Red Barred Rhodebar
A variety of the Rhodebar
Chicken · Brown eggs · Laying
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About the Red Barred Rhodebar
The Rhodebar's sole and defining colour: a deep red ground carrying fine barring throughout, with black-and-silver barred tails. The barring is the genetic basis of its autosexing trait — at a day old cockerels hatch plain yellow while pullets show dark dorsal stripes and an eye-line. Standardised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain in the early 1950s, it remains a Rhode Island Red-derived dual-purpose utility layer of tinted-brown eggs, now an RBST priority-listed rarity.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Brown
- Eggs per year
- About 220
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure, Rare
- Auto-sexing
- Yes
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus