Spring Valley, IL
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- Purpose
- eggs
- Egg color
- brown
- Eggs / year
- ~260
- Hen weight
- ~5.5 lbs
- Cold hardy
- Yes
- Heat tolerant
- Yes
- Temperament
- docile, calm, confident
- Forages
- good
- Broodiness
- low
- NPIP stock code
- R239
- Origin
- United States (commercial hybrid)
Breed guide
Black Sex-Link
Also known as: Black Star, Black Rock
Hybrid
A production cross with no breed standard. Chicks hatched from these birds will vary from their parents.
Sex-linked hybrid, usually Rhode Island Red males over Barred Rock hens. Pullets hatch black and cockerels show a head spot. Grown hens are black with gold hackle lacing. They run heavier than red sex-links, hold up a little better, and lay about the same.
Keeper's notes
An easy layer that takes cold, and it will do fine in a backyard flock anywhere. Production hybrids do not breed true, so you buy replacements or re-cross them yourself.
Black Sex-Link listings
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Where to find Black Sex-Link
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Regional breeders with this breed on file (17)
Columbia, IL
Evansville, IL
Marion, IL
Jerseyville, IL
IL
Capac, MI
Wadsworth, OH
Cortland, OH
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Regional hatcheries that carry it (5)
Zeeland, MI
OH
Peebles, OH
OH
La Rue, OH
Sourced from NPIP state directories, matched by the stock codes each participant registers. A flock may keep breeds beyond what it registers, so this list runs conservative.
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