Golden Comet question is he really a boy??????

[AHappychick]

wrong pic one sec....

ok here are the 2 next to each other after hatch. the "boy" is in the glass cup thing

here is the hatch after the first one came out

 

[CovenantCreek]

Those eggs are white.....that changes everything!

All varieties of red sex links come from brown eggs. Now I'm thinking the chick in the original pic looks a lot like my Leghorn chicks....... in particular, Spot, the California White or Ideal 236 or whatever other variety has black spots. As long as the one you sold as a pullet doesn't have a large, bright pink comb yet it's probably a pullet as well. The Leghorn cockerels are easily identified within 2-3 weeks.

 

[monarc23]

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Is this a chick you hatched or one you purchased? If, as you said initially, this is one you hatched -- and it is indeed a Golden Comet (mom was a silver-factored White Rock and dad was a New Hampshire Red) -- then it's a cockerel. it is not just white rocks and new hampsire reds you can breed together to get sexlinks...it's also any RED roo not even a purebred to a silver factored hen (white silver factored hen)....RIRs are used a lot in breeding this

On the other hand, if you purchased Golden Comets and this is their offspring, it could very well be a pullet. Golden Comets are hybrids (a mix of two specific breeds that produces consistent results), they aren't a true breed and therefore will never be able to reproduce themselves. Their chicks will be barnyard mutts that can't be sexed when they hatch. If this is the case, the chick in question could be a pullet (and the one not in question could be a cockerel). They also can't be sold as Golden Comets since they're second generation produced by mixed breed parents.

 

[monarc23]

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NO SEX LINKS DO NOT COME FROM BROWN EGGS!?!?!?! SOME DO...not all. DO your research. IM mad and am getting off this post now. There is way too many misconceptions about these breeds.


Also this may mean that the WLH hens did not carry silver factor....but any i had hatched turned out to be waht they were to be.


YOU CAN GET GOLDEN COMET SEX LINKS OUT OF WHITE EGGS... ROO HAS TO CARRY THE RED GENE< HEN HAS TO CARRY THE SILVER GENE.


ALSO the white leghorn hens are not those californias. They are pure white leghorns....no black spots. yes some babies came out with blakc spots from thsi crossing the pures did not.

 

[Kelpie]

I think it's a California white pullet. It's definately not a golden comet, a neither are the others if they came from those eggs.

 

[CovenantCreek]

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Golden Comets only come from the combination of a silver-factored White Rock hen and a NHR roo. Other combinations produce other varieties of red sex links, but not Golden Comets.

 

[monarc23]

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GOOD LORD I DID NOT SELL HER A PURE CALIFORNIA!!! BTW if your statement is correct (which it is not) then why do some hatch out red...HMMMMM!!!! I'm not going to be accused of being a liar about what i sold. I told everyone that it was RIR over WLH hen (which crossed is called a golden comet AKA red sex link).


THIS IS THE FLOCK (no white leghorn roo) the flock consists of white leghorn hens, and a large RIR roo (eta: and pure rir hens which ofcourse lay brown eggs and would produce pure RIRs):

so funny that i will be selling over 100 of these to another BYCer who agrees with me that that crossing gives you sexlinks...

this is my roo i kept, i sold the others (as any roos were going for meat and i didint want him to go for meat--in the end i did cull him though because he started flogging me and pecking at me if he was startled):

Hopefully the red chick did ceom from a silver hen, and that way your customer wont get upset. I asusme you kept this one for culling anyhow, so either this way you've got yourself a nonsex link (from a non silver carring hen), hen for eggs if you so choose, or meat...

 

[monarc23]

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Golden Comets only come from the combination of a silver-factored White Rock hen and a NHR roo. Other combinations produce other varieties of red sex links, but not Golden Comets.

golden comet is a hatchery term.... it means red sex link.

 

[CovenantCreek]

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NO SEX LINKS DO NOT COME FROM BROWN EGGS!?!?!?! SOME DO...not all. DO your research. IM mad and am getting off this post now. There is way too many misconceptions about these breeds.


Also this may mean that the WLH hens did not carry silver factor....but any i had hatched turned out to be waht they were to be.


YOU CAN GET GOLDEN COMET SEX LINKS OUT OF WHITE EGGS... ROO HAS TO CARRY THE RED GENE< HEN HAS TO CARRY THE SILVER GENE.


ALSO the white leghorn hens are not those californias. They are pure white leghorns....no black spots. yes some babies came out with blakc spots from thsi crossing the pures did not.

I think you missed my point completely -- the OP said these chicks were Golden Comets -- a specific variety of RSL that comes out of a brown shelled egg. The eggs pictured were white, meaning they were NOT Golden Comet chicks, but rather chicks from some breed/hybrid of white egg layer. White Rock hens lay brown eggs, regardless of whether they're silver factored or not.

I AM assuming that the chicks are most likely a Leghorn hybrid because the one pictured in the original post looks like my Leghorn pullets -- most of which are "White Only White" Leghorns, but one of which isn't because she has black spots. I don't know what variety she is but of the varieties Ideal sells both the Ideal 236 and the California White have black spots.

 

[AHappychick]

First off please dont worry Monarc I am very happy with "it" I am not worried about the other guy who bought the redder one I can always replace it. Yep I kept this one to be a broiler so if its a hen what a NICE suprise for me

I would never think you sold me anything that was not ligit, please you give some of the best info here on BYC.

as for the golden cometts I think that they were indeed golden Comets never questioned that I just think I got lucky and have an opps which will work out for me MUCH better. either way I am happy