Leghorn x Ameraucana

[Eric R]

If I breed an ameraucana rooster with a white leghorn hen what will the resulting chickens look like? I thought they get the body type from one and color from the other. Something like that.

 

[Amer]

Pictures of the father? "Ameraucana" can be a very vague term.
Chickens get half their genes from each parent, not the body type from one and color from another. Which makes sense because human inheritance doesn't work like that.

 

[Amer]

White Leghorns are Dominant White though so the offspring would be predominately paint or white.

 

[TexasBlues]

Whiting true blues and Prairie Bluebells have a similar background foundation of leghorn x ameracauna.

 

[Eric R]

I have 1 hen that I believe is an ameraucana x leghorn because she looks just like a leghorn but with just a few small black spots. But the awesome thing is that she lays just like a leghorn. Big eggs and very often except they're blue! I figured this is way better than an ameraucana since they tend not to lay as much and stop laying during high tenos or in the winter. Not this girl though. Just like a leghorn she keeps on laying.

 

[Eric R]

I have 1 hen that I believe is an ameraucana x leghorn because she looks just like a leghorn but with just a few small black spots. But the awesome thing is that she lays just like a leghorn. Big eggs and very often except they're blue! I figured this is way better than an ameraucana since they tend not to lay as much and stop laying during high tenos or in the winter. Not this girl though. Just like a leghorn she keeps on laying.

But I'm thinking if the body type is more like an ameraucana then they'll also lay mar like ameraucanas so I'm trying to figure out the correct cross to duplicate the results I have with my blue egg laying leghorn.

 

[Amer]

But I'm thinking if the body type is more like an ameraucana then they'll also lay mar like ameraucanas so I'm trying to figure out the correct cross to duplicate the results I have with my blue egg laying leghorn.

The light body type is more of an indication of feed conversion than laying ability...
My Welsummers are built more heavily than Leghorns but they sure lay like crazy.
The body type would be intermediate between the patents.

 

[Eric R]

The light body type is more of an indication of feed conversion than laying ability...
My Welsummers are built more heavily than Leghorns but they sure lay like crazy.
The body type would be intermediate between the patents.

Yeah I just figured the leghorn has very dominant genes in this case since she looks exactly like a leghorn except for the small specs. She even hangs around with my other 2 leghorns so I sometimes have to do a double take to find her. She's the one on the right.