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

[nab58]

here are a few of mine..they're 10 weeks old.

 

[HughesFowlFarm]

I'm thinking of getting red sex links

So, if you get the easy to sex (red chick means hen & yellow or white means rooster) when a Rhode Island Red rooster and a Delaware hen mate. Will you still get the easy to sex chicks when the grown red sex link rooster and hen mate?

 

[cmom]

I'm thinking of getting red sex links

So, if you get the easy to sex (red chick means hen & yellow or white means rooster) when a Rhode Island Red rooster and a Delaware hen mate. Will you still get the easy to sex chicks when the grown red sex link rooster and hen mate?

If you mate a RIR male to a Del female, the females will look like the RIR and the males will look like the Del. I have done this. If you mate a RIR male to a RIW female you get RSL.

Here are some pics.


This is a cross of a RIR male and RIW females. The white chick is the male and the brown one is the female.


Off springs of RIR male and RIW females. I kept 2 males for experimental breeding.




These are females from my RIR male and Del females.




2nd generation breeding of sex links do not breed true. The following pics have some RIR,
RIW, RSL and some 2nd generation RSL. Some of the 2nd generation RSL chicks hatched out black.






The two brown chicks are 2nd generation RSL males. White is ths dominant gene.

Sex-Links
Text by "an anonymous friend"
Sex-Links are chickens which can be sexed at hatching, usually by color but sometimes by feather development. They are planned crosses, which are hardier and more productive than their parents' respective breeds. (Ed. note: Be aware that these are breed hybrids and will not breed true.)
(Ed. note: If you came to this page by some name that is not mentioned herein, it's because I can't keep up with all the commercial names that sex-linked chickens are marketed under, but I try to link the names to this page when I come across them. It should also be noted that the California White is a white egg laying Sex-link.)
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. 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.​

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

 

[redrstr29]

I want to buy a 30 acre farm and do all these crosses!!! anyone else want in lol lol??

 

[DixieChicken78]

I want to buy a 30 acre farm and do all these crosses!!! anyone else want in lol lol??

Sounds like it'd be fun to do it just to see what cool colors you'd get! Haha

 

[redrstr29]

exactly!! those delaware over production reds look nice also I like the dark color!! Im also drooling about getting some Heritage Rhode Island Reds, okay so I guess we have to start a chicken commune lol

 

[mwdudley]

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A pic of Jenny and captai. Jack and bubba Jenny is a production red and the Roos are RIRS

 

[mpgo4th]

Here are mine at 10 weeks with their body guard

 

[axelsangel]

I bought this little feather butt at a feed store that ordered them from Mt. Healthy Hatchery. It was labled as a Red Cross. I looked on MHH website and it said that the Red Cross (RSL) are RIR x Columbian. It looks so much like a cockerel and I'm just wondering if this is really a RSL or if they mixed it in on accident.

As a chick: The one in the middle with white wings



bottom right corner


Now at 5 weeks

 

[cmom]

I bought this little feather butt at a feed store that ordered them from Mt. Healthy Hatchery. It was labled as a Red Cross. I looked on MHH website and it said that the Red Cross (RSL) are RIR x Columbian. It looks so much like a cockerel and I'm just wondering if this is really a RSL or if they mixed it in on accident.

As a chick: The one in the middle with white wings



bottom right corner


Now at 5 weeks

Male.