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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.
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