Breeding a red sex-link hen with a red sex-link Roo? a few PICS

[TriciaHowe]

http://feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Sex-links/BRKSexLink.html

Both Red and Black Sex-Links use a red male for the father. Either a Rhode Island Red or a New Hampshire may be used.

Black Sex-Links are produced using a Barred Rock as the mother. Both sexes hatch out black, but the males have a white dot on their heads. Pullets feather out black with some red in neck feathers. Males feather out with the Barred Rock pattern along with a few red feathers. Black Sex-Links are often referred to as Rock Reds.

Red Sex-Links are the result of various crosses. White Rocks with the silver factor (the dominant white gene would produce all white offspring) are crossed with a New Hampshire male to produce the Golden Comet. Silver Laced Wyandotte crossed with New Hampshire gives the Cinnamon Queen. Two other crosses are obtained with Rhode Island White x Rhode Island Red, and Delaware x Production Red. These two crosses are simply called Red Sex-Links. Males hatch out white and, depending on the cross, feather out to pure white or with some black feathering. Females hatch out buff or red also depending on cross, and they feather out in one of three ways.

Buff with white or tinted undercolor (such as Golden Comet, Rhode Island Red x Rhode Island White)
Red with White or tinted undercolor (Cinnamon Queen)
Red with Red undercolor (Delaware x Production Red) (In this color pattern it is almost impossible to distinguish daughters' color from father's color.)

All of the above courtesy of Feathersite.com

 

[hangin'witthepeeps]

I hatched some of my eggs SLW roo over RSL hens. I got whites with a cream color around the neck. I was able to sex them at 2 weeks. The roosters are HUGE and the hens are a good size too, but they are only 6 weeks and I have a long wait for eggs. I wanted the same as you, good brown egg producers. My RSL lay a large dark brown egg every day, I wonder if the eggs will be more tan/pink like the SLW or dark brown like the RSL and will they lay everyday?

 

[MIKE555444]

Here are pics of the two hatched end of Oct 2009. They looked white when hatched but I seen some red when the feathers started to come in.

Here are pics quite a bit later... you can see more red on the one hid in the back.

I need to get some new updated photos to show what they look like today at about 17-18 weeks old

 

[kyeschicks]

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[Paulo]

( I don't know if this thread is still active...?)

For egg production, someone said that Sex link birds are best at the first cross. Later generations will give some good layers and some very poor ones. Would it be worthwhile breedind the more productive ones

 

[Paulo]

Darn phone. )-:<

Would it be worthwhile breeding just the best ones (assuming they can be identified)? Would that give good results a few generations down the line?

 

[Chickem707]

I think my rooster could be a cross of them both?

 

[Lighteye]

Damn I wish this thread was still active. I bought (sex link) which I thought was first generation (meaning parents 2 different pure breed) but it turned out I was sold a cross of red sex link. The seller told me, as I requested, to have pullets only. But now that they're almost 3 months old, I noticed some of them have a curved tail like that of a rooster. Their parents where a typical sexlink of which the male are whitish and females are red/brown with white tails. The photo are some of my females. Some are darker almost chocolate in color. I also have same pattern but their tails are curved. So I guess they're not same with their sex link parents where the rooster are almost white

 

[Lighteye]

I think my rooster could be a cross of them both?

How old are they? I might have those but they're still almost 3 months so I can't tell for sure except for the tail