Can someone identify breed?

[junebuggena]

Ok breeding question

I know red sex links are a cross between a Rhode Island Red Rooster and a Delaware hen. The chicks come out Roosters white, hens red because rooster take their color gene from momma, and hens get their color gene from papa.

So my question is this -
If my hens are Delaware does it really matter what the Roo Is? As long as he isn't white, won't the boy chicks be white and anything non white would be a hen?

You need a rooster that does not have any competing genes, and will allow the gold/silver down colors to be visible at hatching. If you use a rooster that is also silver base color, like a Dark Brahma, there won't be any sexlinking at all. The reason that Rhode Island Reds, Production Reds, and New Hampshires are the go-to roosters for redsexlinks, rather than a Gold laced Wyandotte, is because those roosters have genetics that allow for very clearly golden down for the pullets and very clearly silver down for the cockerels.

 

[drumstick diva]

agree

 

[mamahenmartinez]

I hatch and raise Easter Eggers. I raise about 50 to 100 chicks a year. Your's is, at most, 2 weeks old. Was likely under 3 days old when you purchased it.

Not possible for him to have been under 3 days old when I purchased him. I went to the ag place where I got him a week prior to buying him but did not have the funds at the time and the reason I went back and got him is because I asked them to call and notify me when he and all the other chicks he was with went on sale and they called because they had been there a week and they were getting in a new shipment of chicks the following morning. So maybe he is a late bloomer or a runt or something I dont know and he may not even be an easter egger. Could just be a bunch of different mixes that kinda resemble one.

 

[AlleysChicks]

Here is my 3 week old EE this week. I hatched this one so I know it's for a fact it's 3 weeks. She was hatched April 4th. Notice the almost complete lack of fuzz on the body. I have 2 other EE chicks that will be 2 weeks tomorrow. They look to be more at the feather stage as yours.

Edit to add this pic was taken Wednesday.

 

[junebuggena]

Not possible for him to have been under 3 days old when I purchased him. I went to the ag place where I got him a week prior to buying him but did not have the funds at the time and the reason I went back and got him is because I asked them to call and notify me when he and all the other chicks he was with went on sale and they called because they had been there a week and they were getting in a new shipment of chicks the following morning. So maybe he is a late bloomer or a runt or something I dont know and he may not even be an easter egger. Could just be a bunch of different mixes that kinda resemble one.

What are you feeding? It's definitely an Easter Egger. But either you aren't giving it the nutrition it needs to grow and feather in or you are keeping too warm.

 

[AshlyMommaWard]

The tells for your chick that make it very definitely an Easter egger are the muffs (fluffy cheeks), slate legs, wild type down pattern and pea comb. There are a few factors that can result in runty or slow to feather chicks, no way for us to know exactly why, but I agree that it's more in line with how feathered a 2 week old chick would be. Although it really is too early to know for sure, so don't write this chick off yet based on this, but slow feathering, plus well developed slightly raised comb (though still yellow), plus what I've only thought to call "grouch face" I'd guess that to be a cockerel. Junbuggena is the expert here on Easter eggers, I've raised quite a few but am not an expert, just as observant as I can be.
Best wishes.

 

[debid]

What are you feeding? It's definitely an Easter Egger. But either you aren't giving it the nutrition it needs to grow and feather in or you are keeping too warm.

OR, it's genetically tardy.