Can a Golden Sex Link have some black colored feathers? (pics)

[M To The Maxx]

Can a Golden Sex Link have some black colored feathers? Because 2 of my sexlinks do and one doesn't. Here are the 2 that have a little black and the one that doesn't.

Here is the one that doesn't. She is the one in the back.

Any ideas?

 

[RAREROO]

I think the sexlinks from Delaware hens and RIR roos have black feathers instead of white.

 

[M To The Maxx]

The store I got them from as chicks they said that they were Golden Sex Links.

 

[M To The Maxx]

Anyone else?

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

They are not sex-links. They are production reds. The bottom photo is of an Easter Egger pullet.

The only sex-link you have photoed is the one behind the Easter Egger in the last photo.

 

[wombat]

I got some chicks from a friend who only had six hatch, and wanted larger groups to raise together.

Two of mine look just like that, with the black feathering.

I know the roo was a RIR, as that's all he had in the pen at the time. The hens were anybody's guess, as he has quite a few and was not trap nesting. Mine may very well be from Delaware hens, as this guy has several. We also got some "golden comet" looking hens from the same batch of chicks. He's got several rock hens, some delawares, some RIRs, a few naked necks, and some RIR-mutts in the pens my batch came from ... sorry if that's no help, but it kinda supports Rareroo's theory that they could be RIR over Delaware.

 

[M To The Maxx]

How is that possible because the people at the feed store got them from a hatchery. I trust the people at the feed store but I believe you guys too. This is confusing!!!!!! I got them from a great feed store that has never let me down with chicks. I am just saying.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

People at a feed store work FOR the feed store. They write down whatever is written down on a piece of paper from the hatchery. Feed store people are not 100% correct and rarely ever correct it seems.

The piece of paper may have not had production red written down as a possibility, so they threw the production reds into the same bin as the sex-link females. (Let's face it, they're all red. They must have assumed they were all the same.)

 

[Chris09]

rodriguezpoultry is right there production reds..


Chris

 

[M To The Maxx]

I just found a couple white feathers on their wing and tail. What does that mean? Still a Production Red?