Sexlink Thread- Pictures and Discussion

[PepsNick]

UPDATE: Lily is a xmas broody! Yay!

 

[PepsNick]

To the above post: Unfortunately Lily will be hatching no eggs. It's too late in the year and it just got pretty cold in Georgia, well for the south, that is. But I'm still very excited to have a broody, she's the first one of the year! Ever since we took a break from chickens a few years ago we hadn't had one. Just glad to know that we're officially back in the chicken biz.


And just FYI- I think I might do some bantam Sexlink breeding in the Spring in the coop I'm going to build out of complete recycled material.

ETA: Here is a picture of Lily next to her BFF Pepper on Thanksgiving, the day before the broodiness began.

 

[PepsNick]

RAREROO- Can you involve EE's in Sexlink breeding?

 

[RAREROO]

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Yes.

You can use EE roos on Barred Rock hens as long as the roo isnt a red and white pattern with no black showing, that means the white is Dominant white and his offspring will be mostly white and not easily sexable as chicks. But if he has white coloring with black included, then the white coloring is Silver and he will work as well as any rooster that isnt showing white at all . As long as he dosnt have dom white or barring, he will work to make Black Sexlinks.

If you can find a pure Gold gened EE roo that doesnt have any Silver, he will work on Silver breed hens to make Red Sexlinks

If you can find a pure Silver colored EE hen, since hens cant be split, they are either gold or Silver, so if you find Silver ones ( I have had two before) And breed them to a gold breed roo. That would work for Red Sexlinks. I wouldnt breed her to a gold EE though, those can be hard to sex becuase of the pattern. Somtimes a dark chocolate colored brown EE chick will turn out to be silver. So EE chick colors are confusing.

 

[PepsNick]

Thank you!


Today Lily is still on the nest box.

 

[77horses]

 

[PepsNick]

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hey! cant remember, have you been here before? let's see your sexlinks!

 

[77horses]

Hi everyone!

Thanks, PepsNick, for showing me this thread.

Just thought I would say I have 5 Red Star hens, and a Red Star/RIR mix rooster. All the hens are about 2 years old now, and the rooster is almost one year old. They live among many other chicken breeds, too. They are all so friendly and I love Red Stars because of their simple, yet gorgeous coloring and they lay so many large, delicious eggs. Although for me, right now, all of the Red Star hens are molting and the cold weather has set in, so there haven't been any eggs in a while now.

Pictures:

(Older pictures):
My first hens that my family got back in 2007, that were the start of my family's chicken-raising:

Peach: (peeking out from the nest box)

Apricot:

And, just to add in Seth the Black Jersey Giant rooster, who was also one of the first roosters we had (Marty the RIR is also one of them):

(R.I.P Seth, Apricot and Peach: 2007-2008)



Cinnamon the Red Star, when she was younger:

Cinnamon's 1st egg!

Linda the Red Star, when she was younger:

A picture of the four pullets from two years ago: two Buff Orpington pullets on the left (Setherina and Caramel), and the two Red Stars, Cinnamon and Linda, on the right.

A picture from last year, just before winter hit: (left to right: Linda in the far back, Cinnamon in the middle, and Marty the RIR rooster, 3.5 years old, closest)

Juno, the RIR/Red Star mix rooster, when he was a chick:

Baby chicks in their brooder box: (I can't really tell who they are, but probably Cinnamon and Linda)

(More recent pictures

(left to right: Abby, Marty the RIR, Cinnamon, and Suzy the Red Stars...though Suzy is a Red Star/RIR mix, like Juno...and yes, as you can see, poor Marty lost all the points on his comb (and most of his toes) due to horrible frost bite that he got last winter.

)

Cinnamon:

Juno: taken last summer, now that he's all big and grown up.

Cinnamon and another hen, not sure who, are running away in the background...lol

And that's all for now. Hope you enjoyed the pictures!

 

[Louieandthecrew]

Pretty!

 

[GammaPoppyLilyFlutter]

I love sexlinks! I have four gold sexlinks, and no other chickens.

Tigerlily

Poppy

Gamma

Flutter

Here's a picture of them when they were younger. I edited it Christmas-style

They are sitting on what is now their coop, before the walls were built.