Question regarding Red-Sexlinks

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I am crossing a RIR roo with a Delaware hen... but it has come to my attention that the RIR Roo may not be pure. He looks like it, but then hmmmm... he has white on his earlobes.
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Will the fact that he's not 100% RIR affect the sexing of his chicks?
 
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That's what I was hoping... I waited all this time raising up the birds, hatched my first 3 chicks, and what are the odds all three would be girls? They are all red. So I'm waiting for the next hatch to see if we get any white males.
I was doing the surfing on the red sex links, and only in the description of Red Stars did I see the mention of "purebred" RIR roo... none of the others mention it at all. So I was worried for a bit. One more week and we'll have 10 more hatching.
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thank you~
 
Are you sure he is a R.I. Red and not a production red?
Some lines of production reds have Leghorn blood in them..

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I'm pretty sure he's a RIR. Though most of the birds up here are probably mixes of something or another if bred here in the state. LOL! I purchased him from someone at our local fair, and he was sold as a RIR. I didn't notice the earlobes until after my first round of chicks was born. I'm probably going to order a pure RIR just to cover my bases next year.
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Do you have a picture of him. I would have actually though that hatcheries would be using production reds instead of the real RIRs in their sexlinks anyway. I will be using a Buff Orp roo with RIW hens to get golden sexlinks this sping. With using RIW hens I should get gold hens with white tails, with you using delawares, you should get red hens with black tails, like RIRs.
 
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Gold sex-links sound lovely.
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I guess it doesn't really matter what he is, as long as the babies can be sexed at birth.
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I'll go grab a photo... brb.
 
OK... here he is. He's still a cockerel, but now comparing him to photos found on the web, he's pretty scrawny for a pure RIR.
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Here's a head-shot. (He had a bit of frostbite back in November, so his points are nubby
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What do you think? Do you think it was just dumb luck that I got all girls from the first hatch?
Here's one of the chicks.
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Thanks for the input. I'll know on Monday if this is truly working or not.
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Yep, definitly not a pure RIR, I would say he's a RIR X Brown Leghorn, which should still work I guess for sexlinks and if so, he may be even better than a pure RIR as far as his daughters being good layers. Just keep hatching and see if you get any white roos.
 

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