Red star or comet???

[HEChicken]

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Hmm...That's interesting. I just got a Red Star chick from MPC yesterday and she is not chipmunk looking (compared to other chipmunk pics I've seen on BYC posts). Unless maybe they substituted something else? I just figured this had to be the red star since I easily identified the others in the shipment and had never seen a red star chick before.

 

[henryetta]

\\just checking to see if my pic goes through.........soooooooo sorry if it's something crazy but its suppose to be my redstars and EE's

edited to say,,,,,didnt work

 

[JMPE]

I have a Red Star from MPC. She started out like this...

This is Alice at 2 weeks...

And again at 5 weeks

 

[HEChicken]

She's so pretty - and the day-old chick pic looks just like mine!

 

[IamChickenMama]

Thanks for the help everyone!!! It looks to me like the red stars were actually red as chicks??? I'll have to double check my chick pics (LOL!!!)

but I think they were yellow @ that stage!!!

 

[henryetta]

heres my girls.....mabie

kinda just trying to see if i can get this picture posting thing down..

 

[achieve1dream]

Yay you got it posted. Good job!

 

[Jarhead]

You can have lots of variety in what goes into a red sex link chicken. Different hatcheries call them different things, makes them sound fancier I guess. Here is basically how you can make them from the wiki. I know there are even more breeds you can use than this

Red sex-links are a cross between a Rhode Island Red or New Hampshire rooster and a White Rock, Silver Laced Wyandotte, Rhode Island White or Delaware hen.

So in the above example there are 8 different combos of birds that could have been used as the parents of your babies.

 

[egg-cellent]

Haha, they look like my Golden Comets.. I think they are the same too.. I have studied this too. I have found that the ones most people say are Golden Comets have a little more white in the back end, than the Red Stars. Just my thoughts.

 

[jeslewmazer]

Read this.... https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/261208/sex-linked-information It is all about Sex Links and has some of the breeds used to make the cross. It is a one time cross...Sex Links won't make more Sex Links.
Here is another good read with pictures. http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Sex-links/BRKSexLink.html