Red Stars??

[the 412 chicks]

i realy need to know if the leghron roo with a rir hen will make a red star

 

[Year of the Rooster]

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I don't believe so as Leghorns carry dominant white. When you breed any color with dominant white, the F1 generation will be all white with some color bleeding through.

 

[Krys109uk]

i realy need to know if the leghron roo with a rir hen will make a red star

If red stars are red then, no, not on a first cross. The sex links from leghorn males on RIR females give sex links for rate of feather growth.

http://animalsciences.missouri.edu/reprod/ReproTech/Feathersex/sld001.htm​

 

[the 412 chicks]

Sooo what is the most common way to breed a red star

 

[froggie71]

From what I understand you cross a White Leghorn roo with either a RIR hen or new hampshire red. The males should be white, females red. You can not breed a red star roo with a red star hen to get sex-linked chicks though.

 

[the 412 chicks]

thank you

 

[Year of the Rooster]

If you are still not sure, try doing a test hatch with this breeding combination to make sure it works, rather than sell chicks that are not sex-linked, if you know what I mean.

 

[Krys109uk]

From what I understand you cross a White Leghorn roo with either a RIR hen or new hampshire red. The males should be white, females red.

Won't work.....From that cross all of the offspring will be white, probably with red leakage especially in males.
That cross only works for rate of feather growth sexing.​

 

[the 412 chicks]

so is there any combination for white leghorns and RIR cause i have 1 male RIR and white leghorn along with plenty of both breeds. is there any way to get a red star out them two breeds

 

[froggie71]

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Won't work.....From that cross all of the offspring will be white, probably with red leakage especially in males.
That cross only works for rate of feather growth sexing.

I could very well be wrong. Have never tried it myself, but when I was doing research on it, I found this site.

www.ehow.com/how_5268673_breed-star-black-star-chickens.html