Do production red breed true?

[zazouse]

if you breed two production reds ,will they stll look like productin reds?

I already looked in search area but couldn't find anything.

 

[pdsavage]

well if you breed em with a production red roo then you will get a mix of colors,might get white,red,off white and maby even buff....

 

[zazouse]

Thank you,

i just hatched out 240 chicks of different breeds, and did not reconize some of the chicks colors so i can only assume they are production reds, i sold almost all the chicks this weekend, but kept a few of the oddball to see how they feather out.

 

[Goose and Fig]

I hatched some production red (hatchery RIR) and they looked just like mom & dad. Some had pencilling on the wings when they were little, but they all grew up to look like hatchery RIR (lighter red than heritage RIR)

 

[()relics]

production reds are simply that Production Reds...different hatcheries/breeders use different parent stock to get their exact recipe for a production red....They really aren't produced with the intention breeding true they are produced to lay eggs...Essentially they are a hybrid specifically an egg laying hybrid...Not any sort of a purebred true breeding variety...They may hatch eggs that look like the parent birds and they may not depending again on the parent birds genetic make-up...You could surely breed your own production line from a production line but it may not show all the "hybrid vigor" that the original bird had...

 

[Illia]

Yeah it really depends on A) What kind of production reds you have and B) What you consider a production red. . . I call all hatchery quality "Rhode Island Reds" Production Reds, and those do indeed breed true, but if yours are sex links. . . No, they don't breed true.

 

[paduanchook]

I thot pro reds were a rir x new hampsire. New hamp being bred from rir. So how could you be throwing different colors unless you are confusing them with sex links?

 

[Chris09]

A Production Red can be bred solely from the Rhode Island Red (like the New Hampshire) or it can be a Rhode Island Red with Leghorn blood introduced...
The Production Red that is bred solely from the Rhode Island Red will bread some what true.. (color could be a different shade of red).
If you bred a Production Red that is from a Rhode Island Red with Leghorn blood introduced then you could get birds that are no where near what the parent stock look like..




Chris

 

[MissPrissy]

Quote:
A production red is NOT a hatchery Rhode Island Red.

A production red is a cross breed sex link that is sold by any number of names based on the female chicks hatching with visible red feathering to indicate they indeed are females that will lay eggs.

Breeding two mutt chickens will give more mutt chickens but they will not give you the same colors as the parent birds.

Both Red and Black Sex-Links use a red male for the father. Either a Rhode Island Red or a New Hampshire may be used.

Black Sex-Links are produced using a Barred Rock as the mother. Both sexes hatch out black, but the males have a white dot on their heads. Pullets feather out black with some red in neck feathers. Males feather out with the Barred Rock pattern along with a few red feathers. Black Sex-Links are often referred to as Rock Reds.

Red Sex-Links are the result of various crosses. White Rocks with the silver factor (the dominant white gene would produce all white offspring) are crossed with a New Hampshire male to produce the Golden Comet. Silver Laced Wyandotte crossed with New Hampshire gives the Cinnamon Queen. Two other crosses are obtained with Rhode Island White x Rhode Island Red, and Delaware x Production Red. These two crosses are simply called Red Sex-Links. Males hatch out white and, depending on the cross, feather out to pure white or with some black feathering. Females hatch out buff or red also depending on cross, and they feather out in one of three ways.

1. Buff with white or tinted undercolor (such as Golden Comet, Rhode Island Red x Rhode Island White)
2. Red with White or tinted undercolor (Cinnamon Queen)
3. Red with Red undercolor (Delaware x Production Red) (In this color pattern it is almost impossible to distinguish daughters' color from father's color.)

http://feathersite.com/Poultry/CGP/Sex-links/BRKSexLink.html​

 

[Chris09]

Production Red--
Production Reds were developed to compete with the Rhode Island Reds in egg laying contests. Crossing Leghorn blood into the standard Rhode Island Red gave an edge on the resultant offspring, which would be used in competition. The ROP egg laying contests held in the North East were supposed to have strict standards; only allowing 10 purebred pullets, that were true to the breed in competition, to be entered by any poultry farm. But it appears the officials of many of the contests did not enforce all the rules. Perhaps they allowed the Production Reds into competition out curiosity? Perhaps they felt a more productive commercial line of brown egg-layer was needed?
Unfortunately, the Standard Rhode Island Red breeders who competed honestly in these Northern ROP contests were beaten by these non-standard high egg-laying birds, and by the 1950s the Production Reds and the commercial New Hampshire’s just about put the purebred Rhode Island Red into extinction. Because of the new popularity of the Production Red and New Hampshire, by 1947 the Rhode Island Red Club membership dropped from a high of 5000 members in the late 1920s, to about 275 members in the early 1950s. This was the beginning of the commercial boom in this country for large chicken house cage operations, and the Production Red soon dominated the brown egg-laying market.
http://bloslspoutlryfarm.tripod.com/id29.html

I myself never herd a Production Red being called a Sex-link....

Chris