I Have a Feeling I Know the Answer to My Question

[Blooie]

They are sex links....there is no question of their sex...they are both pullets because they are both the same color.....red sex link cockrels are white..


I had a red sex ling (gold buff, gold star, etc) that also had a prominent comb and was twice the size of the other chicks..if she hadn't been a sex link I would have thought she was a rooster....but she's a pullet and she lays eggs.

This lady has a very red face.....I knew that! How and why did I forget that??? I am so new to all of this that I think I let my know-everythingness overshadow my know-nothingness! I just looked back through my order and I did indeed order "Red Stars", as they are called from the hatchery I bought them from. I ordered 5 Red Stars, and I'll bet any money the reason that one of my "Buff Orpingtons" doesn't look like a "Buff Orpington" is because HE'S a Red Star too. Oh, for heaven's sake!! Why would anybody in their right mind send chicks to a person who obviously can't tell an Orpington from a Red Sex Link? That would explain why the cockerel I have is white with a tiny little bit of red on his feathers, wouldn't it? When I got them the Red Stars were all yellow with a kind of buff color on them, and the Buff Orpington chicks were all yellow. I guess I just mentally lumped all the yellow ones together or something, even though one of them was actually a male Red Sex Link. Now it makes sense......took a 2X4 but I finally think I get it. Mistaken identity from day one that just continued.

Um, kin I be done now? I think I've made enough of an idiot out of myself at this point! Sorry for putting everyone out. I guess as long as I learned something, right?


Charlie, the oddball Red Sex Link.