Scarlet

The SASSO Scarlet features striking, red feathers and lays beautiful light brown eggs. By raising this bird, you also benefit from good performance as the Scarlet gains weight with little management, which results in excellent meat quality. Another advantage is that the feathering can be used to identify the sex of the day-old chicks. The Scarlet laying hen has been specially selected to perform and be easy to manage in more challenging environments such as free range and backyard systems.

Laying period data:

Egg production (cumulative) at 75 weeks: 305
Body weight at 5% production: 1969 g
Body weight at 75 weeks: 2934 g
Average feed intake from 20 to 75 weeks: 49.3 kg
Produced egg mass: 18.6 kg
Average feed per egg: 162 g

Unique benefits

High quality meat

The SASSO Scarlet offers top quality and tasty meat.

Feather sexable chicks

With this beautiful red bird, you will get autosexing day old chicks.

Thrives in all types of production

Being a rustic dual purpose chicken, the Scarlet will perform in every type of poultry farming.

Male growing performance

Age in days	Male body weight (g)	FCR
1	37
7	98
14	195
21	302	1.52
28	487	1.73
35	689	1.92
42	916	2.10
49	1157	2.25
56	1381	2.43
63	1657	2.62
70	1886	2.88
77	2083	3.18
84	2261	3.51

Laying performance

Age in weeks	Body weight theo. (g)	Total lay real (%)	Cumulative egg production theo.	Egg weight theo. (g)	Feed consumption theo. (g)
21	2036	21.0	2	42	125
27	2440	94.0	31	55	138
40	2567	87.5	113	62	131
50	2692	82.5	172	63	125
60	2797	77.5	228	63	119
75	2934	70.0	305	64	112

These recommendations, based on our experience, are intended to allow the expression of our strains’ genetic potential in normal operations without any responsibility on the part of SASSO. An environment, biosecurity conditions, the geographical location, or specific equipment might require adaptations that have not been taken in consideration in these general recommendations.