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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: rockstar on November 18, 2015, 08:24:45 pm

Title: RIR cockeral xLight Sussex
Post by: rockstar on November 18, 2015, 08:24:45 pm

Well my RIR cockerel died last week.He was the Father to a hatch of 1 female and 4 cockerals.  can anyone tell me the breed name of these cockerals they are very pretty coloured white and black with some brown feathers on the wing ,I was wondering would one be any good to put with Light sussex hens so I could sex link chicks .
 

Title: Re: RIR cockeral xLight Sussex
Post by: nimbusllama on November 20, 2015, 08:43:04 am

Did you mean that the mother of your 5 birds was a Light Sussex? If so then the crossbred cockerels will not work for sex linkage.  As I understand it has to be a 'gold' cock (ie RIR) onto a 'silver' hen (ie LS).  I hope this helps.


https://poultrykeeper.com/poultry-breeding/gold-and-silver-sex-linkage/


   

Title: Re: RIR cockeral xLight Sussex
Post by: rockstar on November 20, 2015, 09:30:04 pm

Thanks for your help nimbusllama and the link on the breeding.looks like the cockerals will have to go for meat.

Title: Re: RIR cockeral xLight Sussex
Post by: sokel on November 22, 2015, 02:00:13 am

I use a gold Silkie Cockerel on my light Sussex hens. All of the hens take the gold colour from the  Silkie cockerel and the cockerel chicks come out white/silver from the LS hens

Title: Re: RIR cockeral xLight Sussex
Post by: Bramham Wiltshire Horns on November 24, 2015, 02:40:01 pm

so a RIR cockerel x light sussex hen will produce silver/light cockerels and dark hens?

when people breed these for meat do they just eat the cockerels or both

and do the hens produce good eggs

thanks

Title: Re: RIR cockeral xLight Sussex
Post by: sokel on November 24, 2015, 07:51:17 pm

The hens produce as many eggs as the pure LS or RIR do

Title: Re: RIR cockeral xLight Sussex
Post by: Stereo on November 24, 2015, 08:00:46 pm

They may well produce more eggs than a pure breed and will probably lay through winter better. This is the classic cross to get the 'brown hen' you see all around the place. The boys come out white so you can either raise them for meat (not much) or some people like the colour difference so they can get rid of them on day 1.

Title: Re: RIR cockeral xLight Sussex
Post by: Bramham Wiltshire Horns on November 25, 2015, 07:48:48 am

Exactly the info I was after
Thanks

Title: Re: RIR cockeral xLight Sussex
Post by: Robyn on November 25, 2015, 11:57:41 am

Quote from: nimbusllama on November 20, 2015, 08:43:04 am

Did you mean that the mother of your 5 birds was a Light Sussex? If so then the crossbred cockerels will not work for sex linkage.  As I understand it has to be a 'gold' cock (ie RIR) onto a 'silver' hen (ie LS).  I hope this helps.
https://poultrykeeper.com/poultry-breeding/gold-and-silver-sex-linkage/

Thank you for the link, unfortunately when I click on it, I get the message 'this web page is not available'.
Is it just me, or is anyone else having the same response?

Title: Re: RIR cockeral xLight Sussex
Post by: nimbusllama on November 25, 2015, 12:12:29 pm

I just clicked on it again and it worked....

Title: Re: RIR cockeral xLight Sussex
Post by: Robyn on November 25, 2015, 05:37:56 pm

It must be something to do with my computer!

The message I get each time is-
'This web page is not available'
ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
A secure connection cannot be established because this site uses an unsupported protocol.

I have the same message when I attempt to access 'https://poultrykeeper.com' via Google.