Rhode Island Red Rooster White Leghorn Chicken cross

[Ericatalley80]

A RIR rooster and a White Leghorn hen will produce a Golden Comet and they are prolific egg layers. I have 6 of them and love them. They are small, lay medium eggs on average and lay on average 320 eggs a year or more!

 

[Aapomp831]

A RIR rooster and a White Leghorn hen will produce a Golden Comet and they are prolific egg layers. I have 6 of them and love them. They are small, lay medium eggs on average and lay on average 320 eggs a year or more!

They will actually be considered a red star. A golden comet is when you cross a New Hampshire rooster with a White Rock hen. What you have are standard red sex links. I breed the same ones.

 

[JedJackson]

To get sex links from this cross it has to be a Rhode Island red rooster over a white leghorn that has genes for silver, and not all white leghorns have genes for silver. So you might get sex links with that cross and you might not. But you will definitely get excellent layers from that cross.

 

[Pinkpalacecoop]

I have a white leghorn over RIR pullet I bred. She should start laying soon. She is white with a cool red pattern all over that looks cool. Feathering out was cool because her pattern changed daily. The roo I have started out red and feathered out with white tops. Unfortunately I sold their siblings so I have no idea if the rest look that way. Not sure what her eggs will look like though. I'm too lazy to walk to the rooster pen and get a pic but if anyone is interested I can get one before he goes to freezer camp (roos are hard enough to sell but no one wants leghorns really anyway). I have a pic of my girl if I can figure out how to post it.https://m.facebook.com/lisa.wilkins...tn__=EH-R&cached_data=false&ftid=&mdp=1&mdf=1

 

[Chickenheadmate]

They'll be great layers.Maybe not quite as stellar as the Leghorn mommas, but they should outlay a regular Red. color wise, they'll probably be white with red or black flecks. Leghorns tend to carry dominant white so you get some real wild cards when crossing them with colored birds. Egg color will be cream/light brown, and size should be pretty large.

I know it’s an old post, but why black flecks?
(Keep answer as simple as possible, if possible. Lol)

 

[Goatchicks]

I did some research and they are considered sex-links and other names like that. I know it's not necessarily a breed but thank you. I just need good layers

They are sex links and, actually are considered Golden Comets. They are less common Golden Comets crossing with leghorn hens rather than Rhode Island Whites, but Golden Comets still the same.

 

[Goatchicks]

I recently bought some chicks which are RIR over white leghorn, any ideas with sexing? They seem to have large combs but they have feathered out much quicker than I expected. They are 17 days old.

They are sex link chickens. RIR rooster cross with White Leghorn hen gives you Golden Comets. I've been using these 2 breeds to hatch baby chicks.

 

[Borgy]

Novogen browns are a RIR / white leghorn cross that is used as commercial brown layer from what I can tell.

Same as USA brown?