Breeding Buff Leghorns

[gallorojo]

Just wanted to say all my chicks are still clear pure buff. I'm fortunate to have that happen, I guess. All with yellow legs also. I also lost one of my best males, different breed, due to heat last week.

It was, and is, really bad here in southern PA, hard on all my animals!! Very frustrating and sad to have happen!!!

 

[danhonour]

Not to keen on all the driving and travel expense of showing,plus it is a lot of work conditioning,taming.coop training,washing,etc..I do not seem to hatch early enough to get the growth and maturity for the fall shows.Just do not attend or show very often.Have to take time off from work also.I sent a trio of Buff Leghorns out to Ohio in 1986 and they did well.Sent a string of 12 or 14 to York Pa.around that same time.Nowdays I show sometimes at Sprimgfield Ma.,Cobelskill NY or Sussex NJ

 

[WyandotteTX]

Havent seen you on here in a while Dan, or maybe I havent been on here that much....
Hope all is well with you and yours. I will take some pics of my Buff Wyandottes and the few RC Black Minorcas soon and post them for everyone to see. From what I can tell I have a male and a female of the Minorcas.....hope so.

 

[WyandotteTX]

Dan, I agree with you about the showing etc. I love chickens and going to shows, just not that interested in the time, money investment. Maybe someday when I am independently wealthy(which will be never).

 

[silkieluver_07]

Heres a couple pictures I snapped. I have the broodiest line of buff leghorns I swear! 7 out of 9 are broody, three hens are mothers now with four more on the nests.

This is my oldest junevile growing out. I think she is looking pretty good.

 

[danhonour]

How are these broody hens?Steady setters?Good mothers? Are you brooding with hens? I have heard if you keep the chicks with the hen for more than 4 weeks they become more wild than pheasants.Not only Leghorns but all breeds? I am asking for thoughts on this as I have always artifically incubated and brooded. Dan

 

[ArieBLB]

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Hi Dan, the chicks are more wild as when you have them unther a warmheather. But I think when you hold the chicks more in your hands and the broody too, they will be quit and not so wild.
The chicks take the caracter of the broody and when she is nervous the chicks will be too nervous.


Regards, Arie
Here some new pictures of my Pure Bred Buff Leghorn Bantams

The male is from 2009 and the female is from 2010

 

[Chick Charm]

Arie, those are some good looking chickens. Great Job!

 

[ArieBLB]

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Thanks my friend.

 

[silkieluver_07]

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The broodies are great, I tried breaking them of broodiness and they wouldn't have it. When I brood the leghorn chicks, they are still wild and crazy, I havent really seen a difference in temperment in broody vs. me raising them.