About Star Chickens

Red and Black Stars are a great for any purpose. Hens are excellent egg layers, only slowing down during cold weather. The roosters carry their weight by being fantastic meat birds. Either males or females are easy to use for shows, but what makes them most useful is their function as a sex link breed, used to breed toward a specific quality you're looking for in a later generation.  

Stars are friendly and dependable. Being a sex link breed also makes them a little tougher than your average chicken, so they can tolerate quite a lot.  

Star chickens are have a small red comb, small red wattles, and red around the eyes. Their tails are modest in stature with only a very small carriage. Red Star hens grow up to have a mostly red coloring while Black Star hens are, naturally, black. Red Star roosters are white with red and brown splotched in places while Black Star roosters look much more like the Barred Rock roosters.