Duckwing Leghorns

[Miami Leghorn]

Trust the plan...

 

[Miami Leghorn]

This is one of my Silver Leghorn roosters I may use for my project; not too happy about his comb though. His brother I will post later as his is better formed.
I started incubating eggs early this year with not any luck a few made it to hatch day but never pipped... so I'm going to wait till Midsummer and see where I'm at and try again.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

Six more Brown Leghorn pullets to go with my Silver Roosters.
These are a bit darker so far.

 

[Cracker Jack Farms]

So I'm new to this forum, but dying of curiosity to find out where you're at with these guys??

 

[Miami Leghorn]

So I'm new to this forum, but dying of curiosity to find out where you're at with these guys??

Thank you for asking. The breedings I've made so far haven't produced viable eggs. I've stopped the project for now,
...alot of stuff going on at home right now and side projects keep me busy. But yes as soon as I have some chicks on the ground I will post some pics here.

 

[Cracker Jack Farms]

Thank you for asking. The breedings I've made so far haven't produced viable eggs. I've stopped the project for now,
...alot of stuff going on at home right now and side projects keep me busy. But yes as soon as I have some chicks on the ground I will post some pics here.

Thanks for the update. Looking forward to pictures!

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

Were you going to introduce the cream gene so you could get true breeding "golden" dupes? Basically the color of cream light brown leghorns. I haven't read through the whole thread, sorry if I missed that.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

Were you going to introduce the cream gene so you could get true breeding "golden" dupes? Basically the color of cream light brown leghorns. I haven't read through the whole thread, sorry if I missed that.

Walk me through this.
Adding the cream gene.

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

Walk me through this.
Adding the cream gene.

Sorry, I said "cream light brown leghorns" but meant cream light brown Dutch Bantam. I discovered some lines of European leghorns actually carry the cream gene from I guess people breeding up Dutch Bantam or something. They were trying to recreate gold legbars using brown leghorns but kept stumbling onto birds that were hiding cream. You could use cream legbars to introduce it if you really wanted. It should be identical to "golden" but breed true. Personally I loathe cream, but that has more to do with the nature of some politics in legbars in particular rather than the color. Cream light brown in Dutch bantams looks nice once it's dialed in and stabilized.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

Sorry, I said "cream light brown leghorns" but meant cream light brown Dutch Bantam. I discovered some lines of European leghorns actually carry the cream gene from I guess people breeding up Dutch Bantam or something. They were trying to recreate gold legbars using brown leghorns but kept stumbling onto birds that were hiding cream. You could use cream legbars to introduce it if you really wanted. It should be identical to "golden" but breed true. Personally I loathe cream, but that has more to do with the nature of some politics in legbars in particular rather than the color. Cream light brown in Dutch bantams looks nice once it's dialed in and stabilized.

Okay I'll basically walk you through what I know about chicken genetics...

I fell in love with Gold Duck wing Leghorns strictly from seeing pictures of breeders from overseas. From research I found they were breeding true most of them were running cockerel lines and pullet lines... I stumbled online into someone here in the states breeding and showing Bantam Gold Duckwing leghorns.. his name is Jacob Bates
. He's out of the Leghorn game and now into ducks heavily. What he said to me basically it's Silver rooster over Brown hen ...simple recipe. The silver would dilute enough to create that gold effect on the brown. Using two pens is something that I read about from a European breeder also a lot of Australians use the two pen program.
Then I started reading about autosomal red and all that jazz.
And I'm thinking geez all I want to do is create a beautiful bird that I have in my mind and that I know exists out there.
I think adding the Legbar in there would just create havoc because I'm all for getting to from point A to point B with the least amount of complications.
There's also that crest that I have to deal with.
I don't know...if you have the energy, sell me the idea of the leg bar.

The fact that I have had zero luck in hatching my first batch of eggs from the Silver over Brown it just seems like more leg work for me to do if I introduce Legbars in there.
I'm all ears...sell it to me.