I need your help!

[PFHEthan]

Tomorrow I am going to pick up Cinnamon Queen chicks and because I am new to chickens I wanted to make sure that is what I am getting. Below are the pictures that were provided to me.

Thank you so much,
Ethan

 

[Griffinsong]

Those are Red Sex links. Which are known under many names[Including, indeed, Cinnamon Queens]. the reddish ones are the girls and the whitish ones the boys.

 

[PFHEthan]

So you do think that they are first gen?

 

[PFHEthan]

Those are Red Sex links. Which are known under many names[Including, indeed, Cinnamon Queens]. the reddish ones are the girls and the whitish ones the boys.

So you do think that they are first gen?

 

[Griffinsong]

Judging from visible color/comb size correlation they seem to be. Else you would get white looking females and buff males, too.

 

[PFHEthan]

Judging from visible color/comb size correlation they seem to be. Else you would get white looking females and buff males, too.

Thank you so much!

 

[donrae]

I'm not so sure they're first generation birds. What does the seller say? I'm seeing a lot of variation in color, and some of the birds with classic rsl female patterns look to have large-ish combs. I'd have a good talk with the seller to see what's up. They'd probably still be great layers, but not sex linked if they're not first generation.

 

[PFHEthan]

I'm not so sure they're first generation birds. What does the seller say? I'm seeing a lot of variation in color, and some of the birds with classic rsl female patterns look to have large-ish combs. I'd have a good talk with the seller to see what's up. They'd probably still be great layers, but not sex linked if they're not first generation. 

I didn't ask the seller because I didn't know about 1st gen 2nd gen thing I do plan on asking him tomorrow . From what I have read 2nd gen would just be a cq to a cq right. What does that make the chicks?

 

[donrae]

It makes them mixed breed birds

. Breeding a sex link to a sex link, or to any other bird, just gives you mixed breed birds of various colors. Rsl to rsl tends to give mostly red and white birds, but the color is no longer linked to the gender. You're just as likely to have a red rooster as a white hen, and everything in between. Like I said, they'll still be good layers, but be prepared for some roosters.

 

[PFHEthan]

It makes them mixed breed birds  . Breeding a sex link to a sex link, or to any other bird, just gives you mixed breed birds of various colors. Rsl to rsl tends to give mostly red and white birds, but the color is no longer linked to the gender. You're just as likely to have a red rooster as a white hen, and everything in between. Like I said, they'll still be good layers, but be prepared for some roosters. 

Right on, thank you!

P.s. I just had one of those ahh has moments followed by I'm a tard moments. Sex link simply means that their color is linked to their sex. Its that feeling you have when you are looking for your glasses and they have been on top of your hrad the whole time.....