What exactly are Sex-Link chickens?

It just means you can tell the sex by the feather colors at hatch.
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You can't breed sex link to sex link and end up with a true sex link chick. You end up with something new, just a mutt chicken.
 
I'm not aware of any "true-breeding" sex links, except having read an article in Practical Poultry about some having been developed last century. But as far as I'm aware, it was just done at a university and the birds aren't around anymore.

By the way, never google "Black Sex Link" without your search safe feature turned on.
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Ha ha, greyfields! I wanted to figure out how to tell the sex of a baby chick a few weeks ago.
I thought there was some way to "show" which sex it was.
So I innocently googled "chick sex show"! Ha ha ha!
Quite a shocker.
 
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Breeds or lines "pure breeding" for chicks sexable at hatch often are called autosexing. Breeds ending in 'bar' are autosexing, such as Legbar, Welbar, Rhodbar etc. The auto sexing in chickens is simply a combination of several genetic traits that make for very pale roosters and darker hens.
 

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