Am I overrun with roos???

[sarahswank]

I started looking around and it feels like alot of my red sex link pullets are turning out to be cockerals!!! Please tell me I am wrong!
They are 9-10 weeks. #1,3, and 4 have comb development, but only number #1 is red.







not sure this is a great photo, but looking at that tail... cockeral? This is bird #4 from the first picture.

 

[topher166]

they look alot like my RSL pullets.
except for the one with a lot of white.

 

[Merro]

My RSL's have a lot of white. Pullets.

#1 has a bit of comb though... And maybe saddle feathers. I'd say roo on him.

 

[keesmom]

Red sex link cockerels are white. Where did you get them? Any chance the 2 solid red ones are NH Reds/RIRs/production reds? #1 does look like a cockerel.

 

[Merro]

RSL cockerels may have white, but the females especially on their butts have white. Google search will show.



These are all mine at probably a similar age. All females. All bought from a hatchery and were first gen RSLs. Very vivid little red baby chicks.

Oh, and theirs could still be RSLs even with a red roo. Just probably a 2nd or 3rd gen where the color sexing no longer works...

 

[farmer boy]

#1 looks like a cockerel but could you get better shots of the other chickens combs ??

 

[sarahswank]

they look alot like my RSL pullets.
except for the one with a lot of white.

If your talking about the one in the background. That is just an easter egger/mutt LOL. She didnt want to leave from under the shade.

My RSL's have a lot of white. Pullets.

#1 has a bit of comb though... And maybe saddle feathers. I'd say roo on him.

Yeah. No crow, but #1 actually has ALOT of comb... and wattles..

Red sex link cockerels are white. Where did you get them? Any chance the 2 solid red ones are NH Reds/RIRs/production reds? #1 does look like a cockerel.

I bought them from TSC from a red-sex link pullet bin. The only other chicks that were being sold were leghorns and bantams... So not likely a bin switch... It could be a hatchery mix up, but then anything is possible.

 

[anderson8505]

Were they all reddish in color when you got them as young chicks? If so, they're all pullets. The beauty of sex links! Otherwise, cockerels will be yellow.

 

[sarahswank]

. Number 4

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. Number 3. Number 2 doesn't have much. And what little there is is yellow. Here are some of the combs of the group in question. They were the usual reddish. Color as my other sex link chicks( I bought a second group straight from the hatchery). Lol. But unfortunately, I now know one is a cockeral. When I went to take more pictures #1 crowed..... so for some reason the color sexing wasn't true