They are sex-link hybrid chickens: you can tell the sex of baby chicks when they first hatch. Both sexes have yellow eyes, beak, and legs. Golden Comet roosters are all white or mainly white with red shoulder feathers. According to Vivek Kapur, Professor of Animal Science at Penn State University, the breeding of such birds does not focus on survival traits, as “… there is usually a trade-off between increased resistance to disease and egg or meat production.” Photo courtesy of Cackle Hatchery® Golden Comet Chicks Are Sex-Linkedĭescription: Golden Comet hens have an upright U-shaped body bearing mainly red-brown feathers interspersed with white. Photo ©īiodiversity: Parental strains are selectively bred for high productivity, which is known to have an effect of limiting genetic diversity. Golden Comet chickens are friendly, calm and prolific layers, making excellent backyard birds, but at the price of a short life and susceptibility to reproductive tract issues. As Golden Comets have proved to adapt easily to the free-range environment, they have become popular with backyard and small-farm chicken keepers and can be bought direct from hatcheries. Golden Comet chickens are the most commonly kept rescue hens sold to the public after their first two years in commercial production. This led to the accepted nomenclature of hybrid, denoting the cross of selected breeds for commercial production. A faster rate of growth, earlier maturity, and increased egg yield was apparent in crossbred chickens due to hybrid vigor. History: Hybrid chickens have been popular for commercial production since the early twentieth century. Rhode Island Whites are dual-purpose birds developed in 1888 from partridge Cochin chickens, white Wyandotte chickens, and white Leghorn chickens.
White Rocks were selected as broilers from the Plymouth Rock chicken, a dual-purpose breed created in Massachusetts in the early nineteenth century from Black Java hens and a barred rooster. New Hampshire chickens were bred from Rhode Island Reds around 1935 as early maturing, large brown egg layers. Modern strains are selected for egg production. Rhode Island Red chickens were developed in the late nineteenth century from Malay chickens and brown Leghorns as a dual-purpose breed. Origin: Golden Comet chickens are bred for the commercial egg market in the USA from strains of Rhode Island Red roosters, such as New Hampshires or Cherry Eggers, mated with White Rock or Rhode Island White hens (with the silver factor rather than the dominant white gene), depending on hatchery preferences. Breed: The Golden Comet chicken is a breed hybrid also known as Golden Buff, Red Star, Cinnamon Queen, and Gold Sex-Link.
0 kommentar(er)
