Did my hen just try to crow?

[janizona]

I've been reading about the red sex-link chickens and I believe since this "hen" is mostly white, she's a rooster. Am I correct??

 

[PlatypusPerry]

Correct. If it's a red sex link then the females are always a red in color and the males always a white in color.

Do you know if that is a sex link for sure because even at birth the color difference is obvious so I always thought ordering or buying a sex link was pretty much a sure thing?

 

[janizona]

I ordered 10 females from purely poultry. Two have turned out to be roosters, the red sex-link and one araucana that started crowing at 8 weeks. They are about 12 weeks now.

Thanks for the reply. Darn it though!

 

[hdowden]

thats a cockerel...did they send extras?? if they did then you can almost 100% count on those being males although they do sometimes send females by mistake as extras

 

[BlueCamas]

Red sex-link cockerel.

 

[purelypoultry]

I am very sorry for the inconvenience. We would be happy to give your store credit or a refund for the roosters. Please give us a call or send us an email to chicks at purelypoultry.com and we would be happy to fix this.

 

[NovaAman]

Well, that is really cool! I mean the statement from Purely Poultry.