What do you get when you cross breed Rhode Island red and golden comet?

[StephensonC]

Wast it Rhode Island Red roo over gold sex link hen or other way around?

RIR roo over RSL hens.

 

[enola]

You will get lots of red chicks, not sex linked, that will lay lots of large brown eggs.

 

[Meadowbee75]

Hi. I'm semi new here. I've been a new chicken owner since April. We have 3 golden comets (2 hens and a rooster) and 13 Rhode Island Red hens.

I'm resurrecting this older post because, as I mentioned above, our rooster is a golden comet. We have let one of our hens hatch out a couple eggs (only one hatched) and I'm curious if the breed of rooster makes a difference in the inherited genetics.

In this original post, OP had a RiR rooster and a golden comet hen. I have the opposite. Will that make any difference in what features/genetics get passed on? Will it still be sexlinked by color?

 

[enola]

Chicks will not be sex linked. You should get chickes with a base color of red. The pullets should be good layers of brown eggs.

 

[twisted-acres-farm]

Chicks will not be sex linked. You should get chickes with a base color of red. The pullets should be good layers of brown eggs.

X2

 

[Meadowbee75]

Thank you!

This is what the chick looks looks like. It's day old now:





I had another egg under her but it hasn't hatched. I don't think its going to. Saturday was Day 21.

 

[crawly01]

I hatched some, some years back and got hens that were nearly identical to a rir minus the black trim feathers on the tail.

 

[crawly01]

And while the chicks aren't color sexed you can feather sex them via the wing feathers if you do it within the first couple of days from hatch.

 

[Meadowbee75]

Guess I will do a follow up... here is the same chick I posted pictures of in November.



The mother is a Rhode Island Red, father a golden comet. I was there, physically present the exact moment the egg was laid, I marked it with the date and name of the hen.

I know for 100% the hen was a RiR, but this chick looks totally like a golden comet in coloring.

I wish I'd let the hen lay on a few more, so I could compare siblings.

 

[enola]

What color is your golden comet rooster? Do you have a picture?