Breeding my own Golden Comets

[Cowgirl71]

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I'm wanting to save a bunch of money by hatching my own, and also I just really enjoy hatching. It's addictive.

 

[RAREROO]

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Thank you! Have you EVER gotten a white pullet from your RIW sex-links? How easy are they to sex as day olds (are the two colorings different enough)? Photos, if you have them, would be very appreciated. Thank you RareRoo... I've learned so much from you about sex-links.

Yes They are easy to sex as day olds. I haven't hatched a white pullet but I haven't hatched many, just what I needed. I just got you some pics of my youngest and oldest groups so you can see the difference.

Here is a pair of the youngest ones at about a week old. Pullet on the left, roo on the right.

Here are some that are probably about two months old.

And this is on I wanted to show just becuase he is cool, I don't know how to describe is color other than white barred which sounds absurd becuase how can you have a white barred birds, but you can see faint barring, it's not black barring, and not really even grey, I dont know how to desribe it. He hatched with the sexlinks and I thought the genes in my RIWs were messed up when he came out white with black dots on him and like happens when crossing a dom white hen with now Silver genes. But when he started showing the barring, I remembered that he must be from the Black sexlink rooster that I had with the RIW hens before I put the speckled Sussex roo in.

and a close up so maybe you can see the barring better.

Here are his parents

and here is the SS roo I used on the RIW hens

 

[Cowgirl71]

Thank you! That one with the white barring is very cool! Are you planning to keep him?

After seeing these photos, I'm very excited to produce sex-links myself! I love hatching, and dislike spending $150 on sexed pullets every year. But I also hate raising straight run chicks. I'd sooner buy sexed pullets from a hatchery than raise some free straight run chicks. So breeding my own sex-links is VERY apealing to me.

 

[schellie69]

I have heard that using a RIR hen and RIW male will get you a sex link also that is what I thought some called the golden comet I read it on the sub-breed on byc home page about breeds they are really nice looking birds.

 

[silkydragon]

could i make white hens if i did the oposite like rir hens and white rock roo?

 

[Cowgirl71]

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Yes, the hens would be white. Although they would NOT be sex-links... Both sexes would be white.

 

[deerman]

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No that wouildn't give yousex link.

RIR X RIW hens will not give hybrid they will still be RI...(will be sex link ,no better layers)

Golden comet are from white rock hens and red roosters.....they are hybrids too

Other sex links out there with different name, from other hens,

 

[RAREROO]

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You are welcome.

I will grow off the white barred one just to see how he turns out but I don't know what I would do with him.

 

[RAREROO]

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No That wont work, like deerman said, you have to have a gold gene roo on silver gene hens to make sexlinks.

 

[RAREROO]

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They wouldn't be sexlinked and I don't think you should get white hens. Since your white rock roo would be recessive white, then he would most likely be masking black or barring. So breeding him to red hens would probably be like if you were breeding a black or a barred rooster to the red hens so I would think that you would get chicks ranging anywhere from black with red leakage ( like black sexlink hens) to probably some that are red .

If you used a dominant white roo like a RIW or a White leghorn, you may get some white hens that way, but either way, they wouldn't be sexlinked.