Red Sex Link

I loved my 3 red stars!! I named them!
Ruby, omliet, and pluma. Sweet hearts.. Very protective of me

Our three hens are just the best! They love to follow our rooster around and be held. They have never attacked us and are a very calm breed. These are a truly great breed.

These birds are very good layers, and friendly (will tolerate being picked up). They also don't go broody often which is good if you want a high egg production. They don't complain about confinement, although they love it when they can free range.

I really like Red Sex Links. They start laying early and they just lay and lay and lay. I think of them as the quintessential brown egg layer, and I almost always have a couple of them in my flock. They lay a nice brown egg almost every day during the egg laying season.

I have 2 now that are getting older (maybe 4 years old?) One still lays almost every day. The other is showing her age more, in many ways, and she only lays occasionally. She's still a favorite pet, a big old gal who flies onto a roost that is too high for her every night and whistles and yodels every morning until I climb up and pull her down.

We love our Red Sex Link hens. They are excellent layers!

My 2 hens are great layers and one is very friendly, the other isn't as much as it was feral most of the time.

My new one, the one that was feral, is very easily pick on though. The other one is the rooster's favorite hen so she's fine in the pecking order.

Love my red sexlink! Awesome egg-layer and not to mention would make great pets. Last in the pecking order and seems to get picked on the most. Also, my red sexlink is a 1.5 years and is pretty healthy but you usually hear of these chickens dying from being prone to egg-laying issues. Its sad to hear, especially when you get attached to them. Love the breed and personality though!

I just love this breed they are friendly like my Australorps girls.

I absolutely love my red sexlinks.My nephew who is two can walk into their coop to feed and water them and they do not peck at him at all. They have broken my mother who is afraid of chickens because they do not fly up at you at all. Instead squawk to say hello and patiently wait for a pet or a treat. I can handle these birds no problem wether its picking them up or shaking their treat bag to get them back into their coop. They dont mind new flock mates which makes them an easy going nature. I have had a wonderful experience with my ladies even if they go broody when they arent suppose too. They lay wonderful brown eggs and every once in a while a double yoker!! I would highly recommend this bird to anyone! Especially if you are new to raising chickens!! These are hardy and family friendly birds for sure!!

These were our first breed. I got them when I was 12 (now Im 14) and two died from natural causes when they were 1 1/2. I dont get it. they were perfectly healthy then they stopped laying and next thing I knew they were as thin as can be and die. It wasnt worms or anything like that and none of the other hens got it.

on the other hand these birds are the friendliest, most people-loving chickens you can get. I never could have wished for a better pet. So Friendly!

My red sex link is one of my favorite chickens. She lays a big brown egg daily. She's taken 4 days off in the 5 months she has been laying. She's nice to look at too, with the white feathers under the red! She's very social with me and loves to eat out of my hand and pester me for treats. I'm so glad to have her as a part of my flock!

This is a good breed if you want to get lots of eggs! My hens are my biggest layers and love to forage in the grass. They are tamer than other breeds to humans but mine don't get along with the other birds too well. They never cause real damage but seem to love hogging the food and pecking other birds. They are not fancy looking at all but still cute, and they have such little personalities. One of my Red Sex Links is so chubby and cute, and she doesn't have much of a tail so she looks extra fat! Though, don't rely on these for chicks, the hens never go broody. Overall, good breed.

I bought four Red Sex Link hens for my flock three years ago. One has died every year, and two died this year. It was very upsetting because they had quickly become my favorites. They were all very sweet and loved to be pet. They all presumably died of the same thing, but I'm not sure what it was. I think they just layed so much that their little bodies just gave out.

The first one that died also had a horrible habit of picking the feathers out of everyone else's bottoms. After a few weeks they all picked up the habit and I was left with a flock of bald chickens with irritated skin. Thankfully they stopped after she died, and are back to normal now.

I absolutely love Red Sex Links! They lay jumbo eggs. My Red Sex Link lays 6 times a week. I have not been let down by her. If I sit down in their big run, she likes to crawl around me and sit between my legs. She is very sweet and is always excited when I come over to the coop. She likes to be picked up. She will jump up like a dog to get food in my hand! I will be getting more soon!

Like I said above, lay very large eggs one year. They getting so big I'm afraid ones going to break in the vent

A popular breed with egg lovers They produce 300+ large to extra large eggs per year. Their lack of broodiness is a con for me, it may be a pro for you. Even when they do go broody their mothering instincts aren't the best or strongest. They don't instinctively know to watch for predators but if you range them with another breed that does like barred rock, they learn fast, they also learn the first time a hawk takes one of them. They are excellent foragers. Sometimes too good, as they tend to eat everything down to bare dirt within 100 feet of their coop.

They are a production hybrid. One of my favorites, I always keep some around for my own egg consumption needs.

I acquired my RSL (a Golden Comet to be specific) in a mixed flock of 4 month old pullets. She was the first to mature and began laying at 5 months and 1 week. She laid large, very dark eggs from the beginning and they keep getting larger. (See attached pics, the egg she laid today won't even fit in the egg carton!) Not only is she an outstanding layer, but she is the sweetest, friendliest, most intelligent girl in the flock. Very beautiful, too. She doesn't pick on anyone but won't let anyone pick on her. Once she began laying however she turned into an eating machine to the likes of which I have never seen. Its like she's in a feeding frenzy all day long. While the others take naps here and there she is still foraging for food. She will stop to dust bathe once a day but that is the only time she stops eating. I have read these hybrids have a very short lifespan and I can see why considering the insane egg production and the nonstop metabolism. I will ALWAYS have at least one of these sweethearts in my flock.

I Love Red Sex Links! But they just won't stand up for themselves, so they are almost always at the bottom of the pecking order. Good for kids if you are just getting a full flock of just Red Sex Links. They are super sweet and really good egg layers. Sometimes they can be shy, and sometimes they can be very curious. That is probably why they are disease and injury prone then other chickens. Recommended for people who know how to deal with sick/injured chickens.

Love Kiki

They are a great breed I have 3 of them very calm I can walk right up to them and pick them up, they don't peck or hurt the others, and they lay these huge dark brown eggs I haven't been able to get the egg cartons closed so I have been taping the cartons closed. They are even very pretty birds with there bright shiny red brown colors with a bit of white. I highly reccomend these birds for any backyard flock.