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

[Peep_Show]

Are those Cinnamon Queens?

 

[cmom]

Red Sex Links

Golden Comet, Gold Star, or Cinnamon Queen depending on the specific cross used) are produced by a number of different crosses. White Plymouth Rocks hens with the silver factor are crossed with a New Hampshire male to produce the Gold Comet. A Silver Laced Wynandotte hen is crossed with a New Hampshire rooster to produce the Cinnamon Queen. Additional possible red sex-link cross combinations are the Rhode Island White hen and a Rhode Island Red rooster Which produce a male that will hatch out white and can feather out to pure white or with some black feathering and the females Redish color with white on the tail feathers and maybe around the neck. A Delaware hen with a Rhode Island Red rooster. Males hatch out looking like the Delawares depending on the cross. Females hatch out red like the Rhode Island Red male. Coloring will depend on the cross, and they how they feather out. In the breedings the males can be either New Hampshire Reds but most use Rhode Island Reds.

Here is a picture of some Rhode Island Red and Red Sex link chicks.

 

[Cynthia12]

Red Sex Links

Golden Comet, Gold Star, or Cinnamon Queen depending on the specific cross used) are produced by a number of different crosses. White Plymouth Rocks hens with the silver factor are crossed with a New Hampshire male to produce the Gold Comet. A Silver Laced Wynandotte hen is crossed with a New Hampshire rooster to produce the Cinnamon Queen. Additional possible red sex-link cross combinations are the Rhode Island White hen and a Rhode Island Red rooster Which produce a male that will hatch out white and can feather out to pure white or with some black feathering and the females Redish color with white on the tail feathers and maybe around the neck. A Delaware hen with a Rhode Island Red rooster. Males hatch out looking like the Delawares depending on the cross. Females hatch out red like the Rhode Island Red male. Coloring will depend on the cross, and they how they feather out. In the breedings the males can be either New Hampshire Reds but most use Rhode Island Reds.

Here is a picture of some Rhode Island Red and Red Sex link chicks.

Are the white ones males? Oh yep...just reread your post. I have a nice white leghorn that if I breed to a RIR, would produce some nice RSL's. At lest that's what I was told about the person I bought the white leghorn from. That if I bred my leghorn to any red rooster, I would have a RSL. Interesting. I don't care how they are bred, I love the sexlinks..except the blacks. Not sure what/how they are bred, but I've had bad luck with them..personality.

 

[chickkrzi]

Are the white ones males?   Oh yep...just reread your post.  I have a nice white leghorn that if I breed to a RIR, would produce some nice RSL's.  At lest that's what I was told about the person I bought the white leghorn from.  That if I bred my leghorn to any red rooster, I would have a RSL.   Interesting.  I don't care how they are bred, I love the sexlinks..except the blacks.  Not sure what/how they are bred, but I've had bad luck with them..personality. 

Leghorn x RIR roo will not produce a sex link.
the pullets would still lay nice maybe cream eggs but will not be able to tell pullet from roo at hatch.

Check out this link, this is what you may end up with.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/430812/rir-roo-over-white-leghorn-hen

 

[cmom]

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I think chickkrzi is correct. If you do a google search there are some sites that say you can create Sex Links with this cross but I don't believe they are true. I may try it in the future. I have crossed RIR male with RIW female and got Red Sex Links. They are very good layers. I have crossed RIR male with Delaware female and the male chicks will look like the Delaware mother and the female chicks will look like the RIR father. The female chicks I hatched from the RIR/Del cross did not have any white like my other RIR/RIW crosses did.

 

[Pyxis]

Here's Lemon, my broody red sex link. I hope she decides to raise more again this year!

 

[Peep_Show]

My understanding is that a red roo (NH or RIR) crossed with a white hen WITH barring factor (BR, SLW) or with columbian coloring (such as light Sussex, Columbian Rock) will produce definite sex link chicks.

I had asked if those RSL's were Cinnamon Queens because they had the nice full bodies, white tail trim and fluffy butts.

 

[Peep_Show]

I guess I was trying to describe the silver factor in the hens for a sex-link cross....

 

[philipdj]

Here's Lemon, my broody red sex link. I hope she decides to raise more again this year!

wooww.. finally i see that RSL being a mother. there is special treatment in order to she want to broody..?

 

[Cynthia12]

Leghorn x RIR roo will not produce a sex link.
the pullets would still lay nice maybe cream eggs but will not be able to tell pullet from roo at hatch.

Check out this link, this is what you may end up with.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/430812/rir-roo-over-white-leghorn-hen

Oh boy! That would be so great to get the white with the spots. Hoping the rooster collar I got will work on my RIR cockerel out there. It isn't a shock collar, but will lesson the sound when they try to take that deep breath in to crow. I have wanted a rooster forever. Neighbors are too close.