Leghorn crossed with a Rhode island Red?

[WalkingOnSunshine]

You got your red and black recipes mixed up

I wonder if the tetra tints are different than other red sex links cause of dominant white in the leghorns vs silver in the rocks/wyandottes/etc?

Oops! That's what I get for typing from memory. Thanks for setting me straight.

 

[misfitchick09]

I actually hatched 4 of the tetra tints have two hens and two roos the roos got their wattles in quick

 

[blklangshandude]

I just hatched 4 chicks. The father was a Rhode Island Red. The mother was a White Leghorn. I got 2 chicks that are white and 2 chicks that are red. I guess all that means is that I will be able to tell what color they are.

I just use the most efficient form of sexing. When it crows then it is a rooster. When it lays an egg then it is a hen. The problem with that method is that it takes so long.

 

[dkkirby]

What is the breed called? Male leghorn & female RIR please

 

[Mohunranch]

For the past two years, I"ve received the left-over chicks from the incubators in the science lab at a nearby college. They were supposed to have been RIR, but the chicks were fluffy yellow without discernable sex-link differences. As they matured, the roos developed red patches and golden ruffs, or just black and red flecks. The pullets stayed all creamy white, not large nor beautiful, but good layers of large pinkish or buff colored eggs. From all my research, I'm guessing they are a white leghorn over RIR, or vice versa.

 

[Bullitt]

What is the breed called? Male leghorn & female RIR please

It's called half Leghorn and half Rhode Island Red. It is not a breed.

Hatcheries cross breeds and give them names so that people are more likely to buy them. Calling a cross Amberlink or Golden Comet doesn't make them a breed. The Labradoodle is not a breed of dog, either. It is marketing.

That being said, crossing a Leghorn and Rhode Island Red will produce hens that lay eggs very well.

 

[Bullitt]

For the past two years, I"ve received the left-over chicks from the incubators in the science lab at a nearby college. They were supposed to have been RIR, but the chicks were fluffy yellow without discernable sex-link differences. As they matured, the roos developed red patches and golden ruffs, or just black and red flecks. The pullets stayed all creamy white, not large nor beautiful, but good layers of large pinkish or buff colored eggs. From all my research, I'm guessing they are a white leghorn over RIR, or vice versa.

If the pullets are white, then it was a White Leghorn rooster over a Rhode Island Red hen. That is, if that was the breed cross. It would be difficult to tell.