Sex please?

[Paz]

They hatched April 7-8th

Mothers and father:

 

[Sussex19]

RIR x Leghorns, I attached a photo of the parents

There could well be a bit of size difference there with those breeds.
The thing I'm not sure about, is whether that combination could produce sex-linked chicks.
@SilverBirds might know more.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

They all look like pullets but the males of this cross are white and the females are red. Unless I’m missing something the reds should be your only pullets.

The white leghorns used by hatcheries to make red sex links are a specific strain that has the silver gene. So these chicks are not sex links.

 

[NatJ]

They all look like pullets but the males of this cross are white and the females are red. Unless I’m missing something the reds should be your only pullets.

In this case, the different colors are caused by having different mothers.

The white chicks have the White Leghorn mothers, and are not sexlinks. Sex linking requires a gold father and a silver mother. In this case, the Leghorns gave their chicks Extended Black (makes the whole chicken black) and Dominant White (turns all black to white, except that it can miss a few bits.) With those genes, you cannot see the effects of silver & gold, even though the rooster is gold, and even if the hen did happen to have silver.

The red chick has the other mother, the hen that is mostly black with a gold necklace. It is also not a sexlink. (Or it has some other mother that is not a White Leghorn. I don't know if the photo shows all possible hens, or just some of them.)

 

[Sussex19]

They all look like pullets to me, unless there is anything breed specific that I'm missing.

 

[Paz]

What breed are the white ones?
Are they both the same breed? Size doesn't really mean that much, as far gender goes.

RIR x Leghorns, I attached a photo of the parents

 

[SilverBirds]

They all look like pullets.

 

[babychickens321]

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They hatched April 7-8th

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girls!!

 

[fluffycrow]

Pullets

 

[Party_Chicken]

They all look like pullets but the males of this cross are white and the females are red. Unless I’m missing something the reds should be your only pullets.