Turkeys with the black winged bronze base are just so beautiful! Sweetgrass or black winged bronze, I love the "eye spots" and gloss on their secondaries.
Someday I hope to have a flock as beautiful as yours.
I ordered something from an Amazon a couple of weeks ago and they keep pushing it back
I can't speak for Leghorns but the Anconas I had were active yet curious and friendly. Not like lap birds but definitely friendly.
Leghorns are kind of elegant here, you know?
The only difference between Anconas and Leghorns is how their backs are described.
The Italian ones are more upright and long legged.
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The tails and humongous combs are so cute. It's always weird how they kind of lean down though. I prefer when they lean the other way... Upright like the d'Anvers
Buff genetics aren't very well understood, it's a lot of pheomelanin enhancers together on a wheaten base.
I think the grey backs reminds me of columbian color down so you might get some more color on that too.
It's hard to say, but I imagine their chicks would be darker like them and they would not produce fully buff offspring if bred together (if they are a pair.)
No, ear tufts is lethal, but he doesn't have those so I'm not worried. Sometimes homozygous rumpless birds have lower fertility so there are many heterozygous ones in the Araucana population, that's why I don't know what he has.
Rumpless is dominant but he may only have one copy. You will get rumpless (and maybe some tailed) olive eggers with pea combs (more like an intermediate, a pingle comb like the father), single combs, and beards, and the same coloration as their mothers.
A lot of the gold enhancing genes in buffs are dominant so if their parents were carrying the recessive genes for more melanin, it makes sense that they would produce these chicks.