Red Sex Link

If you are having trouble with frostbite I would go to the forums and post about it

It makes me sad think that all of my red sex links exept for 2 is over 2 years old!

I have 4 RSL chicks, and they are very spunky. Not quite as cuddly as the Ameraucanas, but still very friendly.

g67fam...Enjoy your chicks. This is a very productive hybrid but as the old song goes...they're gonna" live fast, love hard and die young...and leave a beautiful memory''.

That;s just the case with most sex-links and again I wish they could live a good long productive life...

What is "internal egg laying"? Is that egg bound? What are the symptoms?
Thanks, Shelley

Black Sex Links have laid eggs for many years according to their reviews. Adding oyster shells for extra calcium might help them.

Very informative, thank you. I have black sex links, they are just a few months old.

When i bought my sex links the breeder said they were gold sex links

Any two breeds that when crossed results in chicks that can be gender ID'd based on fur colors are called sex-linked
According to this it says typical Golden Sex Link (Golden Comet) type is
http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Sex-links/BRKSexLink.html
Golden Sex-Link chick
This cross is from a Rhode Island Red male on a White Rock female
Photo courtesy of Gail Trimble

My post was regarding the Red Sex links which are usually from what are called "production reds" that mature and start laying very early, lay huge eggs and lay pretty much every day until they burn out. If your sex-linked variant is from different breeds (not production) then they may be identified by color at birth and may not follow this same "early burnout" scenario. Best of luck.

I just bought 10 RSLpullets today, i plan to keep them in a run of their own, my Barred rocks will have their own run also, i have read some good reviews on both, i don't think i want them to cross breed

Very nice review Mathew. I suspect you live somewhere around Anchorage? Nice State...I've been there a few times, once in uniform.

Chickens...It generally get's colder here in the Central highlands of West Virginia than around Anchorage, Alaska. That being said, they can do well in the cold when housed, fed and likely more urgent, given access to plenty of fresh non-frozen water.

You are pushing me away with the notion of chickens laying more than one egg per day. Can it happen? I think so but it makes the breed liable for all kinds of production problems...good reason to NOT buy them, IMHO.

RON

I love it!

How long do they live? Three years? Four?

Our 3 each died before the age of 3.

I have one, she weathered one of the harshest NE winters on record. 60"+ snow last winter (total for the year) before I got her at my friend's coup. She is the Alpha. Her name is Sriracha and loves to play fight with me and follows me around the run. She occasionally pecks at legs to get you to play fight with her. Never pecks hard like when one of the other girls comes for my attention. She's the least shy and most friendly of the flock. My favorite gal.

Mine was an egg eater too. And a bully. She was friendly and sweet with the kids, and a good layer, but I had to re-home her in the best interest of my flock.