezes if not plugged in).

Nothing negative

Our Golden Sex Link started laying at 17 weeks. She laid 4 double yolkers her first week, then two more a few weeks later. She has laid every single day since she started except for 2 days in 7 months, Her regular eggs are larger than the jumbo size ones at the store, and they are a darkish reddish brown, really nice color. She is not aggressive, but one of the top hens in the pecking order. She just has an air about her, the others bow to her, but she is not mean at all. She comes to me when I call her, and is very curious about people and quite friendly. We have been very pleased with her. I have heard these burn out faster than others, I have not had her that long so I could not say. But so far she has been great! She is by far the best layer we have. She lays her egg very predictably 1 hour after the lights come on every single morning, we have supplemented light for winter.

They are the cutest things.

my Profile picture is a great example of the colors of the hens, they are great egg layers and possibly the best mothers we've had.

I have 5 one year old hens , that have laid nearly every day since 20 weeks old, they lay a medium-large brown egg every day. My hens just let me pick them up and carry them around, or pet them. I love them to death but i recently got six new chicks to introduce and they aren't the best to them, but other than that they are perfect, i recommend them for first time chicken owners who want a lot of eggs

I've had one RSL for a year now, and she is EVERYONE'S favourite. We just purchased 19 more to help meet our demands for eggs. Our older hen free ranges with everyone else, and is the smartest chicken I have. She is friendly, lays an egg a day in the hot weather, AND the cold. She laid right through her molt. She lays a really big egg too. Hope some of the new chicks are as good as her! They already love to roost on my boots, and run when I call "chick chick chick" - they are being raised by two broodies and did seem kind of broody stupid. Took them a while to realize it was warm under mom.

I've named them all Penny, because I won't be able to tell them apart. We often yell "Penny, leave penny alone!" hehehe...