Leghorn X Black Tailed Japanese Bantam??

ChaddiX

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Mar 28, 2011
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Hello Everyone! I was hoping you would help me identify the mix for one of my girls. I was told she's a Black Tailed Japanese Bantam X Leghorn.
BUT I don't understand where her blue ears and blue legs come from?
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-She lays a small med/light brown egg everyday
-She makes this sound like a low, warbled, honking noise - almost like a squeaky toy when you squeeze it very slowly and barely blows air
Thank you all in advance for your input. Here's "La Japonessa"... (all my bought chickens have Spanish names
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Maybe one of the parents isn't a full leghorn or full black-tailed japanese bantam. I want her!! She's the most beautiful hen I've ever seen!!
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Thanks everyone for your input! She's even prettier in real life, when she's not eating (beak full of crumbles & oatmeal:lol:). She's the lowest one on the pecking order and tinier than my Sizzles, so she gets mounted a lot by my SL Bearded Polish Roo - gonna incubate those eggs when I get back to my flock! She is the sweetest thing ever and never bothers anyone. Just honking like a goose, laying an egg everyday.

I understood that blue and green eggs from EEs is a dominant trait - La Japonesa's eggs are brown.
I thought maybe Silkie because of the blue ears and legs, but even F1 (x Silkies) have some feathering on their legs, no?

The world may never know...
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The Silkie may have been a hatchery bird...you never know when you get a hatchery bird. The Silkie may have had poor or no leg feathering.
 
Probably a long shot, but it looks a lot like my splash rosecomb rooster/leghorn female crosses. They are mostly white, with blue legs and bluish faces,some more than others.
 
Nice! Thanks for the insight guys! I only have two roosters, SL Bearded Polish and White Silkie. I wonder... if I hatch her eggs from either one of those roos, will the daughter hens still have her laying abilities? I guess it'll be time for me to post another thread on this subject: How many generations down the line will a certain trait stick or disappear? i.e. Egg laying crossing to a Rooster Silkie or a Polish Roo.

I know if I cross her with my Silkie, the F1 will have regular feathering, unless she herself is an F1 Silkie cross... only one way to find out. ENTER INCUBATOR!
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