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  1. Lacy Duckwing

    Sex link, auto sex, heritage….I want to understand!

    Amazon might have it, Murray McMurray Hatchery should still be selling it along with other hatcheries. Expect to be paying $80-100 for the book, APA's Standard of Perfection. It's a pretty big book too. It's the American Poultry Association (APA) and all official shows are judging according to...
  2. Lacy Duckwing

    Sex link, auto sex, heritage….I want to understand!

    You'll get something different from what you bred from. You can breed them still though. You may have some genetics from the sex link's parent stock show up in their offspring. The wing sexing is a method that doesn't depend on breed. Some say it's not an accurate way of sexing chicks either...
  3. Lacy Duckwing

    Sex link, auto sex, heritage….I want to understand!

    The Standard of Perfection, that is a standard that show birds must meet in APA or ABA shows. For an example of this, let's take an American (not Hatchery or English) Buff Orpington hen. In order to win in one of these shows, she must be as close as possible to this written up Standard of...
  4. Lacy Duckwing

    Sex link, auto sex, heritage….I want to understand!

    Sex Link: A hybrid chicken that the gender is easily determined by their colors or patterns as chicks. Example: A Red Sex Link female chick will be red and a Red Sex Link male chick will be yellow. Auto Sex: A purebred chicken that the gender is easily determined by their colors or patterns as...
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