Brown Leghorns: Pics, Info, and Resources

[The Moonshiner]

I actually don't know...ask me again Friday.

I have been out of town... traveling back tomorrow, but will not get there until Friday morning.

I didn't have the most impressive sitter. .....so.... that everything is alive when I return.....

I too have been wondering about them, it will be fun to see them when I get home.

I hatched a couple a few years ago that sound like what you discribed. They ended up with a lot of the red from the brown pattern.
Hens were white with red breast and roosters had alot on hackles and saddle. It took awhile before it came in though.

Now im hatching some from an isabel rooster over cuckoo hens. In theory they should be black pullets and single cuckoo cockerels. Most are born black with some brown on head. When they feather out theres a lot of the brown pattern showing through. Theyre still pretty young so theyll be interesting to see when they get their adult plumage.
That duckwing isnt as easy to cover as I would think.

 

[The Moonshiner]

 

[IdyllwildAcres]

Ok here is Teriyaki, Teri...
12 weeks old. Still a pullet?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Y

Ok here is Teriyaki, Teri...
12 weeks old. Still a pullet? View attachment 1059000

Yes pullet

 

[Alaskan]

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I really like that cuckoo with the brown bleeding through..pretty

 

[The Moonshiner]

Ive hatched some silver duckwing crossed with cuckoo too.
Doesnt seem like anything bleeds through on the pullets but does with the cockerels.
(They were the chicks i posted that were black with the white on their heads and eye liner showing)
Cockerels look like cuckoos but with some splotches of extra white.

 

[Alaskan]

Sex linked is always nice.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Ya they are.
Actually crossing them to make cuckoo gold duckwing and cuckoo silver duckwing. The gold should be autosexing like legbars. We'll see about the silvers.
Be honest though sex links dont excite me like they used to. Got spoiled with the leghorns. You know how they are you can sex them by a few weeks old anyways.

 

[Alaskan]

Very true. I really like the stripes on the light brown.

I find the dark brown harder to tell thought.

 

[SueT]

My four brown leghorn pullets are now 14 weeks. Combs are getting red! Could we be within a month of laying? But I read that br. leghorns don't lay as early as whites. Any input on laying age? Will these combs get bigger and floppier before they lay?