Which breed is it?

Thanx for the advice.Can someone help with an image of an Amberlink rooster.Worried on how to identify roosters in my flock
 
in amber links, as with all red sex links, the females are red/tan with white wing and tail feathers, and the males are white with red on them.
If the guy sold you amber links, this is a cockerel.
those red shoulder bars are very suspiciously male. I think this is a late cockerel.
 
I think Amberlinks are an exception to this, they are bread so that you can tell by day old chicks wings and not color.
in amber links, as with all red sex links, the females are red/tan with white wing and tail feathers, and the males are white with red on them.
If the guy sold you amber links, this is a cockerel.
those red shoulder bars are very suspiciously male. I think this is a late cockerel.
 
I think Amberlinks are an exception to this, they are bread so that you can tell by day old chicks wings and not color.

That's the way it is with all sex links. From hatch you can tell if their male or female based upon the color of their down. In RSL, the males are yellow chicks who grow up white and the females are light reddish-orangy chicks who grow up red. In BSL, they are both hatched black, but the males have a white spot on the back of their head, indicating their barring gene. The males grow up barred and the females grow up black, generally with a gold head.
 
I see in the thread posted by @KikiLeigh02 that Amberlinks are sexed through wing feathering, where females grow their wing feathers in significantly earlier than boys and are not a colour-sexed cross, like a RSL.

Some points to note would be; are the hackles (feathers in the neck) rounded or pointed? Boys will have pointy feathers there. Is the comb and wattles large and red? Is there red across the back and shoulders?

I still argue that you have a pullet; I would expect more red, and for that red in the wing to be across the shoulders and back, rather than lower in the flight feathers.
 

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