What breed are my 11 week old chicks?

[ESofVA]

I ordered some layers also from a hatchery requesting ISA browns. ISA Browns are supposed to be a cross between "Rhode Island Red (female) and Rhode Island White (male)". Later (about 1 month later!) I managed to get them to tell me they were a cross between RIR and New Hampshires "but they are the same thing as". This cross is called a cherry egger, not an ISA Brown, However, mine are red. I was really P^%&&@#!!!

 

[Fred's Hens]

I ordered some layers also from a hatchery requesting ISA browns. ISA Browns are supposed to be a cross between "Rhode Island Red (female) and Rhode Island White (male)". Later (about 1 month later!) I managed to get them to tell me they were a cross between RIR and New Hampshires "but they are the same thing as". This cross is called a cherry egger, not an ISA Brown, However, mine are red. I was really P^%&&@#!!!

Actually, the ISA Brown isn't a simply cross as RIRxRIW. It is a hybrid developed in Europe and is a four way cross. It was one of the earliest super laying hybrids, now some 30 plus years ago. Yes, it is a red sex link and sexable at hatch. There are not a lot of hatcheries who have the parent stock and the license to produce them. Townline Hatchery in Zeeland, MI is one of the few.

 

[ESofVA]

I realize that they consist of several breeds mixed together and only some hat can produce them from parent stock. That was I kept insisting if the breed that I had received was truly Isa brown. I wanted Isa browns....and didn't get them as a result.