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Rose comb is due to the wyandotte involved in the cross.What about her rose comb?
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Rose comb is due to the wyandotte involved in the cross.What about her rose comb?
The red hen is sex link cross of RIR roo over Silver laced wyandotte hen. Not a common sex link mix but TSC ocasionally has them. I forget the exact name, but it might be something like Brown star or Brown sex link.
The white hens are not Cali whites or Austra whites. Both are dominant white over black, and always produce white birds with black specks. No red anywhere in the genetics. They could be Amberlinks or some new hybrid mix.
I agree that the first hen is a red sex link. Also known as bovan browns or isa browns. This is a thread that mentions RSL crosses involving wyandottes: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/cinnamon-queen-thread.938674/#post-14380819.
The other two both have red leakage, so they aren’t austra whites. I’ve seen a few similar hens on here, but I couldn’t find the breed. They’re very likely leghorn hybrids.
The comb is right. The hen is just a different kind of red sex link.And as I mentioned the tractor supply chickens are like that. Meaning the comb is not right by your standards but fine by theirs
The white are one hundred percent Austra White.The top hen, the red one, is NOT an ISA Brown.
She has a rose comb.
Some hybrid - a Dixie Rainbow?
The bottoms are Whites of some sort, like an California White (more likely then an Austra - where would they get the ginger?
I assumed it was dirt.I’ve just never seen an Austra White with that reddish color.
They are a cross between a pure black bird and a pure white bird. Where would they get the red?
It could be.It isn’t, I don’t think.
The first pic with the white birds (when they are much younger) has it, and so does the second.
Cali Whites and Austra Whites are very, very similar looking, but are different crosses.
We've already figured out they aren't Austra whitesDixie Rainbows, austra white and amberlink.
oh, I just saw OP said it had brown in the name and was from tractor supply and couldn't think of any others that would fit that. So what are they? Production red doesn't have brown in the nameI have raised ISA Browns in the past and those don't look like the ones I had. They do appear to be crosses. Some hatcheries do do some cross breeding and come up with their own special crosses. Maybe a production Red.
These are ISA Browns from a project I was working on years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISA_Brown
https://cs-tf.com/isa-brown/
oh, I just saw OP said it had brown in the name and was from tractor supply and couldn't think of any others that would fit that. So what are they? Production red doesn't have brown in the name