can any "production red" experts tell me if this is a little roo?

[JodyJo]

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I agree, NOT sex links...

Here are 2 of my RSL hens...

and one of my Production red hen..

they looked nothing alike as chicks...

 

[Pele]

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I agree, NOT sex links...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/68634_dsc_0244.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/68634_dsc_0230.jpg
Here are 2 of my RSL hens...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/68634_dsc_0237.jpg
and one of my Production red hen..

they looked nothing alike as chicks...

Nice pics JodyJo! I love your first hen's fluffy butt pic. And thanks for pointing out that they don't look anything alike as chicks, I completely forgot to mention this myself when I posted my opinion earlier.

Female Sex-Link chicks are caramel colored with racing stripes on the back, where the males are a very light yellow (some hatcheries produce males with racing stripes too, but they are rare and you can still rely on the really light coloration).

Production reds feather out a 'wild' coloration at first, but it soon turns into plain old red.

Here is a set of picks that may help clarify things to those unfamiliar with these breeds:

Red SLs: females on right, males on left
http://www.cacklehatchery.com/afi300.JPG

Production Reds: You can see the dark patches on the primaries. No racing stripes on the back
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1rF8mVSsL...AAD0/wFYAkok3eA8/s1600/ProductionRedPeeps.jpg

PS none of the pics are mine, if you own the pics and want me to take them down, PM me.

 

[stormylady]

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I agree with Chris09 also.

 

[JodyJo]

Here is a picture of my Production Red...she was very young, only about 3 weeks (we got her from a neighbor) & I didn't know what she was...she was very, well...ugly actually, sparse feathers, dull colors...

Here she is again at about 5 weeks:

And here again WITH a RSL:

You can see the differences quite well.

 

[Emptywagon2]

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You will get several colors from that cross. Its getting late for me so my mind is shutting down a bit, but ill try to give you some rough estimate and I'm goin to assume the RSL hen you are using is red with a white tail but if not, let me know and ill adjust it.

A BSL rooster is only going to have one copy of barring so when bred to a non barred hen, half of his offspring will be barred and half will be non barred.

A RSL hen (if white tailed) will only have one copy of dominant white, so when bred to a non dom white rooster, half of her offspring will get dom white and half won't.

So you have to combine those to aspects together to figure the colors

Also, if breeding a barred roo, especially if he was bred from a red father, if breeding him back on red hens, the red is going to start dominating the extended black.

So with all that in account, the possible colors you could get will be

Barred (ranging from black barred to red barred)
Black (ranging to almost solid red, like the above color without the barring)
White ( ranging to almost white tailed red like the RSL hen, same as the color above with white replacing the black)
Red barred with all black replaced by white.
White with faint ghost barring. ( I have pics of this that ill post in a minute).

ETA. Here is a Ghost Barred cockerel that I bred a while back from a BSL roo on hatchery "RIWhite" hens. Its a result of one copy of barring and one copy of dominant white. Also, this cockerel should most likely be pure silver based since he has no gold leakage which would have been possible from his fathers side, however since you will be breeding to red hens, I would suspect yours to have some gold tinting and probably autosomal red showing in the shoulder region similar to a RSL rooster.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/37373_w_bar_roo_2.jpg

Close up of the faint barring
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/37373_w_bar_roo.jpg

Thanks for the info... I set the eggs at noon today. I can't wait to see all the colors I get!

 

[RAREROO]

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You will get several colors from that cross. Its getting late for me so my mind is shutting down a bit, but ill try to give you some rough estimate and I'm goin to assume the RSL hen you are using is red with a white tail but if not, let me know and ill adjust it.

A BSL rooster is only going to have one copy of barring so when bred to a non barred hen, half of his offspring will be barred and half will be non barred.

A RSL hen (if white tailed) will only have one copy of dominant white, so when bred to a non dom white rooster, half of her offspring will get dom white and half won't.

So you have to combine those to aspects together to figure the colors

Also, if breeding a barred roo, especially if he was bred from a red father, if breeding him back on red hens, the red is going to start dominating the extended black.

So with all that in account, the possible colors you could get will be

Barred (ranging from black barred to red barred)
Black (ranging to almost solid red, like the above color without the barring)
White ( ranging to almost white tailed red like the RSL hen, same as the color above with white replacing the black)
Red barred with all black replaced by white.
White with faint ghost barring. ( I have pics of this that ill post in a minute).

ETA. Here is a Ghost Barred cockerel that I bred a while back from a BSL roo on hatchery "RIWhite" hens. Its a result of one copy of barring and one copy of dominant white. Also, this cockerel should most likely be pure silver based since he has no gold leakage which would have been possible from his fathers side, however since you will be breeding to red hens, I would suspect yours to have some gold tinting and probably autosomal red showing in the shoulder region similar to a RSL rooster.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/37373_w_bar_roo_2.jpg

Close up of the faint barring
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/37373_w_bar_roo.jpg

Thanks for the info... I set the eggs at noon today. I can't wait to see all the colors I get!

Good luck with them, id like to see what all you get too.

 

[Emptywagon2]

Thanks! This is my 1st hatch so I'm very excited.. I set 44 eggs so I hope to get some chicks out of this hatch! I will post pics when they hatch.