- Oct 2, 2016
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So I got 4 Golden Sexlinks from Tractor Supply (My feed-store's first shipment didn't survive and they mentioned TS used the same hatchery as them) and 3 are doing great and I'm sure they are pullets. One though, I picked because the fluff was a lighter color than the others and I like to have diversity in my colors. I hadn't researched exactly how to tell these fluffs apart with the whole sexlink thing, so I assumed that all of them would be pullets because telling colors apart seems way more accurate than vent sexing. They are now almost 4 weeks old. I've included pictures of the main bird in question (I named it Princess Lay-A, but it may be Chick-Bock-A if a boy) Ranging from the first week to today. At first I was expecting to lose it because a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte I got with it failed to thrive and passed after after six days. They both had pasty butt and I tried treating and taking care of it but I'm not sure if that's what happened with the BLRW. She gets up, eats, drinks, poops, roosts, but is overall a very "chill" chick. Most of the time it's sitting on the little roost I built them to play on or snuggled up under the brooder hen heat plate thingy I have. Growth seems super slow. Only color coming in on the feathers (don't mind the poop) is one black tail feather. So I'm expecting this is a boy from what I've read on sexlinks, but at the same time, because the growth (size/feathers etc) is so much slower than the ones I'm sure are girls, I'm not even sure it's a sexlink. I figured I'd throw it out here for folks with more knowledge than me and see what the condenses is. Thank you in advance for your time and thoughts. 
But, maybe they just slipped in, and the workers perhaps didn't notice or care.
