10 week old chickens—Gender help

[Ol Grey Mare]

The sex link is a pullet, shell likely lay on the early side

 

[ChickNanny13]

Agree all pullets

 

[BullChick]

 

[Frazzemrat1]

She's a sex link, in the right colors for a female, so she's a female... Unless she was a home made sex link, I can't imagine that her coloring was wrong.

 

[BullChick]

It seems safe to say they are all girls.

 

[AmyJane725]

Unless it’s actually a hatchery quality RIR (couldn’t be due to the white), it’s a pullet. It’s a red sex link. She’s red. Her comb is pale pink. If she was a cockerel, it would be bright red as red sex link cockerels seem to develop quite fast. She just looks like a early maturer, which is normal for a RSL.

Still sticking with pullet.

That's why I asked if it was the sex link or not. I was pretty sure the other one was the buff, but I was just wanting to make sure.

Yes the red is a golden sexlink but has me concerned as well.

Well, if it really is a sex link it has to be female. Genetics don’t lie. However, is it possible they screwed up and gave you a RIR or NHR instead?

 

[featheredplanets]

Well, if it really is a sex link it has to be female. Genetics don’t lie. However, is it possible they screwed up and gave you a RIR or NHR instead?

There’s too much white for her to be a RIR or NHR, even a super poor quality one, imo. She’s a red sex link pullet.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

agreed, RIR and NHR don't have white in their feathers... they have black or dark brown.

 

[chickenE]

Looks like lovely ladies to me!

 

[Goat-chicken-dog-mom]

Thank you. Yes she is a Hatchery Sexlink. The other two, one is an EE, the other a Buff Orpington. I will keep you all posted. I was concerned because I had read somewhere that depending on how they are bred over time, every once in awhile, you can get a pullet looking Roo. Hope this is not true in our case. I do like the idea that maybe she will lay early At the moment Miranda ( my girls are named for country music singers) shares the bottom of the pecking order with my EE ( Emmylou) and doesn’t show many of what I would consider Roo characteristics. But she/he is still pretty young at 10-11weeks. So fingers crossed she is a Miranda and not an Andy. Lol. I will let you know when she either crows or lays an egg.