Show off your Red sex-links!! [[pictures included]] !! (:

[ChickensNCoffee]

This is softey (my 9 year named her). Swinging in the rain.

Can't decide if this is a Roo. Tail is very pointy it seems. This is Nuggett (my 3 year old named it)

This is winner winner. My husband named her.

 

[MamaDoolittle]

This is Harriet. She just laid a 79.1g egg!

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Does anyone have any pics of there red sexlinks eggs one of mine lays really dark eggs like a black or blue copper Maran.

Here is one of her eggs from today. Yesterday's was darker but today's is the one I took a pic of.

 

[love laugh farm]

Does anyone have any pics of there red sexlinks eggs one of mine lays really dark eggs like a black or blue copper Maran.



Here is one of her eggs from today. Yesterday's was darker but today's is the one I took a pic of.

Kitchen light

sunlight

same eggs in both pics. This was their 3rd day laying, The eggs are now darker and most speckled. I'll try to take pics today of ours, They've been laying 1-2/day per hen! We are averaging 18-19 per week for 2 hens! Best $10 ever spent for a started pol pullet!

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

Ya I have only had my three red sexlinks for a few days but that ones eggs are dark outside when collecting and inside when washing and dating the eggs.

 

[cmom]

Does anyone have any pics of there red sexlinks eggs one of mine lays really dark eggs like a black or blue copper Maran.



Here is one of her eggs from today. Yesterday's was darker but today's is the one I took a pic of.

I get some like that too. My Sex-Links are usually the ones that lay the darker colored eggs.



The white egg in the upper left corner is from one of my Leghorns but I get all shades of brown eggs.

 

[philipdj]

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i wanna ask, which the better.. light always on during the night or shut down so that they sleep well thanks

 

[TheTwoRoos]

Chicks will take various naps but do not sleep the whole night.They will get up various times to eat and drink which they need at all times.And they are never gonna get full naps either since others wilk be moving around.

Simoly having ut dark in the room could cause them to panic....Chickens have night blindness and these chicks just do not need all dark yet...

 

[cmom]

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Chicks will take various naps but do not sleep the whole night.They will get up various times to eat and drink which they need at all times.And they are never gonna get full naps either since others wilk be moving around.

Simoly having ut dark in the room could cause them to panic....Chickens have night blindness and these chicks just do not need all dark yet...

The chicks nap off and on night and day regardless of the light. The lights I use are used primarily as a heat source. They eat, drink and poop throughout the days and nights. The do not move if the light burns out, which is rare the light bulb burns out but it has happened. They just kind of freeze in place and as soon as I change the light bulb they are active again once there is light. They don't sleep at night like the older birds do.

 

[philipdj]

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so.. it is good or bad the light always on..?