TSC Chick-sex link?

[cstronks]

The cinnamon queen is the best of the hybrids in my opinion. Red Sex links are similar. Excellent layers, and CQ has the personality to boot

 

[jc12551]

I would quibble that Production Reds are not true breeding...since they aren't a true breed, you can't breed a Production Red and get a bird with all the same characteristics as the parents. What you get is an assortment of red birds from an assortment of red birds.

Lady of McCamley

That was what I was trying to say, you just said it better.

 

[jc12551]

The cinnamon queen is the best of the hybrids in my opinion. Red Sex links are similar. Excellent layers, and CQ has the personality to boot

I love mine. They are almost identical in appearance but I have some crazy personalities. I have one that hops in the brooder to gobble down chick starter the moment I open it. Another that stands inside the fence and taunts my Anatolian Shep. while another runs up behind the dog and steals food. The do very well as free rangers sometimes going too far into the woods (I get exercise trying to hunt them down).

 

[KieksterChicken]

So.. not meaning to hijack this thread or anything, but since we are on the subject of "red" chickens..what do you think the red and white hen in my avatar pic is? I pinned her down as a Red Star but your opinions would be appreciated. And the other darker red/brown one in the pic I had pinned down as a New Hampshire. Any ideas?

 

[Lady of McCamley]

So.. not meaning to hijack this thread or anything, but since we are on the subject of "red" chickens..what do you think the red and white hen in my avatar pic is? I pinned her down as a Red Star but your opinions would be appreciated. And the other darker red/brown one in the pic I had pinned down as a New Hampshire. Any ideas?

Red with white tail markings, Red Star/Gold Star...any of those names, whatever "flavor of the month" the hatchery was calling it.

The other one...Production Red.

Lady of McCamley

 

[KieksterChicken]

Ty Lady McCamley. The darker one has a black tipped tail though, lighter solid red body and darker red neck with yellowish legs which is why I leaned New Hampshire. She lays a light brown egg. The picture doesn't show it too well because she was just getting her adult plumage and most of her black tail feathers had fallen out when I took the picture (they have since grown back in black). Still a Production Red? I bought those 2 at the feedstore with the imput of a sales clerk who got every breed of chick she sold me wrong. They had taken all the chicks from about 8 different breed/sex orders from Ideal, pullet and roos and put them all in one bin labelled pullets and thought they could rely on their clerks expertise to tell customers what they were. (turned out I had 2 Creviceour roos which I was told were 2 Jersey Giant pullets, 2 Dark Cornish 1 a roo and 1 a pullet which I had been told were Ameraucana pullets and then the 2 I asked about which turned out to be 1 Red Star and then what I thought was a New Hampshire)Lol!

 

[Lady of McCamley]

Hatchery quality New Hampshires tend to be more Production Red than New Hampshire breed standards, but with the addition of black in her tail, then she would be hatchery quality New Hampshire....I did base my production red on the fact she did not have enough black in her tail. She should also have some black ticking in her neck to be a true New Hampshire.

Lady of McCamley

 

[KieksterChicken]

Ty Lady of McCamly. By the way, I love your name. : )

 

[BLT79]

We just got 3 "red sex link" and 3 "black sex link" from TSC. I hope mine are red sex link, as I just read a thread on production reds, saying they were mean and not the friendliest of hybrids!