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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Stray cats will kill young grow outs. Especially anything quail-size and under.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Ok I read about it last night and think I have it figured out. Thank you! 😁
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Those are usually the best yard roosters in my opinion.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Yes they can do well during cold months but they have to have heat and a draft free brooder if outdoors. We have successfully brooded many chicks over the years in the winter. Our brooder building is well insulated and easy to heat so chicks do well in there for the most part. One year I...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Pretty sure chicks + cold = NO. 😆
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I've never heard of that. lol. I try to avoid dipping my chicks in cold water. I prefer them to stay alive. 🤣
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    This obviously changes my original hypothesis. I just have to grow the slow featherers out and select the females from those to breed to a fast feathering male.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Okay so what I have discovered is that fast feathering is caused by a dominant gene (K) and only requires one copy to express. It is a sex-linked gene. Slow feathering (k) is a recessive gene and requires two copies to express in males (only one required in females). So the fast feathering...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    @The Moonshiner do you have any experience with slow feathering in Leghorns? Can a breed be sexable by slow feathering? Or does it have to be done by a particular cross? I have read it is sex linked. Just trying to figure these WL chicks out.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I have two Brown Leghorn roosters that were hatch mates in a pen together with 6 pullets. I need to break that group up, but for now the roosters are pretty docile with the pullets. OEGBs are a pretty docile breed also, and I have had several males together in a breeding group before with no...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Aww OEGBs are a fun breed! Congratulations on them!
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Well this is something I did not anticipate. Both of the Buff x Incomplete BTR chicks I have hatched so far are green legged. So it looks like the Buff rooster carries a green leg gene. Both parents are visibly yellow legged, so the gene has to be coming from the rooster’s side, since...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Here is one of the WL slow featherers. And here is one of the WL fast featherers. I tagged both of the slow featherers with a purple band. And let the experiment commence!
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    What kind of rooster was he? I’m so sorry you lost him. 😢
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Indeed. It’s scientific observation.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I have a hypothesis though. These White Leghorn chicks are feathering at different rates. Two have long wings that are the same length and are feathering at the same rate as the other varieties in the brooder, and two of the WL have short wings and are feathering slower. I hypothesize that...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    No chickens on the furniture. My husband has drawn the line. 🤣
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Oh the joys of house chickens and all their dust. And these little critters act like they are on some form of amphetamine! They are constantly scratching their pine shavings and kicking it out of the chick pen. Constant mess. I've gotta boot them outside soon. Probably this weekend to make...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Same breed, just different varieties. :love
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Same as last time. BC1 Crele project chicks, Buff x Incomplete BTR, and White Leghorns.
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