What Makes a Sex Link Chick?

[Cowgirl71]

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I guess I'm just real turned off to breeder birds because my #1 goal is high egg production. I'm currently selling 20 dozen eggs a week, and easily have the demand for 35 dozen. I keep chickens as a hobby that also makes a little extra money on the side.

I've never heard of breeder birds that compared in egg production with hatchery birds of the same variety. But I do know that breeder birds are prettier and much closer to the SOP, and make better meat birds. But eggs are more important to me.

 

[deerman]

Cowgirl, I sold all my white rocks and NW, RIR flocks over two years ago...When I was takein chemo...I had 4 breeding pens one for each ,plus the one for NH and the white rock hens that produce the golden comet. each pen I had 30 hens each.

Never had RIW of the leghorns(to small for me)


Got my white rocks many years ago from Mt Healthy Hatchery Not sure if their white rock are still recessive..would think so..but not sure.

they also sell alot of sexlink chicks.


Only chicken I have now are a few buckeye bantam...and my game chickens

 

[Cowgirl71]

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Thank you!

What does NW stand for? I might just get some of their White Rocks. If they don't make the red-sex-links, big deal, they'll still be great layers.

I keep going back and forth with keeping white birds, as far as predator protection goes. I only have one white chicken, and she's still around a year later. But then folks in the area say to never keep white chickens...

I'm sorry to hear you had to go through chemo. My adopted Grandma has been going through chemo for the last three years, and it's nasty. How are you doing now?

 

[deerman]

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Thank you!

What does NW stand for? I might just get some of their White Rocks. If they don't make the red-sex-links, big deal, they'll still be great layers.

I keep going back and forth with keeping white birds, as far as predator protection goes. I only have one white chicken, and she's still around a year later. But then folks in the area say to never keep white chickens...

I'm sorry to hear you had to go through chemo. My adopted Grandma has been going through chemo for the last three years, and it's nasty. How are you doing now?

Sorry that was NH . if you want to raise sexlink, nonwhite, try the barred rock hens good layer(still rocks) cross with RIR or NW rooster black sexlink

 

[Cowgirl71]

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Yep, I'm definitely planning to do the Barred Rocks!

I have a special attachment to this breed because I have fond memories of when I was little on Grandma's farm. I have pictures of me messing around with the chickens when I was a wee little thing...

Who would of thought a few short years later I'd be living on a farm with 94 chickens?

I just looked into Mt. Healthy's White Rocks, and they look VERY interesting. They claim that their strain is one of the best layers of White Rocks in the country, that they're large birds, with the cockerels making wonderful broilers/roasters. Have you found this to be true? Also, did all of your WR hens make sex-links, or were there a few "defects" that didn't carry the right genes for making sex-links? Thank you!