What on earth are these?? **pic heavy**

[Gindee77]

I was going to say they look just like my sex-link Golden Comets too...mine are just over 10 weeks old. Are you sure the roos are really roos? Mine are getting red/pink in their combs and their wattles are starting to show up more. I sure hope mine are pullets and true sex-links!!! I will croak if Lucy is really Lukey!!!

Yours may have a bit more white in them than mine.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

You can tell the males that they pictured by the saddle feathers and wing bow feathers that are shiny.

 

[coopist]

Yep, those are males.

Hmm, could be golden comets backcrossed to an RIR...

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I remembered where I saw something similar in color to them. I saw them in Grant Breretons ebook, he has something with the same pattern that he calls vanilla. He got vanilla by breeding pyle females with buff columbian males. It is doubtful that they are that cross. I agree with coopist, they are probably a sexlink back crossed to a RIR, maybe the breeder got some darker colored RSL's and got them mixed up, who knows.

 

[coopist]

Sounds plausible.

Btw, I edited my original post. I meant dominant white. That's what comes of age. I was sure that's what I was typing even as I typed recessive. Sorry.

 

[ticks]

They could be red sex-links

 

[Red]

Drat, i was hoping for a miracle with people saying "Oh no, they're not boys...it just so happens they're actually all girls!!"

I *thought* I'd read somewhere that RSL males were white / silver, which is just confusing! Thanks for everybody's input, sounds like they do have some RIR blood in them then.

It's been quite exciting trying to figure out what they are as they've grown, thankyou everyone

 

[duckman]

Does anyone think they could be ISA browns?

Duckman

 

[asher]

They are beautiful and do resemble my comets.

 

[debbyluvschickens]

I bought some red star pullets, and they are that exact color