WHAT is going on with gold sex-links?!?! I have a ROO, too!

[Sonoran Silkies]

If the sex-link is crossed incorrectly it doesn't work. You will end up with the same colours, but some of each colour will be male and some female. That is one possibility.

The other is that the farm store had the chicks marked incorrectly or that a bird from one brooder got moved to another.

 

[Shesapip]

Man, I love the quality of discussion on this forum!

Thanks for your input, pictures are coming!

 

[Shesapip]

Four of the five are identical in color and comb. The fifth is darker and has the bright red comb and wattles.

I put in the last picture to show hackle feathers of the ?roo and one of the hens. Someone here at BYC (sorry I can't give credit) told me that hackle feathers are developed enough at 8 weeks, which I'm told these birds are (or actually 9 by now), to show if it's a roo or a hen. Roos, I was told, have spiky, longish hackle feathers and hens have shorter, rounded ones.

Feedback?

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

Sorry dear...those aren't sex-links.

Those are Buff Orpingtons. The one that you are thinking is a male, is indeed a male Buff Orpington.

 

[Shesapip]

 

[WingingIt]

Yep, that's a rooster for sure.

 

[Shesapip]

Is it a Buff Orpington for sure?

 

[sheeshshe]

when I saw the picture I immediately thought Buff Orpington!!!!!

Im no expert though, but I have both red sex-links and buff orpingtons and those look nothing like my sex links.. but they do look like my BO's!!

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Me, too

 

[cparian]

Yep, All are Buff Orphingtons & yep thats a Rooster