Anti White Leghorn Bias?

[chickened]

He actually looks like a white Leghorn crossed with a RIR. First generation crosses with WL are usually mostly white as white is really a pigment blocker and not really a color so it usually dominates.

 

[ClareScifi]

White Leghorn with RIR was my very first guess, but some folks early on said he doesn't look like he has any RIR to him.

This chart makes the earlobe appear to be beneath the white ear muff, and red in color on my boy.


http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...NkLT7CaGuKiiQKL94WFBA&ved=0CCgQ9QEwAg&dur=223

Also, I just read in an article on ornamental breeds that Ameraucanas have ear muffs, not ear tufts, so I'm thoroughly confused.

 

[ClareScifi]

Anyone have some photos of white leghorn/RIR crosses? I'd love to see them.

 

[chickened]

You are right in the close up his lobes are red and the white is his ear fuzz. That would most likely rule out any white leghorn they usually carry the white lobe over in first generation crosses. Could be a white rock and RIR (sexlink?). He could be a red sexlink he appears to have a faint barring shadow in his neck hackles.

 

[farmerChef]

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Ameraucanas have muffs/beard, Araucanas have tuffs (and are tailess).

The rooster (ancona) in the middle has white earlobes, the barred cochin hen on the right has red earlobes.

 

[farmerChef]

Here is a better picture of a (large) white earlobe on a Minorca

 

[Ducks and Banny hens]

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That breed is about as good as the white earlobe gets. It's massive in Minorcas.

 

[DMRippy]

This is my Good Guy. Do you think he looks half white leghorn/half EE?

He is barred too! Like my guy! Well my guy has pea comb and beard and muffs. AND he does not have quite as much red red but he is young.

 

[DMRippy]

Really?

What exactly is a Red Sex Link?

A red sexlink can come from like a RIR roo over a White rock. He is not a sexlink because of the barring. Your leghorn was probably a California white because he has the barring.

 

[ClareScifi]

Very interesting! How can you tell that Good Guy has barring?! I would never have guessed that.

So fun to find out white earlobes really do exist, and see them. None of my chicks have white earlobes, so I'm wondering if they are not white leghorn mix.

Do white rocks tend to lay well in winter in cold climes? My normal barred rocks stop in November and don't start until March. The fellow who said his roo was a leghorn says they lay in the winter for him, and he's in a colder area than I am?

Could he be a 2d generation white leghorn, I wonder?

So do all chickens, roos and hens, have the white ear fuzz type stuff that I thought was an earmuff? Is the white/cream to the "ear fuzz" a breed clue? My barred rocks don't seem to have it?