Post Pics of your Leghorns

[chickenboy100]

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Bubba Roo doesn't care much for the cold wind and snow, but still standing (well, sitting) guard. His ladies have decided to stay inside for awhile.

ooooohhh-aaaaahhhhh Pretty pretty!!! I'm jealous!

 

[jonservidio]

broody hatchery leghorn

 

[Alaskan]

two cute leghorn chicks

 

[chickenboy100]

two cute leghorn chicks

Awwww what variety?

 

[Alaskan]

they are a cross, dark brown leghorn dad over white leghorn mom

 

[chickenboy100]

Nice, anything in specific you're breeding for?

 

[cookfamilyfarm]

Love the pics

 

[Alaskan]

Nice, anything in specific you're breeding for?

actually, usually when you breed brown with white, you end up with some kind of pyle (a white bird with some red wash to the feathers, on a female usually on the breast, on the male, usually on the back and neck, or something like that).

I was crossing my super high production white single comb leghorns, with my very pretty and better health/longevity but not as good layers dark brown rose comb Leghorn rooster...............and am SUPER bummed

I would have been happy with any leghorn with a rose comb, and BOTH chicks have single combs.... so that means that my rooster is HETERO not HOMOzygous for rose comb, and I want to throw a fit and scream, tear my hair out, etc.

Rose comb is dominant.... so anything that I bred to my rose comb rooster should have hatched rose comb...... but it didn't.... anyway

I am just super bummed.

 

[jonservidio]

keep trying, you'll get some, it should be 50/50, right?

 

[Alaskan]

yep....