red star

[Goose and Fig]

To put it simply if you breed sex-link to sex-link you get a mix of chicks that are NOT sex-link. So you won't be able to sex them by color from birth.
Regardless of what they look like- you'd end up with some great laying hens.

 

[JessaLynn]

interesting topic...not to hijack the thread but what if the hen was redstar and the dad white cochin or white leghorn, what would the offspring look like?

 

[ole red]

i'm not as interested in the chicks being sex link, as i am in not haveing a bunch of white hens.

 

[Krys109uk]

Chris09 wrote:

Basically the Barring and the Silvering is masking/ covering up the black in a White Leghorn so you don't see it.. Krys is that right? If so would that make the White Leghorn a Sport?

Not really. This is the way I look at it. If I'm wrong maybe someone will correct me.

The white leghorn is a black based bird. But leghorns are to have yellow legs & extended black birds tend to have a black outer pigment. Barring inhibits black pigment from the legs allowing yellow to show. Silver males a whiter cleaner white. And after all that is in place dominant white (I) stops black pigment from being laid down in feathers.

Regarding 'sport'. It would depend upon how you are defining 'sport'. I'd probably define 'sport' as an offspring which is unexpectedly different, possibly as a result of a mutation.​

 

[Krys109uk]

ole red,
I don't know precisely what is in the red star hybrids. There ought to be a plenty of opportunity to select for red.

 

[Sillystunt]

Not sure if it will help but i love doing this~

http://www.breedbook.org/?action=geneticscalculator&tab=CHICKEN