A cinnamon queen is basically a variety of red sex link, and yes I believe she is one. She's very pretty 

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A cinnamon queen is basically a variety of red sex link, and yes I believe she is one. She's very pretty![]()
You probably know by now what you have but I saw no one had answered. I don't know about chicks we have only had hens so I'm no help.These are cq's from cackle hatchery. Do I have a boy and a girl, or is one just developing faster than the other? I think they are 3 weeks old.
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So a RIR roo crossed with a SLW hen IS a Cinnampn Queen?I agree that there should be consistencies in appellations. The problem is that there isn't, and because RSLs are hybrids, there likely never will be. As you stated yourself, "you would no more call a RIRxRIW a Cinnamon Queen than I would call a GSD x poodle a labradoodle," but that doesn't mean that others will always agree with you. My point is, when a member purchases a RIR X RIW cross that is marketed as a Cinnamon Queen (Cackle's for example), you cannot state with a universally recognized poultry governing authority behind you that this is not a Cinnamon Queen. Those who call RIR X RIW Cinnamon Queens have as much right and authority to do so as those who call RIR X SLW or HNR X SLW Cinnamon Queens. I agree with you that it's unfortunate, and I would love to see the APA officially recognize certain commercialized hybrids, but until they do so (which I think will be never), this kind of confusion over the RSL labels will continue to exist. That's why when members post their RSLs for identification on the What Breed or Gender is This? section, most of us who ID them on a regular basis simply reply that they are RSLs. Fortunately the problem is a little less compounded with the Black Sex Links, since all of the major hatcheries use RIR X BR for the cross.
A couple more pictures of them. The first one shortly after buying and the second was yesterday. I doubted the CQ label at first but now they are reddening up on their feathers so maybe the label was correctIs anyone still active on this thread? I got some rural king cinnamon queens that are said to be RIR/SLW cross. Two of them are showing reddening combs here at 4 weeks which has me concerned about having cockerels. Everything I'm reading says that this crossing is sex linked. Is this true?