Stars or whyandotte?

[Timmy]

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red stars and black stars are both sex link production egg layers, pullets are young females and strait run is what the hatcheries call a shipment of unsexed chicks.

 

[jpruett86]

But do red stars and black stars have the same temperament, ect? Are they just color variations or actually different.

Thanks again for all the info from everyone

 

[Timmy]

there temperaments are similar but they are not the same bird they are different hybrids that produce a similar bird for the purpose of egg production here's a link that might help http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Sex-links/BRKSexLink.html

 

[colby318]

Production wyandottes usually give around 180 a year. The sex links are bred to be efficient layers. Hybrid crossings are industry secrets but reds are usually a Rhode Island Red x white Leghorn and the blacks are maybe australorp x leghorn.

 

[Arielle]

My understanding is the black sexlinks are rhode island red on barred rocks ; and red sl are rir on white rir. No leghorn as far as I have researched the sexlinks. Feathersite has a great deal of detail on this.

Sex links are easier to pick by color, but even then sometimes mother nature goofs ( I have sucha goof) and humans can make mistakes on vent sexing but no such mistakes were made on my pullet order from MM this year.

Check for wing feather development; the girls grow wing feathers faster than the boys of the same breed usually. GL