Leghorn Thread

[InTheJungle]

I haven't posted in a long time, but I had owned a brown leghorn rooster, a white leghorn hen (both dense aced now) but I still have my tetra tint leghorn. I'm a bit confuse do out tetra tints, as there is a girl on Facebook selling her chickens, and describes the tetra tints as a mix breed of red star (production chicken hybrid of Rhode Island Red and New Hampshire red?) and white leghorn. Mine is white white brown shading on her neck and a few black speckles, pink earlobes with white centers. If she is a hybrid then I am truly disappointed because she was ordered and purchased as a leghorn.

 

[Alaskan]

@InTheJungle well, pure bred White Leghorns can sometimes come out in an odd color.

The problem is that there are two white genes in Chickens, and one is dominant, and one is recessive. So....in white Leghorns, if they are all the dominant white, then all sorts of colors could be hiding in your flock, and every so often, one will show up (when two hiding recessive colors combine in a chick).

I bought some pure bred white leghorn eggs this spring, and one hatched out with some randomly placed black feathers. She is still a pure bred 100% leghorn. However, she is an 'off color' or 'non-standard' color.

Also, if you breed a brown leghorn to a white leghorn you can come up with all sorts of fun colors. Again, it would be a 100% leghorn.

Point being.....

if she lays white eggs

and when you bought her she was sold as a leghorn.... she could either be an 'off color' leghorn, or she could have been the wrong breed that slipped into your batch by mistake.

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

I am going to venture to say she gave you the wrong thing.

 

[chiklee]

 

[Alaskan]

@chiklee

What a cool face he is giving us!!!!!!!

 

[InTheJungle]

When Pepper lays eggs, they are a very light light beige tinted egg. But now even my reds are laying beige eggs when the mood hits them. I don't get the bold brown eggs we used to, they are very light, and when hard boiling them, they explode. Trust me, they get layena, extra cracked corn and bread, plus they get apples, fresh fruit and veggies and frozen mixed veggies daily with calcium powder. It's like they gave up after losing Reggie. Someone in here told me Pepper was an honest to goodness leghorn. I really don't mind. But I do mind that after two... Maybe three years, we have no eggs, save for one a day and there are three chickens and two ducks. Pepper, Thelma, Louise and Daisy and Daphne. The only way to tell the mallards apart is to stare at them for about twenty minutes and the patterns start to stick out. Daphne has more black and here head is darker, plus one of them wags her tail and is more vocal than the other.

 

[lazy gardener]

Sounds like your gals have reached the end of their production. Perhaps time to start some new chicks?

I threw a mouse in the run yesterday. Didn't last long in the ensuing scrimmage. RCBL was the winner!

 

[InTheJungle]

Got one chicken egg AND TWO DUCK EGGS TODAY! e

 

[Alaskan]

Got one chicken egg AND TWO DUCK EGGS TODAY!

 

[jmcgee83]

Hi! I just hatched out my first leghorns. They are bantam dark brown. Can I tell their what sex they are by their coloring? They look like two different chicks one way lighter than the other. I'm really hoping for a pair! Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks!