Hello, everyone!
How do you do?
Greetings from Greece.
I am starting to create a flock of leghorns again. I am thinking to focus on black color, because it handles better:
At the moment my flock contains:
How do you do?
Greetings from Greece.
I am starting to create a flock of leghorns again. I am thinking to focus on black color, because it handles better:
- predators
- cold
- predators
- my love for chickens
At the moment my flock contains:
- one black italianer cockerel
- two black italianer pullets
- one isabella italianer pullet
- ten hy-line w-80 pullets
- ten dominant leghorn d-229 pullets
According to the chicken calculator and friends of mine who know genetics, the isabella will give me 50% solid black color and 50% black with a bit "copper ground gold" color in the feathers. I don't breed for color perfection, so it isn't a problem for me.
My first question is: Will I take yellow legs when cross isabella to my black boy?
Whites now. They are dominant whites, I know. This is bad. They are smaller than the italianer strains too. I know this is bad. But, I need their unbeatable laying qualities. Hy-lines are better in feed consumption and feed utilization. Dominants have the best tempeament, forage better, convert free range in feed and lay huge eggs. Let's come closer to the point.
My boy if crossed to the commercial whites will give white f1 chickens with some black feathers. I will corn raise the males in order to not spend a lot of money for their feed and slaughter them in about 4 months after hatch.
I want to cross the f1 females again to a black italianer rooster or to a british type black leghorn rooster.
My second question is: Will I take at least at 50% solid black color by this cross?