Breed ID please

[NatJ]

Red sexlink is equivalent to calling every facial tissue a kleenex. Lol

Then what term do you use for the ones where females are red and males are white? The chicken equivalent of "facial tissue." I think "Red Sexlink" is the equivalent of "facial tissue," the word that means the general kind of bird but does not tell what brand it is.

ISA Brown, Gold Comet, Red Star, Bovans Brown, and several other terms are the equivalent of "Kleenex," which is a specific brand name.

But "Red Sexlink" is a rather literal term. "Sexlink" is commonly used for the chicks of any cross that gives sexable chicks by some visible trait (down color, foot color, feather growth.) Red Sexlink, Black Sexlink, and Blue Sexlink are telling the color of the female for each type of sexlink.

As far as I'm aware, red sex link is the umbrella term for all the names such as ISA brown, golden comet, etc @NatJ I remember you talking about it on another thread. Am I missing something?

That is the usage that I am familiar with.

ISA Brown is the brand name for these birds and stands for “Institut de Sélection Animale”.

This is the institute that first bred these birds in 1978. They were initially bred as a battery hen to produce large quantities of eggs per year. ISA Brown are excellent layers and have been known to produce around 300 large brown eggs a year per hen.
Merck & Co. merged with the ISA Group in 1997 to form Hubbard ISA and is why ISA Browns are sometimes referred to as Hubbard ISA Brown.
The company was merged with Hendrix Poultry Breeders in 2005 ISA became part of Hendrix Genetics.

If ISA Brown is the brand name for those specific birds, then what would you consider the generic name to be? I thinking "red sexlink" works very well for that purpose.

If you find any company with an actual trademark on the term "Red Sexlink," please point me to that information. I don't want to be misusing it, if someone really did trademark it.

 

[GirlsHuntToo]

Maybe a mix of Red Sexlink and New Hampshire Red?. Those blueish color feet are throwing me off!

 

[NatJ]

Maybe a mix of Red Sexlink and New Hampshire Red?. Those blueish color feet are throwing me off!

New Hampshires have yellow feet.

The most common red sexlinks also have yellow feet.

It should not be possible to get blueish feet from any possible mix of those two kinds.

I don't really know what mix to suggest. I'm trying to think of chickens that have dark feet, but I'm only coming up with breeds that show other comb types (Buttercup, Hamburg with rose comb, Ameraucana and many Easter Eggers with pea combs), and they all lay other egg colors too. So I don't have any useful suggestions right now.

 

[Chickchicknewbie]

New Hampshires have yellow feet.

The most common red sexlinks also have yellow feet.

It should not be possible to get blueish feet from any possible mix of those two kinds.

I don't really know what mix to suggest. I'm trying to think of chickens that have dark feet, but I'm only coming up with breeds that show other comb types (Buttercup, Hamburg with rose comb, Ameraucana and many Easter Eggers with pea combs), and they all lay other egg colors too. So I don't have any useful suggestions right now.

So much to learn from all of you! Thanks for taking the time to answer! I initially thought something along the lines of RIR but the feet really had me stumped lol
Guess we'll never know as I said in one of my previous answers the people I got her from really weren't very knowledgeable, they sold me an exchequer leghorn claiming it was a wyandotte regardless they kept her happy and healthy and I guess I can live with not knowing what she is lol
Her name is Petal now and she's a very good layer