RHODE ISLAND RED W/WHITE SPOTS

[PARKBOY]

I HAVE A PURE RHODE ISLAND RED HEN THAT HAS WHITE SPOTS ON HER AND WAS WONDERING IS THIS COMMON?

 

[BantyChickMom]

It is very common for RIR's to have white tipped feathers until the first molt, then there should be no white at all.

How old is she?

 

[PARKBOY]

She will be 2yrs old this spring. She didnt have the white until she moulted, and its not on her wing tips its white spots all over.

 

[BantyChickMom]

You're sure she's RIR?

 

[FutureChickenMan]

If it looks like this:

It's a speckled sussex not an rir.. Another possibility is that it is an off-spring of a red star/red sex link hybrid.

 

[tx_dane_mom]

Got a pic?

 

[PARKBOY]

No shes a RIR. I have both her parents. She didnt have the white until she moulted this fall. Here she is and here is her parents.

 

[lauralou]

How very interesting. I think she's beautiful.

 

[BamaChicken]

Somewhere there is another gene. She does not have the typiical body type from the picture of a RIR.

 

[speckledhen]

Cannot be pure RIR. That girl has Speckled Sussex in her somewhere, IMO. She is beautiful, though.