Breeding Buff Leghorns

[cochinman2005]

These are pure Buff.

 

[ArieBLB]

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Tom. Do you have some pictures of the chicks that came out that junction with the white ones.
Between my little chicks is one very light chick that seems to be champain colour.

Arie

 

[cochinman2005]

Arie,
I haven't done a Buff X White Leghorn Cross. I did a Buff Plymouth Rock x White Plymouth Rock cross. I can take pics of those if you'd like. They are pretty interesting looking. I have just the three. The weather took a turn for the worse after I collected those eggs and the girls decided to stop laying and molt. So now I am waiting for them to finish up with that and kick back into laying.

Tom

 

[ArieBLB]

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Yes Tom, I like to see pictures of your chicks of that Cross between the Buff x White Plymouth Rock. I knew that you don't have crossed the Leghorns.
I am curious if they have the same colour as my first cross between Buff x White. I have done it 2 times, the first time I used a Buff Male and a white hen and the second time I used a White male and a Buff Female. The chicks of the first cross with the white Leghorn bantams where all different in colour. Some of them where Partridge pattern, SilverPartridge pattern, Champain colour and some where Red /Black. I went further with the hens with the most Buff colour x Buff male.
Also the legg colour was in different colours Yellow, Green, and some looks Blue.

The second time (years later with other animals) I crossed the White Leghorn male x Buff Leghorn female and they where all Champain and yellow legged.
The F2 etc. you can see on the pictures I have placed here in this topic.

Arie

 

[Birch Run Farm]

Some new pics, with sun this time. Snow is starting to melt here.

 

[jake mashburn]

nice pictures ,I can see some plymoth rock in theese birds as I have some from the same bloodline. Keith Bjelland

 

[ArieBLB]

I was thinking about the same thing as you do Keith.
I see also some Plymouth Rock in these birds.
Where do they come from?
Are these comming of Dan?

Arie

 

[Birch Run Farm]

They are from Dan. What are the rock characteristics you are seeing? I have a partridge rock and she has a completely different body shape and a short tail.

 

[danhonour]

Keith,we both have some of Fred Zillichs' bloodline and yes a few years back ]some Buff Rock was used sparingly for new blood and size by Fred.Freds stock is a very high percentage Leghorn blood,you have to look hard for some minor defects left from the dash of Rock blood,like shorter main tails,shorter sickles,slight red in earlobes,slight fluffiness, more broodiness,or slight tint of eggs.On the plus side there is back width,good breasts,frames,sturdy legs,stature and size.

I prefer long tails,lesser sickles and saddles and the only way to keep that trait is to let my bloodline concentrate or dominate the blood percentages.Keeping my main male line,lineage unbroken is one way I like to do it.Good breeders have to work in new blood from time to time,and in my nearly 40 years with Buff Leghorns I have done so a 1/2 dozen times or more.Most breeders do outcrosses,and if done right with persistence, it is beneficial.Sometimes a bloodline will work well,other times not.I look at it as a way of getting a wider gene pool,reducing inbreeding depression,and adding traits I lack or want strengthened.What it boils down to is our selections for the breeding pen and not narrowing (bottlenecking) to close by keeping too few males. Dan Honour

 

[Birch Run Farm]

I put seven pullet eggs into the incubator tonight. Dan, they are from the pepper tail pullet.