Thanks. When my grandmother passed and I was going through old drawings I did, I noticed most of the chickens looked like a silver laced leghorn if anything. When I was a teen, I wanted to combine lacing and the leghorn type but didn't have the knowledge of genetics back then to make it happen. Over the last few years I've been seeing all of the lovely leghorns over in Europe. They have such an amazing variety of colors and patterns including silver laced, gold laced, and blue laced gold. I figure if they can do it, why can't I. I wanted to make them LF but I already had a few of the 'ingredients' in bantam so I started on bantam first. Out of 60 chicks I got a great pair and a fair trio this season. Next year will be much better. Since the birds I kept back are all blue laced gold but carry mahogany, I should get the basic expression of blue with gold and red so gold laced will pop out too. Once I get the pattern refined and type a little better, I plan to make bantam silver laced next. Maybe in a few years they will be the base for making LF laced leghorns.
The blue light Browns are a side project of the blue laced reds. Some birds had no lacing but great type from the last batch so I figure it is a good start. I've got a friend working on making large fowl blue light browns too
The blue light Browns are a side project of the blue laced reds. Some birds had no lacing but great type from the last batch so I figure it is a good start. I've got a friend working on making large fowl blue light browns too
