If your line produces black breasted males and salmon breasted or brown breasted females look at the breast feather color . Otherwise yes red blotches on wing shoulders .
I am using more than 1 method to sex these . Since the rooster is silver all pullets will be pure for silver . Males will carry silver and gold from the hens as in golden duckwing . This can make them hard to sex as the difference between silver and golden duckwing can be hard to detect . So...
I was not trying for OE . Just sharing my results to let her know Brahma was not a good choice for OE . Which you helped clarify . My wife says I do not always make my meaning clear .
LF crosses . Dark Brahma x Legbar crossed EE hens . Top pic pullets . The very light ones came from mahogany red hens . Darker stripes are a better defined . Lower right is possibly a cockerel . Just not sure on that one .
These should be cockerels because red and silver are sex linked . So the...
This is a bantam EE and her egg . Dark Brahma rooster over EE bantam hen created her. Minty green . I guess Brahma eggs may not be brown enough for olive eggs .
Chick 2 is a cockerel . Chick one is pullet . I can not account for the very light wheaten female color of chick one . Chick 2 is showing black in the breast .
The cockerel carries silver and gold but showing silver in the neck . Very common on a silver and gold cockerel . I see feather legs ...
Also he looks to carry both silver and gold . Golden Duckwing .The yellow tint in the saddle area gives this away . So you will get both silver and partridge pullets from him . So in cockerels you will get Golden Duckwing like him and Partridge cockerels .
I agree . These are basically the same as what they were selling in the early 70's . The mixing myth has been overdone . It is true some mixing has been done by a few hatcheries but not much .