Um....what?! (but cute!)

[macmama]

I just hatched 3 sex-link eggs with my broody. 2 were CQs and one was a BSL. She had JUST moved her breeding pens around 2 weeks before so she warned me I might get a surprise, and I did. All 3 chicks are identical! I was expecting a plain reddish or yellowish chick for the CQs, and a black or black-with-dot chick for the BSL.
They all have reddish tones-- did I really get 3 girls? I think she makes her CQs by SLW hens and RIR roos if that helps...
They all hatched like this:

 

[Mandalina]

I have no idea but I just mixed my white silkie to my RIR roo and got a baby that looks like that with a silkie face.i am loving the chipmunkiness.

 

[MattalynsBarn]

The first one looks like my Sussex chicks, even with that white, red, white, beak. But the second picture looks like the backs of my EE chicks

 

[Goose and Fig]

That is a surprise. They do look just like sussex chicks. I'd think they will grow up to be a patterned bird

 

[macmama]

I love the chipmunkiness too. That would be fun if they were patterned! I don't have one of those. Backyard-chickening is so limiting... I really NEED more than the ten birds I'm allowed to have.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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I can have up to 100 birds in my zoning, but I'm limited by how fast I can build coops and pay for feed.

The chicks do look like Speckled sussex. What a beautiful surprise.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Sexlinks do not breed true in the second generation. No way to tell the gender at this point.

 

[Panhanle RIR]

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my CQ's of that cross have been very unreliable a white one was a hen

 

[macmama]

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These are 1st generation-- parents were pure. And I was wrong-- Mom was a Delaware, not a SLW. Apparently the breeder said all of the Delaware/(RIR-- I think) crosses came out chipmunked, the boys' base color is whitish yellow, girls' is reddish yellow. So I think I got 3 girls!