4 mystery chickens. Breed? Gender?

[The Happster]

Black sex links are created with a non barred cockerel to a barred hen, so the cockerels are barred.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Not always, usually that's the case, but again it depends on the colors passed on through the genes. There is a multitude of pictures on the internet of Black Sexlink / also known as Black Star roosters, and some are all black, some black with a little red, some really red with black, and some barred. Gotta love mother nature's color selection rainbow.

Those aren’t exactly “black sex links”, then. The definition of a black sex link is a barred hen crossed with an unbarred rooster (who isn’t white). This creates barred male chicks and unbarred female chicks. This is how they’re sexed at hatch- the males will have a white spot on their head and the females won’t. There are a lot of hatchery-created hybrids, so those unbarred roosters are probably some other cross.

 

[ValerieLovesChickens]

One of my 6 Black Sexlink pullets, purchased on April 5th, it was a 2 day old chick. So, that makes it 3.5 months old now.

 

[ValerieLovesChickens]

Those aren’t exactly “black sex links”, then. The definition of a black sex link is a barred hen crossed with an unbarred rooster (who isn’t white). This creates barred male chicks and unbarred female chicks. This is how they’re sexed at hatch- the males will have a white spot on their head and the females won’t. There are a lot of hatchery-created hybrids, so those unbarred roosters are probably some other cross.

A Black Sexlink / Black Star is supposed to be a cross of Rhode Island Red Rooster with a Barred Rock Hen. Yes the Male chicks will have a white dot on their heads that is visible the first 2 to 3 days, then fades. While the female chick head is black with no white dot.

https://www.purelypoultry.com/black-sex-link-chickens-p-369.html

 

[The Happster]

It fades - but the cockerels grow barred feathers.
The whole point of the sex-link part.

RoostersAreAwesome knows his stuff.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

A Black Sexlink / Black Star is supposed to be a cross of Rhode Island Red Rooster with a Barred Rock Hen. Yes the Male chicks will have a white dot on their heads that is visible the first 2 to 3 days, then fades. While the female chick head is black with no white dot.

https://www.purelypoultry.com/black-sex-link-chickens-p-369.html

That’s not how barring works. It doesn’t disappear as the chicks grows up. You might want to make a new thread about this so this thread isn’t hijacked.

 

[ValerieLovesChickens]

That’s not how barring works. It doesn’t just disappear as the chick grows up. If you want to learn more about barring, I suggest that you start a new thread about it, so this one doesn’t get hijacked.

No worries, I'm out. Y'all keep twisting my words. I said the spot on the male baby chick's head begins to fade after day 3. NOT the barring.

Y'all have a nice weekend, TGIF & TTFN

P.s. Each person should do their own research, and never rely solely on anyone's advice or opinion here.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

No worries, I'm out. Y'all keep twisting my words. I said the spot on the male baby chick's head begins to fade after day 3. NOT the barring.

Y'all have a nice weekend, TGIF & TTFN

P.s. Each person should do their own research, and never rely solely on anyone's advice or opinion here.

I’m sorry if I sounded rude. I didn’t intend that. There’s just a lot of misinformation about genetics out there.

 

[Robinbobbin]

She’s a lovely lady

One of my 6 Black Sexlink pullets, purchased on April 5th, it was a 2 day old chick. So, that makes it 3.5 months old now.

 

[The Happster]

No one meant to be rude.
There are people we trust on here, that have experience. I would take their word for it in an instant. Rooster being one of them.
We learn off eachother. It helps to be corrected, as that's how we learn.