What is a Rhod Island Red & Rhode Island White cross called?

[brader1993]

What is a Rhod Island Red & Rhode Island White cross called?

 

[stephanie1992]

Isa Brown

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/...island-red-female-and-rhode-island-white-male

 

[big medicine]

If a Isa Brown was a simple RIR/RIW cross, wouldn't they be rose combed ?

 

[Fred's Hens]

An ISA Brown is a four way cross.
http://www.morrishatchery.com/mngmt_guides/ISA Brown Guide-Nov. 3,2010.pdf

If the RIR is the male and the RIW is the female and she carries the silver(white) required, the result could be sexed at hatch, aka sexlink.

 

[Ashburnham]

Most interesting Fred- I never knew they were a 4 way cross.

 

[Fred's Hens]

Most interesting Fred- I never knew they were a 4 way cross.

Yup. The ISA has been bred for over 30 years and still holds most of the world's brown egg laying records for commercial hens. Here's the 30 pullets I'm brooding right now.

 

[Ashburnham]

I put a part Araucana rooster over some of mine and they 'split" fairly evenly into white and red hens in the first cross.

 

[SpiritedFarm]

I thought that cross was a golden sex-link...or is that the same thing?

 

[Ashburnham]

Here is how they "split" -

 

[Chris09]

What is a Rhod Island Red & Rhode Island White cross called?

IMHO, they are a cross breed (yes a cross breed because they are different breeds)


Chris