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

[Chickenchick11]

WoW

x3the hen on the bottom has a great tail swoop and fan the one on top i had one look just like her years ago she lived to be 10I see you

rhode island reds tooo i just got 20two day old rhode island red chicks Thursday they are now 5days old and so far i only lost 1.so gar so good.lol

Thank you! Yes, I love my Rhode Island Reds. The one on the top is Jackie and the one below her is Pebbles.

Awesome! Good luck with your chicks!

 

[cmom]

Here are some pictures of my chicks from my RIR male bred with RIW females.

Thought I'd add another picture.

 

[cmom]

Quote: There is no such breed or even a hybrid called a Rhode Island Brown. A cross between a RIR or NHR male and a RIW female will make a Red Sex-Link. The crosses do not breed true so if you try to breed a Red Sex-Link, the chicks will come out all different colors both males and females. I have experimented in the past with several generations. The white or silver gene was the more dominant so with each generation I got more white chicks.


In this picture one of brown colored chicks is a female and the other a male.

 

[RIR-YELLOWLEGS]

Thank you! Yes, I love my Rhode Island Reds. The one on the top is Jackie and the one below her is Pebbles.

Awesome! Good luck with your chicks!

its been30years since i had any chickens still love it as much as i did when i got my first hen at the age of 5thank you for the good luck wishes.

 

[Jdc361]

Do your red sex links fly? If so how high? If I do a 4-5 foot fence, will they fly over?

 

[Hens rule]

My red sex-links don't fly to often but they do fly a little but they usually don't fly over 3-4 feet. I would say probably not.

 

[cmom]

Do your red sex links fly? If so how high? If I do a 4-5 foot fence, will they fly over?

All of my fences are 5' high. Once in a great while one has gone over. I had problems with hawks and owls so now I have netting over all of my pens.

 

[RIR-YELLOWLEGS]

Here are more pictures of my chicks. They are almost 2 weeks old. Amazed at how fast they grow...

i like your brood setup its neat food on one end water on the other end heat lamp in the middle so cute hehe my chicks are only 5days old but there RIR 19of them and i just

them.

 

[philipdj]

There is no such breed or even a hybrid called a Rhode Island Brown. A cross between a RIR or NHR male and a RIW female will make a Red Sex-Link. The crosses do not breed true so if you try to breed a Red Sex-Link, the chicks will come out all different colors both males and females. I have experimented in the past with several generations. The white or silver gene was the more dominant so with each generation I got more white chicks.


In this picture one of brown colored chicks is a female and the other a male.

How about the egg production after second generation..?

 

[chicchic25]

There is no such breed or even a hybrid called a Rhode Island Brown. A cross between a RIR or NHR male and a RIW female will make a Red Sex-Link. The crosses do not breed true so if you try to breed a Red Sex-Link, the chicks will come out all different colors both males and females. I have experimented in the past with several generations. The white or silver gene was the more dominant so with each generation I got more white chicks.


In this picture one of brown colored chicks is a female and the other a male.

Thank you cmom! I really appreciate all of the input. This is great information. I've really never considered breeding chickens but then .... I never thought I'd own any either. LOL We were actually looking at more chicks at a feed store over the weekend. We decided we better wait and maybe add to our flock next spring. Maybe by then we'll have a better idea of what we are doing.