Pullets combs going red too early

[EvansMeXo]

I was reading that when a pullets comb turns red it's close to laying, However mine are way to young to be laying so could it mean something is wrong with them?? One is a red sexlink (unknown age but I think around 8 weeks) the other is a cream legbar female roughly the same age. Could it mean their sick? I don't have pictures right now but their pretty red

 

[alexa009]

Chickens having a red comb can show signs of egg-laying, especially how early red sex links legbars lay since they are smaller breeds, can you get a pic?

 

[Kiki]

8 weeks is kinda young for RED comb girls.

 

[MissNutmeg]

Could they possibly be cockerels then????

 

[MissNutmeg]

 

[alexa009]

Yes, cockerels are possible, but if your red sex link is red then I don't know how it could be, with red sex links males and females are totally different colors.
Can you post a pic of possible?

 

[rebrascora]

If you are reasonably sure about the age of 8 weeks give or take a couple of weeks, it is sounding like someone may have taken advantage of you and dumped some cockerels on you. Being sick usually makes their combs pale. Red combs before they reach adolescence usually means they are males.
Sex links and legbars should be able to be sexed at hatch, but if the person who bred them doesn't know what they are doing or got the hatch mixed up, that could explain their incorrect gender.

Where did you get them from and how long ago?
Photos will help us to confirm that they are pullets (or otherwise ), when you have the opportunity to take some. A close up head shot showing the comb and a reasonably close up side profile of each whole chick will make the job of identification of gender easier.

 

[EvansMeXo]

I don't have any recent pics of them but I'll post one of each the cream legbar I'm 100% certain is a female, their an auto sex breed, I have a male and a female the same age from two different breeders and she looks totally different from him.
The red sexlink I could be wrong about, I bought the two in the pic at the same time, one is supposed to be a sexed production white layer and the other a sexed brown egg layer and I was told on here that she is a sexlinked (I was worried the guy was just passing her off as a sexed female). These pics are prob about 1-2 weeks old, their combs started darkening after this. Their in their roosts for the night I'll try to get pics tomorrow before i go to town

 

[keesmom]

I'm not familiar with Legbars, so I'll leave that one for someone else.

In the other picture the sex link and white Leghorn look like pullets. Current pics would help.

 

[EvansMeXo]

One of these lovely dark ladies was my legbar female but who knows what one she was lol (she was not one of the lighter ones those are the cockerels)