Black sex-link?

[WA23]

This is a little bit of a revival of an old thread https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=86728
where I was wondering what this breed is. She was sold to me as an "Ameracauna". At the time all seemed to agree she was probably an EE. She started to lay a week ago with brown eggs. Does anyone familier with black sex-links know if she could be that? Is she just a mixed up EE (with green legs) that lays brown eggs?

 

[Pumpkinpup]

Not hardly! Looks like a cross betweened a golden laced breed to me.

 

[silkiechicken]

Looks like an EE to me. They can lay brown eggs since not all EE's have the green egg gene.

 

[WA23]

The only reason I questioned an EE was based on a picture I saw of a black SL that looked similar. In addition, I have gotten six brown eggs in six days from her and she has only been laying for six days.

So, I guess she is an EE without the green gene.

 

[ksacres]

Not a sl.

And, technically, it's the "blue gene" since there are genetically only two colors of eggs- white and blue. Brown eggs are white eggs that are "painted" and green eggs are blue eggs with the same pigment deposit.