What is a sapphire gem?

[EColson15]

Alright my chicken peeps, hubby and I went to Rural King today mostly because I just wanted to. Anyway, they have baby chicks out year round now, and I can’t resist. Had to look. So they had a bin of “sapphire gem” and they are blue. We have looked and looked online and can’t find anything. What the heck is a sapphire gem chicken? Or do we just have some random blue chickens?

 

[R2elk]

Alright my chicken peeps, hubby and I went to Rural King today mostly because I just wanted to. Anyway, they have baby chicks out year round now, and I can’t resist. Had to look. So they had a bin of “sapphire gem” and they are blue. We have looked and looked online and can’t find anything. What the heck is a sapphire gem chicken? Or do we just have some random blue chickens?

Apparently they are sex links that when mature lay a brown egg.

https://hoovershatchery.com/sapphiregem.html

 

[sourland]

A Google search indicates that it is a blue sex link chicken that was developed in the Czech Republic.

 

[Amer]

A Google search indicates that it is a blue sex link chicken that was developed in the Czech Republic.

X2

 

[Cluckingham palace capers]

Sooo cute! Love the shape

 

[drumstick diva]

Love blue chickens. x 3 Sourland

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Look at Hoovers Hatchery.

 

[debid]

Black sexlink but now in blue? I wish they had a picture of the males.

 

[sourland]

Black sexlink but now in blue? I wish they had a picture of the males.

Went back to Google, and one of the hatcheries had a very small picture of a rooster. I could not get it to enlarge, but it appeared to be a lighter blue with perhaps bronze leakage in the hackles, saddle, and wing coverlets.

 

[debid]

Went back to Google, and one of the hatcheries had a very small picture of a rooster. I could not get it to enlarge, but it appeared to be a lighter blue with perhaps bronze leakage in the hackles, saddle, and wing coverlets.

I was assuming they used barring but maybe not. Wonder if it's wing sexable instead of by color?