Breeding Buff Leghorns

[jake mashburn]

I am building a new pen for the young ones so they can go out side very soon. Keith

 

[jake mashburn]

 

[jake mashburn]

 

[jake mashburn]

 

[ArieBLB]

Hello Keith,

That are very nice pictures of your Buff Leghorns.
I like them very much. They have a very good even colour.
You are a lucky man with such nice Buff Leghorns.
I am a little jealous.

I hope you have this year very much good little chicks.
Look at their combs and how they carries their wings.
Sometimes it happens that they have cross wings. It is difficult to rid of that.

Very nice Leghorns

Arie

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Ha Keith it looks like you got the picture posting down! Nice birds for sure! So you will take the red X buff crosses back to a buff color?

 

[jake mashburn]

yes I will take the females from this cross to a buff male and the males from this cross to my red female then take the offspring and mate them to gether from both crosses but it will just take time . Keith

 

[ArieBLB]

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Hello Tom,
I think that you have a good chanche to improve your Buffs with this project.
I have don it with my Buff Leghorn Bantams. look at my pictures below wath the colour did.

Arie

The start of my project White male x Buff female
These were the parents. At the time I make this mating there where no good Buff males.

Here is a picture of the F1 from a White American type Leghorn Bantam male x Dutch type Buff Leghorn bantam female.

Here a picture of the F2 from Pure Buff Leghorn Bantam male x the F1 hens (White American type Leghorn Bantam male x Dutch type Buff Leghorn Bantam female)

And here the F3 Pure American type Buff Leghorn Bantam male x the F2 hens

And the F4

 

[cochinman2005]

2010 Hatch (11 days old)

2010 Hatch (4 days old) The chick on the right in front has a blue mark on his head because it's out of pen 2. In a couple weeks I'll wing band them, but I use permanent markers to ID pen #'s at hatch.

 

[ArieBLB]

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Tom, are the chicks all pure Buff or also F1 Buff x White