What do you get if you cross:

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

A RIR hen with a white legorn roo? I hatched two chicks recently from eggs that were marked RIR and both babies came out snow white. One has some black speckles, the other is solid white. All others from the same group of eggs came out red like they should....after the hatch, I saw an ad on a local website where the lady I bought the eggs from is trying to sell a white leghorn roo...do you think he could have jumped her fence and she didn't know? This lady is a wonderful and honest woman, and I know she didn't sell me mixes on purpose... Here's another question: if the dad was a white leghorn, mom a RIR, could I determine sex of babies by color?

 

[phasianidae]

BigDaddy'sGurl :

A RIR hen with a white legorn roo? I hatched two chicks recently from eggs that were marked RIR and both babies came out snow white. One has some black speckles, the other is solid white. All others from the same group of eggs came out red like they should....after the hatch, I saw an ad on a local website where the lady I bought the eggs from is trying to sell a white leghorn roo...do you think he could have jumped her fence and she didn't know? This lady is a wonderful and honest woman, and I know she didn't sell me mixes on purpose... Here's another question: if the dad was a white leghorn, mom a RIR, could I determine sex of babies by color?

Yes, It sounds like they they are half leghorn. But you wont be able to determine the sex of them by color.​

 

[pdsavage]

Now if the RIR had been a Roo and the white legorn a hen then you could sex them by color.

 

[kla37]

You get..... a chicken!

 

[phasianidae]

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Not likely. Most White Leghorns are ether extended black or birchen at the E locus, which means they are genetically birchen or black with dominant white so they will not work to make sexlinks.

 

[pdsavage]

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Not likely. Most White Leghorns are ether extended black or birchen at the E locus, which means they are genetically birchen or black with dominant white so they will not work to make sexlinks.

That darn white allways fools me....

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

You should get White with red polka-dots.

 

[phasianidae]

Here is the result of a cross between a red columbian rooster and a California White hen:

 

[BigDaddy'sGurl]

Thanks to everyone for your information and humor! I was shocked to see little white fuzzies climbing out of those big brown eggs...

Honestly, one of the fellas looks just like a California white chick, but i know this lady didn't have anything like that...guess it's an enigma.

I sold all the RIR chicks but kept these two weirdos....we'll see what happens as they age! Hopefully they are girls... : )

 

[RAREROO]

Yep, thats the typical color when breeding with Dom White( White with black dots). They are carrying one copy of Dom White. If the White leghorns had the Dom White taken away, it would be the same as breeding with a Black or Birchen bird, which would give basicly solid black chicks, and since Dom White puts white where black would normally be, your chicks are mostly solid white instead of black.