Babies! With pics and brooder cam :)

[jettgirl24]

I hatched out one baby last Sunday... SUPER cute little blue sexlink (cross between my BR hen and Blue Copper Roo) that I'm just in love with. Unfortunately I see a white spot on it's head so I believe it's a roo... That's ok, I'm going to enjoy him as long as I can

He's got 2 siblings still in the bator but I don't have much hope that they'll hatch at this point so I bought him a friend at the feed store... A Salmon Fav who might be the scruffiest little chick I've ever seen. She's totally healthy, just got picked on in the bin, so she has no fuzz on her butt (just spindly tail feather sprouts) and her wings look like they were pecked and pulled like crazy... She also walks like a tiny little vulture, LOL! I love her anyway but I'm a little scared to see what she looks like when she grows up

Hopefully she'll be a good little egg layer to make up for her appearance!

Brooder cam:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/chicken-hatching-eggs

Sexlink baby:

The dreaded white spot:

Scruffy and sexlink... Definitely scruffy's best angle

And a more accurate representation of scruffy and her tattered wings!

 

[Magenta_Chick]

Oh my goodness, your little sexlink is to stinkin cute!

 

[jettgirl24]

Isn't it???? I'm absolutely in love with the little guy

The white spot is really small so I'm holding out hope that it's not actually white, just lighter blue and it's a hen... LOL

 

[ddcoyne]

Does a different color spot on the head indicate rooster? I'm new and wondering.

 

[jettgirl24]

This is my first foray into breeding a sexlink but from I understand in blue and black sexlinks the boys will have white spots on their heads (indicating barring gene?) and the girls are solid blue or solid black. I'm sure there are quite a few people that are more experienced with sexlinks that could explain it in more detail though... I didn't even know I had made a sexlink until about halfway through the incubation, I just grabbed some eggs from my lock for a test hatch in my new bator

 

[lindy]

i hatched a few sexlinks, they were from a buff orphington roo and by a barred rock. The boys had the white spots and the girls didnt. I think out of three eggs, i got two girls and one boy. they were all different looking when grown, one was more red one was more black,