breeding 55 Flowery Leghorns

[cjwaldon]

CJ, Your chickens are close to mature now, right? What are their temperaments and personalities like? GFF gave me a 20% coupon to use within 30 days and I'm trying to decide if I should order some more and hopefully get some silvers.

They are curious yet aloof. They don't seem to be afraid, and don't startle as easily as a typical leghorn. They are underfoot except when you are trying to pet one or catch one. I have to keep shooing them away from the camera to get pictures.

 

[ruriksson]

They are curious yet aloof. They don't seem to be afraid, and don't startle as easily as a typical leghorn. They are underfoot except when you are trying to pet one or catch one. I have to keep shooing them away from the camera to get pictures.

Thanks, that doesn't sound too bad. How are they in regard to noise? Are the hens "chatty"? Is there a lot of squawking for no reason?

I was reading one of the standards and it said the 55 is supposed to be colored like a Cream Legbar just mottled. I assume this means they are ig/ig. I think I'm going to cross my Legbars for a larger blue egg and then stop keeping Legbars. The hens go around muttering and squawking as if they're really cranky and they scream when they lay and the other Legbar hens join in. My other hens are Bieles, Orpingtons, Maraduna, Marans and Cochins, so they're all very quiet out and about and while laying.

 

[cjwaldon]

What have I got here? males? females? gold? silver?

 

[minihorse927]

What have I got here? males? females? gold? silver?

I'm going with gold male left. That right one looks like a silver male

 

[cjwaldon]

I'm going with gold male left. That right one looks like a silver male

That's what I'm thinking, too. Two males, one gold, one silver.

 

[chicken2525]

Thats a gold male and silver female.

 

[minihorse927]

a silver female and a gold female side by side

 

[cjwaldon]

What have I got here? males? females? gold? silver?

IT'S A BOY!! And . . . it's a boy. Two boys, one gold, one silver. They were rehomed today.

 

[ruriksson]

Is the discussion of "silver" v. "gold" a discussion of the S gene or the Ig gene? It was my understanding that all the 55s are SS, S-. Hence the males come out nearly all white. If they were not S but rather s+, the males should only be double barred, correct? In Silverudd's paper he has descriptions of silver 55s as SSBBmomo for the sex linked genes and for gold 55s it's s+s+BBmomo.

Is the difference in what we are calling silver and gold here the distinction between Ig+ and ig/ig?

Given that all of CJ's adults are "gold" but he has "silver" offspring, some males and females in the flock are Ig+/ig.

Just wondering. I plan to cross my Cream Legbars with them to get a large blue egg.

 

[chicken2525]

This is not an issue of ig or Ig+.

Silver 55 male- B/B, S/S, k+/k+, e+/e+, mo/mo
Silver 55 female- B/-, S/-, k+/-, e+/e+, mo/mo
Gold 55 male- B/B, s+/s+, k+/k+, e+/e+, mo/mo
Gold 55 female- B/-, s+/-, k+/-, e+/e+, mo/mo

The first 3 in each being Z chromosome and the second 2 being autosomal.