Red sex link

[Vero272]

Amazing red sex link mom!!! The fertile eggs comes from two red sex link parents!
The rooster was a mistake as he is red and not white so he was mistaken as a pullet at first! (Which saved his life)
One of the chick is white!!! Even from two dark red parents!!!
Any chance it’s a male? Since the father didn’t get the gene to make him white but he got it? Not sure if logical though!!!

 

[NatJ]

View attachment 4191864View attachment 4191865Amazing red sex link mom!!! The fertile eggs comes from two red sex link parents!
The rooster was a mistake as he is red and not white so he was mistaken as a pullet at first! (Which saved his life)
One of the chick is white!!! Even from two dark red parents!!!
Any chance it’s a male? Since the father didn’t get the gene to make him white but he got it? Not sure if logical though!!!

It would help if you post a picture of the father, if you're trying to figure out why one chick is white.

Are you sure about which chickens are the parents? No other roosters available? No other hens that could possibly have contributed eggs? Chickens can be pretty sneaky sometimes.

 

[Ridgerunner]

I agree, a photo of the father might help. Also, where did you get the father? If a hatchery, which hatchery? I assume you ordered a red sex link. Did that hatchery have a name for the chicks other than just "red sex link"?

Another photo of that "white" chick might help, a photo showing the head. The head looks red.

Any chance it’s a male?

With what little we know there is a 50% chance it is male. The offspring of sex links are not sex links.

 

[Vero272]

I agree, a photo of the father might help. Also, where did you get the father? If a hatchery, which hatchery? I assume you ordered a red sex link. Did that hatchery have a name for the chicks other than just "red sex link"?

Another photo of that "white" chick might help, a photo showing the head. The head looks red.


With what little we know there is a 50% chance it is male. The offspring of sex links are not sex links.

 

[Vero272]

It would help if you post a picture of the father, if you're trying to figure out why one chick is white.

Are you sure about which chickens are the parents? No other roosters available? No other hens that could possibly have contributed eggs? Chickens can be pretty sneaky sometimes.

I have posted a picture of the rooster on an other comment! I live in a very rural town in eastern Canada red sex link are the norm we don’t have much choices! The rooster was supposed to be a female because it was born looking like the other female sex link! Saved by an anomaly

 

[Vero272]

I agree, a photo of the father might help. Also, where did you get the father? If a hatchery, which hatchery? I assume you ordered a red sex link. Did that hatchery have a name for the chicks other than just "red sex link"?

Another photo of that "white" chick might help, a photo showing the head. The head looks red.


With what little we know there is a 50% chance it is male. The offspring of sex links are not sex links.

I will take a picture tomorrow! We can only see the bum of the white chick! The other one is pale reddish!

 

[NatJ]

I have posted a picture of the rooster on an other comment! I live in a very rural town in eastern Canada red sex link are the norm we don’t have much choices! The rooster was supposed to be a female because it was born looking like the other female sex link! Saved by an anomaly

Pretty rooster!

Something clearly got mixed up in the breeding pen at the hatchery, because a Red Sexlink male is not supposed to look like that!

If that rooster is the father, and the mother was a Red Sexlink, then I'm not sure what caused one chick to be yellow. Do you have any other colors of hens at all? A funny thing is that solid black chickens can produce yellow chicks if they mate with a white-tailed one like your rooster.

 

[Ridgerunner]

Yes, I can see why you have a question. With those parents you should not get a white chick. That rooster is not a red sex link male, at least first generation. His parents may have both been red sex links.

Looking forward to the photo of that chick. I think it will have a white body and a red head when it feathers out. @NatJ, that makes me think Birchen crossed with dominant white. Vero272, for that to happen that rooster could be the father but the mother would probably be black with a red or white head.

 

[Vero272]

Pretty rooster!

Something clearly got mixed up in the breeding pen at the hatchery, because a Red Sexlink male is not supposed to look like that!

If that rooster is the father, and the mother was a Red Sexlink, then I'm not sure what caused one chick to be yellow. Do you have any other colors of hens at all? A funny thing is that solid black chickens can produce yellow chicks if they mate with a white-tailed one like your rooster.

Every chicken that lives in my neighborhood is a red sex link! The rooster and Hen in the picture is from two different neighbours! The chicks will be mine though

 

[NatJ]

Every chicken that lives in my neighborhood is a red sex link! The rooster and Hen in the picture is from two different neighbours! The chicks will be mine though

In that case, I don't know what to say, other than to see how it looks when it grows feathers.

I'd really like to see updated pictures in a month or so