Follow up for posterity. Now that they are getting mature feathers, they both appear to be golds. I am curious if anyone knows enough about the crosses to know which produces the striped version of the gold sex link?
These chick presumably came from the same hatchery but looked different and...
Anyone have any thoughts or educated guesses? My best guess is these are a red and gold sex link. Is the reddish one red enough to be a RIR? Does anyone know why they would feather out so differently?
A week ago I picked up what are supposed to be a couple of gold sex links from the feed store. They reached in and grabbed two. When I got home and compared the two, they had some very different characteristics so I'm wonderful if I ended up with a different breed altogether. Chick #1 has...