what you get when you cross a rir and rsl??

[kryptoniteqhs]

I am hatching my eggs from my rir rooster and my red sexlink hen...this is the first and last time i will be doing this because this is the first time i have fertile eggs of my own and i want to see if they "work" lol....so anyways, im into the whole pure bred stuff and am hatching my pure rir eggs too, but i am just wondering what the chicks might look like from my red sexlink hen and my rhode island red roo?? BTW if anyone wants these when they hatch i will probably be getting rid of them.......Has anyone done this?? Do you have pictures???

 

[silkiechicken]

You'll probably have some mutts that will end up looking a lot like your pure bred RIR's till they grow up since the sexlinks are probably half RIR.

I've had 3/4 RIR's who looked just like their RIR moms except for the inherited pea comb from their dad.

 

[kryptoniteqhs]

what kind was daddy?

 

[EliteTempleton]

I'd love to take them mutts but they would need to be shipped. Unless of course you were already planning a trip to/near Michigan and could drop them off on the way!

I would only want 2 but I know some local folks who would probably be happy to take the rest.

 

[kryptoniteqhs]

ok well see what the weather forecast is after they hatch and well see if we cant plan ahead where its warm for a few days....ive never shipped before...but we'll see what happens lol...

 

[EliteTempleton]

I'm sure we can figure it out or find someone to help us.

 

[kryptoniteqhs]

most definitely!!! wooh hoo!

 

[davidb]

I hatched some this year, I bought a trio of RIR,s to get some eggs to put under some hens I had. The RIR hens were old and not laying to good, and then, a hawk got one of them, so the only other hens I could find for sale were two red star hens. to make a long story short . I set 6 pure RIR's under a hen and hatched three.Set 6 more got three agin. My other RIR hen went the way of the world, I then set 10 RIR's/ R s got 10. set Twelve RIR/R s Hatched twelve. My RIR roo was young so were the r.s. hens so I guess thats where I got the better hatch ratio. anyway the crosses came mostly looking just like RIR's ,some but not many had a few white feathers in their wings and four came back looking like their mothers. Ive all ways heard if you cross two different strains of chickens, you will get 25% pure from hen 25% pure from roo. and 50% cross bred. and as Ive made many crosses over the years, that holds pretty close to at least the conformation and color of the crosses.

 

[kryptoniteqhs]

you cant sell them as pure tho right? i wouldnt want someone doing that to me....i dont think anyways lol....so can you tell right away which ones are gonna be which??

 

[davidb]

I would not sell them as pure, but many people do , as long as you breed say, the RIR back to RIR , You will never notice the difference and they will be and look pure, But the RIR that you hatched will have a ressivie gene of the red star and if bred back to a R.S. ,you will get more ratio of R.S. next hatch. Same the the 50% ones if you go back with RIR they will hatch more RIR next time or go back with R.S. the same, But keep in mind the R.S. is a sex link meaning they bred a dark to a white chicken .so they can be sexed when hatched. The red Star is at least 50% RIR and when bred back will not get the same results. because of the genic make up .