Madonna is a MAN? My Sex Link and Ameraucana are both roo's?

[jasminty]

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Well it's (supposed to be) a light/gold sex link which are not quite as red as the others. I have seen them be girls with some white underneath, but I am looking at other pics of male sex links and they looks just the same! I thought males would be ALL white (or yellow as chicks)! that was my one absolute guarantee (but they were ALL supposed to be pullets)

 

[silkiechicken]

Boys like everyone else says including yourself.

I've seen a bin of sexlink chicks at the feed store containing both male and female sexlinks. However, the feed store was correct in that the sexlinks were not labeled pullets! So I'm sure some unsuspecting person saw it and automatically assumed all female.

 

[punky rooster]

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[banjoejoe4783]

gold sex link are the same ass red sex link or cinamenqueens or golden comets they are prity much the same bird sorry if the hacherys foold you

 

[Illia]

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LOL! Definitely denial!! And yes I vote for rooster muzzles!

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Illia if not Ameraucana then what? It seems like their looks can have a pretty wide variation from what I've seen, and it looked like/hatched from a batch of Ameraucana - sent from the hatchery

The thing that baffles me the most is the Sex Link. Is it just not a sex link then? It looked like a girl as a chick (with cinnamon down the back, and was not all yellow like a boy would be) And now is still not all white!!!


Thanks Kassaundra. I love the coloring too, makes me even more sad to have to get rid of him

That is a Sex Link boy, trust me. Girls will be SOLID brown with tiny bits of white. Boys will be white with brown and red shoulders.

The other is an Easter Egger. It's a crossbred chicken that carries the blue egg gene, but if it were a girl is likely to lay a green egg. Real Ameraucanas are not sold at hatcheries - Despite the lies that hatcheries will tell you.

 

[jasminty]

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Illia I would love to see pictures of your girls, so I can see the real deal. I have read that about hatcheries as well. I have another EE that lays the biggest pale green eggs, which is why I got two more.

Thanks everybody, now I just need to figure out what to do with them. I don't think my neighbors would be very pleased if I keep either!

 

[Illia]

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Illia I would love to see pictures of your girls, so I can see the real deal. I have read that about hatcheries as well. I have another EE that lays the biggest pale green eggs, which is why I got two more.

Thanks everybody, now I just need to figure out what to do with them. I don't think my neighbors would be very pleased if I keep either!

Black Ameraucana pullet

broody and fluffed up Blue Ameraucana pullet

Wheaten Ameraucana pullet

And some Araucanas. . . .

Brown-Red (project color) Araucana pullet

Splash Araucana pullet

Silver Duckwing Araucana pullet

Most of my tufted Araucanas are my boys though, as breeding a tufted x tufted can genetically kill off 25% of the chicks before they hatch.

Sadly my only laying Easter Egger hen lays brown eggs. . . . I've got some Easter Eggers I made myself with Araucana or Ameraucana parents, but they're months away from laying eggs.