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Blimey what a fantastic site! Thank you for all the replys. I think I will go for the 3 week withholding of eggs then hopefully will have pure bred Araucana eggs!!! Again thanks everyone....
 
hi but my current red star was hatched from a red star hen egg and the rooster we have is a Mutt and her mother raised her with other chicks normaly and she was known as a female red star because of her yellowish color and orange bars and she really is... but all of the other chicks that hatched from the red stars eggs were all mutts... so what i want to say is that there is a chance that we obtain a red star but still have some genes from the rooster....
 
Majd said:
hi but my current red star was hatched from a red star hen egg and the rooster we have is a Mutt and her mother raised her with other chicks normaly and she was known as a female red star because of her yellowish color and orange bars and she really is... but all of the other chicks that hatched from the red stars eggs were all mutts... so what i want to say is that there is a chance that we obtain a red star but still have some genes from the rooster....
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Your hen is not a true red star either, so what you will be doing is breeding a hen that is a mutt but just looks like a red star to a rooster that is a mutt. Really you won't get a true red star, especially since neither of the ones you are breeding are real red stars. There's no telling what the chicks will be. All I can tell you is that they will be mixed, they're not gonna be sex linked, and they're probably not gonna look like red stars either. You also won't be able to say for sure that the egg production from any hens that are produced will be as good as a red star's egg production. To get a real 'red star', which is just a fancy name hatcheries use for their red sex linked chickens, you have to do what I said earlier. Red stars, not being a true breed, cannot be produced from other red stars. Sorry :(

What I'm really trying to tell you here is that the chick you get will have a mix of qualities from the breeds that produced their red star mother and the breeds that produced your rooster. That's all you can ever really say when breeding mixed breed chickens anyway :p
 
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