Barred Leghorn *pic*

[flyingmonkeypoop]

They are in the american bantam standard, you can get a new 2007 edition for about $30 on their site.
I saw the barred leghorns listed with all the production type breeds in their catalog this spring, maybe they stopped selling them.

 

[silkiechicken]

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Cali grey's is what I was thinking. When I first got one way back when, I thought it was a really funky looking barred rock... and I was told it was one... well the started to lay and lay white eggs it did...

 

[Dr Bjorn Netland]

Barred leghorn bantams (SC) are accepted by both APA and ABA. Large fowl are not yet accepted in the US though they are in Europe. I have shown them several times. The good barring is difficult to combine with the desired feather quality (especially width of feather), so the point of departure has to be a cock bird with superior barring all the way down and a black hen that has no brown in her background (difficult if almost impossible to find, alas). From there on, a very selective line breeding should be practiced. In order to have some genetic spread, it is best to start with 3 totally unrelated pairs...