Gender confused red sex link/ISA brown

[Yonny]

That’s a pretty big comb and wattle compared to the others. I included baby pic for good measure. 9weeks in 2 days.

 

[RainbowHen]

So long as she is truly an ISA brown she is a female. The males are white.

 

[TheOddOneOut]

She is not true I bet. I mean, HE is not true.

 

[Yonny]

Suppose it could also be a golden comet

 

[TheOddOneOut]

Suppose it could also be a golden comet

Same thing, different name.

 

[JadeFarms]

That’s a cockerel. I had a rooster that looked just like a girl,

 

[Yonny]

Whatever it is came from Hoover’s (they’re both listed on the brown egg production pack. )
So far it’s the only obvious cockerel in the group of “all pullets” so cant complain too much.

 

[keesmom]

Where did you get the chicks? Unfortunately many get sex linked chicks thinking they will breed yet more sex links, but that is not the case.

 

[Yonny]

I ordered from TSC website so they came straight from Hoover’s Hatchery to me instead of the store.

 

[keesmom]

If that is a cockerel, there is no way it could possibly be a first generation red sex link cross. Pullets are always red/gold and cockerels are white/silver. The genetics cannot give any other option in a first generation cross. So either:

1. it's a pullet, and a very early developing one
2. cockerel, but not a sex link
3. they outsourced with the overload of orders, and got someone who bred red sex links together, and it's a 2nd generation sex link