Leghorn mix thread

[Chikyboy]

This thread is for leghorn mixes.
All my leghorn mixes are descended from my white leghorn hen.
Hens on the left and right are leghorn hen x gold duckwing colored game mix. Leggie is the left, Peggie is the right.

Cockerel closest to the camera is leghorn hen x polish mixed rooster. His name is Oliver Twist.

And these are Leggie and Peggies sons and daughter. They are unnamed. Fathered by the rooster that Leggie and Peggie were pictured with (bantam partridge cochin).

Next year I will hopefully have a ton more, because the leghorn "line" is special to me, because I had the leghorn hen forever.

 

[Gigachad poultry]

This is what happens when you mix a Sussex roo and a Livorno hen, the Livorno is like the Leghorns little cousin. However they produce HUGE white eggs. She is the hen on the very left next to another actual Sussex hen.

 

[Chikyboy]

This is what happens when you mix a Sussex roo and a Livorno hen, the Livorno is like the Leghorns little cousin. However they produce HUGE white eggs. She is the hen on the very left next to another actual Sussex hen.
View attachment 3606090

That looks so cool!

 

[Gigachad poultry]

That looks so cool!

I can't really explain why she had those red areas. It's so random.

 

[Tstraub]

My only leghorn mix is a 21 week old cockerel. He is the only survivor of my first incubation. I believe he is leghorn x ISA Brown. I named him Oster because he was the first chick born in my home made incubator built out of an Oster brand toaster oven.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Estrella. She's 9 or 10 now

 

[Chikyboy]

Estrella. She's 9 or 10 nowView attachment 3606133

9 or 10? Thats and old hen!

 

[JacinLarkwell]

9 or 10? Thats and old hen!

Yep. I still have her aunt and 2 half siblings from the same batch too

 

[Chikyboy]

Yep. I still have her aunt and 2 half siblings from the same batch too

How are you getting your chickens to live so long?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

How are you getting your chickens to live so long?

Luck. Hatchery genetics were also probably a bit better that long ago