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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Reckon customs would believe it if we wrote "not eggs" on the package?
  2. KF0002

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I have a friend that can possibly send me SDW eggs this fall or next year, so it may be better to go that route. He just got some chicks. We shall see.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I actually learned about the sex-linked thing by accident way before I knew anything at all about chicken genetics. We were crossing lines of Game (Red x Gray, aka GDW x SDW), and I realized the pullets from the cross were all red (GDW) and the males were Golden Gray (golden duckwing) and could...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Only males can be golden duckwing as they can have both a copy of gold and silver at the same time. Golden meaning they have silver hackles and saddles and a red shoulder. Females can either be gold or silver, but not both at the same time.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    A GDW male over a SDW female would produce GDW females and Golden duckwing (silver/gold) males. Which could easily be sexed at hatch by their colors.
  6. KF0002

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    No a SDW male over a GDW female will produce Golden (silver/gold) DW males and SDW females which will all look alike at hatch. A GDW male over a SDW female would be the only way to make it a sex-linked cross and be able to visually sex chicks at hatch.
  7. KF0002

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    So negative on the SDW project using Games? I respect your alls opinions so if you think it would be too much of a hassle, I will just focus on the varieties I already have. :)
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Oops I meant to quote @Chookwagn on that last post. My bad.
  9. KF0002

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Yes because silver is sex-linked and a female can only carry one copy of silver and pass that copy to her sons only. So the females would hatch looking like brown leghorns and the males would be golden duckwing (silver/gold), and they look very much like SDW at hatch.
  10. KF0002

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Agreed. And the Crele Leghorns you are working on will be autosexing also once you get the males coming double barred. So you would have it covered both ways. And if you only sold day old pullets, no one would be able to breed the crele leghorns without a rooster unless they actually know how...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    It is hard to get decent SDWs here. Some hatcheries have them, but not many I don't think. I am still scarred from ordering chicks last year from MM and a lot of the chicks arriving dead in the box. Then the chicks they sent to replace those lost during shipping also arrived dead. :(
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Is it worth trying to make my own line using a Gray (SDW) Gamecock over a Brown Leghorn hen, then breed a golden duckwing F1 male from the pair to another brown leghorn hen next year, then mate the BC1 birds together to create the F2 SDW Leghorns?
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    SDW and GDW (Brown Leghorn) are very easy to distinguish at hatch. GDW are more a brownish red tone in their face and body and have chipmunk stripes, and SDW have grayish down color with chipmunk stripes. SDW GDW SDW and GDW together I do not own these photos. I found them on the...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Wow, we would be setting live traps and dispatching cats if they were a predator problem here. Our LGDs keep the ferals ran off luckily, but tolerate our two farm cats. The two female cats we have now keep the rodent population way down, so they are helpful. They live outside and come in to...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I would think maybe an autosexing or sex-linked Leghorn. Autosexing breeds are pretty popular, and if you have some silver females and a brown duckwing male, you could create sex linked Leghorns and sell day old pullets as you crank them out. TSC stays sold out of chicks so you would make a...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    That is so sad someone dumped a house cat. People are slime balls. We have two farm cats of our own, and both are spayed. Two out of three of our neighbors' Pyrenees have had litters of pups this year because they refuse to spay their intact females and refuse to keep their dogs at home. So...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    The Buff chicks are growing well. Pay no mind to the cobb webs. We haven’t cleaned the brooder building in a long while. I put them in a wire bottomed brooder today. There is also some Games and Red x Browns, as well as a couple turkey poults in with them.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Had to move some chicks out of the building to one of the big outside brooders. Some of the Game chicks had started feather picking so that is why some have blue tails. They aren’t 6 weeks yet so we will watch them like hawks for signs of coccidiosis. I went ahead and moved some Red x Browns...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    The hawks would have a feast if they could pick up cats here. There are dozens of feral cats in my holler. The neighbor feeds them. They are a colony and all intact so they reproduce like rabbits. 😬
  20. KF0002

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Thank you for your feedback. I haven't decided whether I am going to attempt that project, it was just a thought. I was talking to a friend who has tried to get decent Silver Duckwing Leghorns and he said that are hard to find, so that got my wheels turning. However, I may have more than...
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