Green eggs, red sex link?

[Ckberg]

My young chickens have started laying eggs. I have 5 chickens, 3 that seem like red sex links (golden comets maybe) and two that people on here identified as white plymouth rocks. The red sex links have all the characteristics of laying hens (like squatting and full red comb) while the possible plymouths show none, being that they're younger. However we got eggs nobody would have expeted, light green ones! I don't know who's laying them, but one of my hens I've found sitting on the green eggs, the red sex link. We have also gotten some brown eggs. What in the world is going on lol

 

[Doc7]

What you have is an Easter Egger in your flock. A red sex link can have blue egg genes in her and be an EE no problem. Not typical. But you can breed a blue egg gene into any breed you want and make an EE. As an RSL is already not a breed but a technique, you’ve just got an “enhanced“ one.

Note - sitting on eggs is in no way indicative that she laid that egg. But if you had 5 birds that all look the same and were sold as Red Sex Links, If one is laying green eggs she’d be an Easter Egger.

(red sex Link means chicken bred with particular parentage, which can be many different breeds, to indicate barring or lack thereof at birth and indicate males vs females based on down color. EE means mutt chicken with A blue egg gene. Therefore, a chicken can be both a Red Sex Link and an Easter Egger simultaneously).

 

[sealer39]

Where did you buy the chicks from?

 

[Doc7]

I am curious about the “white rocks”, could be a snowy EE from MyPetChicken, a green queen from Meyer, etc.
But an EE / RSL would be cool, I would like to breed one for example purposes in this forum. Lots of people have assumptions about EEs / green legs, etc, and a Red Sex Link Easter Egger sure would blow some minds.

 

[Ckberg]

Where did you buy the chicks from?

I got them from a friend who got them from Theisen's (a local feed store), he didn't know what kinds they are

 

[Ckberg]

I am curious about the “white rocks”, could be a snowy EE from MyPetChicken, a green queen from Meyer, etc.
But an EE / RSL would be cool, I would like to breed one for example purposes in this forum. Lots of people have assumptions about EEs / green legs, etc, and a Red Sex Link Easter Egger sure would blow some minds.

The chickens were sourced from Hoovers Hatchery in Iowa if that helps any. Should I send a picture of my white chickens?

 

[sealer39]

The chickens were sourced from Hoovers Hatchery in Iowa if that helps any. Should I send a picture of my white chickens?

They are probably Starlight Green Eggers then. Basically the same as an Easter Egger.
https://hoovershatchery.com/colored-eggs.html
Sure, post a pic of the whites too.

 

[Doc7]

They are probably Starlight Green Eggers then. Basically the same as an Easter Egger.
https://hoovershatchery.com/colored-eggs.html

Agree

“lookalike” red sex links but prob not

thanks for this great example!

95% of people would misidentify that bird visually

 

[Ckberg]

They are probably Starlight Green Eggers then. Basically the same as an Easter Egger.
https://hoovershatchery.com/colored-eggs.html
Sure, post a pic of the whites too.

 

[sealer39]

I know it’s not a White Leghorn or a California White. Amberlink or Rhode Island White maybe?