Are Danish Leghorns as productive as production leghorns?

[nicalandia]

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you wouldn't.. you would sell out and start over.

I don't belive Nicalandia has that option. . . "Start where you are with what you have" may work.
Mitch

that's Right..!

I have access to,

a)Broiler Sire, Dame lines(Worked with them years ago, but they ate too much and were bad breeders, I wonder now that I know about Intermittent Fasting if I could apply some of that knowledge to them to see if I can get them to a healthy weight to breed them)

b) Discarded(expent) production type white leghorns. the still lay about 1 egg every other day if well taken care of, never go broody on me and are very very tame

c) Discarded(expent) ISA Brown the still lay about 1 egg every other day if well taken care of, never go broody on me and are very very tame

d) Game Fowls. nice temperament, but bad layers..

e) native Araucanas(they look like EE or Ameraucana at best, but lay colored eggs)
I don't know I would like to do something with the leghorns in the future, maybe start a Brown leghorn project(Wildtype leghorn) using wild type Game Fowl mating it to the white leghorn hens.. at some pont I started a blue egg and Dark green egg project but lost my birds and land to a crooked judge

here a few pics


you can see the "nicaragua araucana"

you can also see the ISAs in the Background

a few hatching eggs(F1 leghorns x aruacana)

here is the incubator I built because these hen can't go broody, BUT its a very time consuming ordeal, I rather feed a few broody hens to do the job..

 

[sjarvis00]

Nica,
You need a set upi like we use, I prefer not to have broody's and actually select against it. that really lets me get the numbers out...
Notice the small unit on the left is a 6 tray hatcher that holds 600 eggs, the two inc. each hold 1800.

I do like the cooler made incubator I would not have thought of that..

 

[nicalandia]

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Nice...


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it was a hassle...

I was doing the temperature regulating, what I did was, keep the eggs from getting too cold at night, about 11 p.m I kinda new how the tem was going to be around 4 a.m so I let the eggs get warmer than usual, but at 5 when I was waking up I had to bring the tem back again as it was about 3 degrees colder... I regulated the heat from 5 a.m till 8 a.m, I turned the lights out and leave the incubator all sealed, I knew they were fine, because after 10 am the heat(nicaraguan hot weather) started to rise in my bedroom, from 12 till 5 p.m the eggs were around 97-98 degrees, so when I got home at 5:30 I had to turn the lights on so they could be at 100 degrees even.. multiply that by 21 days and it gets to you...

not only that, then is the taking care of day old chicks to around 2 month old.. then they are free to roam the backyard..

SO... I started using Broodies.. they take care of 10 babies at time untill they are old enough to fend for themself..

 

[danhonour]

I realize some countries can not import or export and are limited to what is at hand to use.The staring point is to determine what type (shape) your breed should have.In Leghorns we have the English,the Dutch and the American.Production Leghorns have not been selected toward any type and would need a lot of refinement in comb,feather and body style.It can be done but will take effort and a number of generations of birds.From the white Leghorn and black breasted red Game,you should be able to re-create Light Brown Leghorns.You will have to raise a large f1 and f2 generation bred together.You might get some other colors like cuckoo,black,silver duckwing,and piles.You can take the piles back to BBRed games.I would not use too much game if they are poor layers.