DOMINANT BROWN D 102 is a classic hybrid of light red feathers, used in the past in intensive cage hatcheries in the Czech Republic and also in Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine. These days, it is used primarily as a final hybrid for alternative and domestic self-sufficient breeds. Capons are used to produce traditional, highly delicious poultry meat.
The asset is high productivity, namely laying over 310 eggs, verified in cage conditions at an international testing station. Brown eggshell colour is characteristic. The reddish-brown feather colour is complemented by the white colour of the flight feathers and tail.
This program is the result of cross breeding the Rhode Island Red (RIR) paternal population and the Rhode Island White (RIW) maternal population. When hatching one-day-old chickens, colour sexing is applied by using allele of the Silver/Gold "S/s" gene, where the one-day-old cockerel acquires the dominant allele of this "S" gene and is yellow, while the one-day-old hen receives the recessive allele "s" from the father and is brown.
