BackYard Chickens

Advanced Search

BackYard Chickens › BYC Forum › Chicken Breeds › Breeds, Genetics, & Showing › Mille Fleur Leghorn Thread PIC HEAVY

Recent Images In This Thread

Recent Reviews

Nankin Bantams
Reviewed by Cambium29

We love our Nankin hen. She's very sweet and good natured, excellent bird for beginners or kids. She comes when called, she's an excellent bug hunter, likes to sit on your lap (or head, or...

Full Review
Barnevelder
Reviewed by scwheeler24

I have 6 Barnies, they did start laying at about 28 weeks, but that is not an issue with me. Most of my poultry did. They don't lay the really dark eggs, but they are large, dark brown and some...

Full Review
2 Gallon Double Wall Fount
Reviewed by awaxt2003

don't buy

Full Review
Leghorn
Reviewed by Chicken Goddess

Leghorns are great egg laying chickens. They are friendly to other Leghorns and can easily fly. The only problems is that they are bad in the pecking order and they can make a mess of the yard....

Full Review
Australorp
Reviewed by chickenman98

I will start by saying that I love Australorps. In fact, my very favorite hen is an Australorp. She is such a sweet chicken and just let's you walk right up to her to pick her up. She doesn't run...

Full Review

New Posts All Forums:Forum Nav:

Mille Fleur Leghorn Thread PIC HEAVY - Page 5

Subscribe Search This Thread

Start a New Thread

post #41 of 129

3/7/12 at 7:17am

Thread Starter

cherylcohen
The Omelet Ranch

Location: SF East Bay CA
Joined: 9/2009
Posts: 5,352
offline

Select All Posts By This User

Just hatched 24 chicks! If interested in owning some, PM me!

Featured Stories on BackYard Chickens

Why Join BackYard Chickens?

The Basics Of Raising Chickens - Raising Chickens 101

Poll: Why raise backyard chickens?

post #42 of 129

3/11/12 at 9:12am

Thread Starter

cherylcohen
The Omelet Ranch

Location: SF East Bay CA
Joined: 9/2009
Posts: 5,352
offline

Select All Posts By This User

New additions to the flock!!

Edited by cherylcohen - 3/11/12 at 9:14am

post #43 of 129

3/11/12 at 2:42pm

flyingmonkeypoop

Location: Deer Park Washington
Joined: 4/2007
Posts: 3,075
offline

Select All Posts By This User

Me being the nerd that I am, I would cross that rooster with some light browns and work on spangled/ mottled light browns

http://www.facebook.com/michael.baker1

http://infinityheartfarm.com/poultrybarn.html

http://www.facebook.com/michael.baker1

http://infinityheartfarm.com/poultrybarn.html

post #44 of 129

3/11/12 at 3:14pm

Whittni

Location: Southern Utah
Joined: 3/2011
Posts: 2,262
offline

Select All Posts By This User

They look nice, but I prefer a darker rooster and a lighter hen with "too much" speckling.

Whit's Flock (My Chickens, Rabbit & Pigeons) (Click to show)

~Whittni, a happy owner of: 2 Silver Laced Wyandotte pullets, 1 Black Sexlink pullet, 1 Buff Orpington pullet, 1 Black Tailed Buff Japanese Bantam pullet and 1 Black Rosecomb Bantam cockerel.

Whit's Flock (My Chickens, Rabbit & Pigeons) (Click to show)

~Whittni, a happy owner of: 2 Silver Laced Wyandotte pullets, 1 Black Sexlink pullet, 1 Buff Orpington pullet, 1 Black Tailed Buff Japanese Bantam pullet and 1 Black Rosecomb Bantam cockerel.

post #45 of 129

3/12/12 at 8:55am

Chic-n-farmer
Showers of Blessings

Location: Clark CO. IL 25 Chicken Years
Joined: 7/2008
Posts: 2,755
offline

Select All Posts By This User

I would take them just the way they are and hope for a yard full of babies soon!

Quote:

Originally Posted by cherylcohen

New additions to the flock!!

Try to live your life like you are worth the price Jesus paid.

Bantams: Blue, Black Wyandottes~ Black Cochin~D'uccles~Br Leghorns~Barred Rocks Large Fowl: White Leghorns~Polish
"You need chickens. It's in your blood." my incredibly understanding and indulgent husband!

Try to live your life like you are worth the price Jesus paid.

post #46 of 129

3/12/12 at 1:17pm

Thread Starter

cherylcohen
The Omelet Ranch

Location: SF East Bay CA
Joined: 9/2009
Posts: 5,352
offline

Select All Posts By This User

Thanks everyone, I've got chicks and hatching eggs available on a limited basis, PM me if you are interested

post #47 of 129

3/12/12 at 1:25pm

Thread Starter

cherylcohen
The Omelet Ranch

Location: SF East Bay CA
Joined: 9/2009
Posts: 5,352
offline

Select All Posts By This User

WOOHOO check out the Heritage Poultry Breeders Association page they just published on our leghorns!

http://hpbaa.com/Leghorn.html

post #48 of 129

5/2/12 at 7:37pm

tracyork

Location: Tillamook, Oregon
Joined: 7/2009
Posts: 39
offline

Select All Posts By This User

Hi, I have a question about this breed. I have 4 chicks that were hatched from Cheryl's eggs on Apriln 9th, so they are 3 weeks old. They were all very light yellow when I got them, but they have started to differentiate. One is quite a bit darker, while the other 3 are still very light. I have never hatched any breed that was even close to this color (mostly blacks, blues, cuckoos), so I wasn't sure if this is just genetic variability, or if I am starting to see sex linked color characteristics (for example, I have heard that Salmon Fav roosters become quite obvious by 4 weeks due to the darker coloring they develop).

Any input is appreciated. I'm excited to have them, and will obviously see what they develop into over time anyway.

Thanks,

Tracy

post #49 of 129

5/3/12 at 6:02am

Raven1

Location: Carthage, TN
Joined: 12/2008
Posts: 1,592
offline

Select All Posts By This User

Quote:

Originally Posted by cherylcohen

WOOHOO check out the Heritage Poultry Breeders Association page they just published on our leghorns!

http://hpbaa.com/Leghorn.html

That is very cool Congrats!!!!

~S & S FARMS~ Doing our best to breed the finest, Pied Peafowl, Black Copper, Blue Copper, Golden Cuckoo, White, and Birchen Marans, Exchequer Leghorns, Black Crested White Polish, and Swedish Flower Hens.

post #50 of 129

5/3/12 at 6:44am

Thread Starter

cherylcohen
The Omelet Ranch

Location: SF East Bay CA
Joined: 9/2009
Posts: 5,352
offline

Select All Posts By This User

Quote:

Originally Posted by tracyork

Any input is appreciated. I'm excited to have them, and will obviously see what they develop into over time anyway.

Thanks,

Tracy

There is so little information about this breed and only speculation as to exactly what was used to create them. My experience with coloring is that most hatch the typical warm yellow color. Females are feathering in with ginger colors like the new girl above or shades of deeper mahogony. At this stage in the breed regeneration I'm not culling for color but only for type. Build the barn...then paint it right? :) Also as there is not a breed standard for this variety it will be up to me and a handful of others to determine which color direction we want to take.