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

[cmom]

Not the best pic but here is a pic from today of my two RSL girls (and 2 BRs), celebrated their 15wk birthday today

 

[mpgo4th]

Both Red and Black Sex-Links use a red male for the father. Either a Rhode Island Red or a New Hampshire may be used.

Black Sex-Links are produced using a Barred Rock as the mother. Both sexes hatch out black, but the males have a white dot on their heads. Pullets feather out black with some red in neck feathers. Males feather out with the Barred Rock pattern along with a few red feathers. Black Sex-Links are often referred to as Rock Reds.

Red Sex-Links are the result of various crosses. White Rocks with the silver factor (the dominant white gene would produce all white offspring) are crossed with a New Hampshire male to produce the Golden Comet. Silver Laced Wyandotte crossed with New Hampshire gives the Cinnamon Queen. Two other crosses are obtained with Rhode Island White x Rhode Island Red, and Delaware x Production Red or Rhode Island Red. These two crosses are simply called Red Sex-Links. Males hatch out white and, depending on the cross, feather out to pure white or with some black feathering. Females hatch out buff or red also depending on cross, and they feather out in one of three ways.

Buff with white or tinted undercolor (such as Golden Comet, Rhode Island Red x Rhode Island White)
Red with White or tinted undercolor (Cinnamon Queen)
Red with Red undercolor (Delaware x Production Red or Rhode Island Red) (In this color pattern it is almost impossible to distinguish daughters' color from father's color.)

I hope this gives you some ideas. Good luck and have fun...

Red Sex Links using RIR males and RIW females. This was an experiment I did. Then I did a 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation to see what I would get from this cross.

Great work you are doing. My question is this, I have 6 RSL that are a RIR crossed with RIW female. I just added a new RIR rooster from a different blood line. When I hatch out their eggs what color chickens should I get?

 

[cmom]

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The white chicks are the males the buff colored are the females.


Females


There are RSL's and RIR chicks here.

 

[mpgo4th]

The white chicks are the males the buff colored are the females.


Females


There are RSL's and RIR chicks here.

Yes I know how to get a sexlink. I was wondering what you get when you cross a red sex link back to a RIR roo.

 

[kada6305]

The golf balls worked. I put a few inside the coop then a few outside the coop where I want them laying as well when they aren't I'm coop. Woke up to one white egg. So one of our leghorns layed. Also discovered that our rooster crowd when one of his hens lays

? Lol

 

[cmom]

Yes I know how to get a sexlink. I was wondering what you get when you cross a red sex link back to a RIR roo.

With a RSL back to a RIR male you can get about any color. Some are white, some look like RIR, some black or gray and white.
These are all 2nd generation RSL.


The brown chicks are 2nd generation males.


You have to click on the image to make it larger then you can see the darker gray/black chicks too. Many of these are crosses of RSL females and RIR male. I have some Heritage RIR and RIW's too.




This is a mix of chicks.

 

[LibRat]

The golf balls worked. I put a few inside the coop then a few outside the coop where I want them laying as well when they aren't I'm coop. Woke up to one white egg. So one of our leghorns layed. Also discovered that our rooster crowd when one of his hens lays

? Lol

My rooster Pigpen comes to the porch and looks in the window and crows after Lucy lays her egg. Like "it's hot out here come get that egg before it rots"

 

[mpgo4th]

With a RSL back to a RIR male you can get about any color. Some are white, some look like RIR, some black or gray and white.
These are all 2nd generation RSL.


The brown chicks are 2nd generation males.


You have to click on the image to make it larger then you can see the darker gray/black chicks too. Many of these are crosses of RSL females and RIR male. I have some Heritage RIR and RIW's too.




This is a mix of chicks.

Can you breed the parent rooster back to the second gen birds or do you need a new bloodline rooster.

 

[kada6305]

LOL! exactly! good thing its cooler today than most days. only 65 F today. I think it's cute how he announces it haha Still waiting on duck eggs, they are 20 weeks and the khakis keep disappearing for an hour at a time, think they might have a nest somewhere and taking turns sitting.

 

[Too Fast]

Well that solves it....once you get the nest boxes theyll lay in there...yuou can leave the gold balls in there...not a big deal...I never needed any they just knew....once the first lays in there they all get the drift....I have 4 nest boxes for 25 chickens...and theyh only use 2 of them lol....

Not all of them are the smartest. One of our leghorns makes a bee-line for a shed to lay her egg. She waits until they are let out of the coop, then goes over. She's been like this for 2 weeks, maybe she'll never use the nest box. Our other 3 layers use the nest box, and now we have a 5th laying hen, who started 2 days ago. Up to 5 eggs a day now, from 6 hens! We have a golf ball in each of our 3 nest boxes.