What do you get when you breed a Red Sex Link to a Red Sex Link?

[ragerkid2]

What do you get when you breed a Red Sex Link to a Red Sex Link?
Im just curious = ]
thanks!

 

[speckledhen]

You get a more mixed mutt than you started with. A red sexlink is a hybrid of two breeds already. Breed those and they get even more mixed.

 

[Illia]

Color-wise you'll get a bunch of birds that look like red sex-links, birds that are solid white, and birds that look like production reds. Egg laying will mostly be excellent, body type will vary but in the most part be typical production-layer in type.

 

[sixshooter60]

tell me how they could possibly be more mixed please??? they are a hybrid of two breeds and two breeds only so no matter how many times you cross them back on themselves still only two breeds remain.. granted the color will somewhat change and they loose some of their hybrid vigor but still make great layers..they will no longer be sex links as the F2 will be different in color

 

[ragerkid2]

okay thanks I was just wondering =] i dont have a roo sex link anyways lol

 

[speckledhen]

The reason I said a "more mixed up mutt" is that two hybrids bred together doesn't make another hybrid of two breeds. It's second generation. Not a breed, not a sex link.


ETA: don't mean to imply there's anything wrong with it, just that you'll have a nice backyard crossbreed chicken and probably a good layer.

 

[Fred's Hens]

Lots of folks breed them and they lay well for the first few generations with little drop off in vigor. The sex linking is lost, of course. Basically, you are now raising mutts with heritage in the white world and in the red world. I say merely "white" and "red" because the original commercial parent stock is itself a carefully bred, high producing strain. The Red rooster used is NOT a pure RIR, nor is the hen used a pure RIW or Del, but "patented" strains from the genetics companies of Bovan, Hendricks, ISA, DeKalb, etc. Nothing wrong with that. No worse than any other barn yard chicken, and better layers than most.