White feathered "red sex-linked hens"!!!!

[Brunty_Farms]

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Central. 1st time was an all male sex-link order. (found 2 white females out of 27) 2nd time was a "canceled" strait run order. Needless to say I did not have to pay for the second order.

You know what... I talked to them about that. They got their breeders from a guy out on the east coast, I think MA...

They said they get all kinds of colors from their sex-links so somewhere down the line the breeders got mixed up somehow. I was told that they have to vent sex their sex link chicks.... which normaly isn't a thing that you do... that is why they are sex-linked....

Here is a pic from their site that shows their sex link chicks... traditionaly they would be red and white. As you can see they are an array of colors.

 

[jenjscott]

looks like I would be getting new breeders.

 

[wisdom_seeker]

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The black ones are black sex links. The white spot on the head = male all black = female. I only got two of them and they seemed to be true sex-links. At least that one male was not in question.

Thanks for calling the hatchery. I have not had the time to do so myself.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

I called them a few months ago... probably back in spring. I had asked about them as I thought their price on broilers was pretty good.

It's funny as they don't even sell black sex-link chicks... I don't even think they have the breeders for them.

 

[patandchickens]

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That is just bizarre. They have no business selling them as sexlinks then. Sheesh!

<shaking head in amazement at this world we live in>,

Pat

 

[wisdom_seeker]

I am getting eggs now from what was supposed to be male chickens!

 

[kingmt]

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I had a rooster in the fall of the year the night/early morning before I butchered him laid a egg. I never got another one & it died before the next spring but it got out of butchering day.

 

[doubled]

my sex link "hens" are all crowing