Red Star is "usually" a Rhode Island or New Hampshire Red blend over a white hen, usually a White Rock/Delaware or blend thereof.
These commercial layers are really great layers and they really are a hybrid, in that many Red types go into their Red lineage and lots of White go into their White lineage. The "jump" they get in being hybrids causes them to be great layers. A lot of research goes into their genetics.
Second generation chicks will be mutts, but mutts with some awesome genes. Frankly, they should lay very, very well, just a click below. However, in the future, new blood should probably be introduced, if they are to be used again for propagation. Likely the Roo used was a "brother" of the hen, in that they were quite likely from the same gene pool at the hatchery. If there is to be a next generation time, just keep that in mind. Please post some pics when they are feathered out at, say, 8 weeks. Love to see them. You'll not know the roos from the pullets, of course, as the sex linking by sight will be washed together.
These commercial layers are really great layers and they really are a hybrid, in that many Red types go into their Red lineage and lots of White go into their White lineage. The "jump" they get in being hybrids causes them to be great layers. A lot of research goes into their genetics.
Second generation chicks will be mutts, but mutts with some awesome genes. Frankly, they should lay very, very well, just a click below. However, in the future, new blood should probably be introduced, if they are to be used again for propagation. Likely the Roo used was a "brother" of the hen, in that they were quite likely from the same gene pool at the hatchery. If there is to be a next generation time, just keep that in mind. Please post some pics when they are feathered out at, say, 8 weeks. Love to see them. You'll not know the roos from the pullets, of course, as the sex linking by sight will be washed together.
