California Grey = Production Black= Barred Leghorn? I'm confused??

[Ms. Cluckingly]

So I just got back from the feed store and I fell in love.

I only got two though. lol I got a Golden laced Wyandotte and what they called a "california grey". WHAT is a california grey? I can't find anything really about them online, and another thread here said that they were production blacks and then someone said that they weren't production blacks but barred leghorns? I'm so confused. Any advice?

 

[Bantimna]

A California Grey is a cross between a Leghorn x Barred Plymouth Rock. It's suppose to be a great white egg layer.

 

[Ms. Cluckingly]

Thanks so much!!

 

[oldtimeway]

Incorrect!

A California Grey is a true breed unto itself devoloped using leghorns and plymouth rocks about seventy years ago. It waos developed by the Dryden Poultry Experiment Farm of Modesto, Calif. Prof. Dryden was originally a prof of poultry at Ore. State but bought his own poultry farm where he and his son developed top notch white leghorns and the California Grey.

 

[danhonour]

The California Gray(cuckoo colored) is a breed, and when the Gray male is crossed with a White Leghorn hen the f1 are called california white hybrids,I think the chicks might be sexlinked due to barring/cuckoo gene.

 

[Koturnix_AW]

Where can i buy some?

 

[Chicken116]

It seems I have a family link to James Dryden and next year, when I can finally get some chickens...is there anyone who sells direct Dryden lines or are the current California Greys/Grays I've seen at a few hatcheries and farms just ones that they have recreated with the same breeding? I am curious and I'd love to have some great-great grand relative derived chickens!


Thanks if anyone can give info


Cathy