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Oh, they are lovely!! Do you ever sell any eggs?

You mentioned on the thread several times that you would like blue. I've not been breeding to the SOP, but I have LOTS of blue/lemon blue/blue wheaton/blue tailed patterned buffs, many with good leg color. In my pics, top right is a splash wheaton, bottom right - I don't even know if there's a color for the pattern, but I get birds who are red to gold to buff in front and blue behind - you can see her blue rump. If you enlarge the bottom picture, you can see the blue pullet I was trying to get a picture of, diving under the rooster (she has slate legs, but her mother has yellow ones - she's otherwise lovely).

Now, I know they're just mutts, but any project has to start with mutts. If you'd like, I'll get you some good pictures of birds I'd like to set up in pens (because I've been wanting to seriously work with them for YEARS, but life keeps happening and preventing me from hatching out more than just what I need to keep them going) and I'll happily pack a box full of specifically-bred eggs for you for just the shipping - I'd be that glad to know someone is working on blue and blue patterned Leghorns!
You are right, the breed needs more fans!
 
lazy gardener said:
R.O. That penciled gal with the black head in pic #3
is STUNNING.
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Thank you! She has dark legs and the faintest hint of cheek tufts so I'm eagerly waiting to see what color egg she lays. I had juuust enough EE blood from the first generation that they'll occasionally throw me a green egg layer. When I got all these wild colors in the first generation, I was told that dominant white could hide pretty much anything under it and it sure seemed to hide a rainbow!

I know they're just mutts, but I'm tickled with them. If I ever, ever EVER get settled, I'd like to do one project where I get some pure Leghorns of good type and see if I can get some of my funky colors in a good Leghorn bird, and another where I can just hatch out enough and select hard enough for the traits I love in my little flock to get a landrace going.
 
RiverOtter said:
Oh, they are lovely!! Do you ever sell any eggs?

You mentioned on the thread several times that you would like blue. I've not been breeding to the SOP, but I have LOTS of blue/lemon blue/blue wheaton/blue tailed patterned buffs, many with good leg color. In my pics, top right is a splash wheaton, bottom right - I don't even know if there's a color for the pattern, but I get birds who are red to gold to buff in front and blue behind - you can see her blue rump. If you enlarge the bottom picture, you can see the blue pullet I was trying to get a picture of, diving under the rooster (she has slate legs, but her mother has yellow ones - she's otherwise lovely).

Now, I know they're just mutts, but any project has to start with mutts. If you'd like, I'll get you some good pictures of birds I'd like to set up in pens (because I've been wanting to seriously work with them for YEARS, but life keeps happening and preventing me from hatching out more than just what need to keep them going) and I'll happily pack a box full of specifically-bred eggs for you for just the shipping - I'd be that glad to know someone is working on blue and blue patterned Leghorns!
You are right, the breed needs more fans!
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Thank you.
I'm not NPIP so I've never shipped any eggs. Have sold some locally.
Been thinking about changing some things and build up some of my groups this next year then maybe start selling eggs in 2019.
I'm flattered by the offer. That's really cool of you.
I've been working on blues. So far its just been solid blue but I just put some eggs from a silver rooster over solid blue hen in the incubator. In a few months I'm going to cross cuckoo with the solid hens. Looking to split into blue silver duckwing and use the cuckoo to improve the solid blues type. After I get those sorted out I'll probably split to solid blue and back to barred blue and then split the duckwing to blue silver duckwing and blue gold duckwing.
Eventually I'd like to do blue wheaton.
 
The Moonshiner said:
X3
Just a couple months ago I had my first in hundreds and hundreds of leghorns go broody.
I decided to set up a few breeder pens in my garage to hatch over the winter. I penned the females for 3 weeks and increased the amount of light. After the 3rd week I added the roosters and had the lighting up to 15 hours a day.
I still wanted to give it another week or so to start collecting eggs so wasn't real quick on getting all the eggs out.
I had one start acting seriously broody with 3 eggs. I let her go and she ended up with 6 eggs. She sat for 11 or 12 days but even in the garage temps where getting down to mid 30s and outside temps where headed below 0° and I knew the eggs wouldn't be able to be kept warm enough so I put them in the incubator and hatched 4.
I would still be surprised to hear of leghorns going bloody and hatching chicks. I believe mine that went bloody was because she is a mille fleur leghorn and its the blood of whatever breed was used to introduce the MF pattern that made her go broody. That plus I think it had something to do with the sudden increase of lighting.
When I first got the MF a couple generations back from this hen they all laid creme eggs so there was still a fair amount of another breed in them.
I have had several act broody for a few days if they found a pile of eggs in the same nest. They all gave up on the idea after two or three days though.
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There is no telling to what lengths some "BREEDERS" will go to to create a new strain or variety of chickens or dogs. The Liver Colored Labrador Retriever is a good example. I've been told by reliable source that bloodhounds were crossed over an amber Labrador Retriever and then the pups were inbred to remove the objectionable characteristics except for the liver color.
 
chickengeorgeto said:
There is no telling to what lengths some "BREEDERS" will go to to create a new strain or variety of chickens or dogs. The Liver Colored Labrador Retriever is a good example. I've been told by reliable source that bloodhounds were crossed over an amber Labrador Retriever and then the pups were inbred to remove the objectionable characteristics except for the liver color.
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Since you quoted my post I guess I should ask what was your point or what are you trying to say?
Your dog story has no relevance to me.
 
RiverOtter said:
Thank you! She has dark legs and the faintest hint of cheek tufts so I'm eagerly waiting to see what color egg she lays. I had juuust enough EE blood from the first generation that they'll occasionally throw me a green egg layer. When I got all these wild colors in the first generation, I was told that dominant white could hide pretty much anything under it and it sure seemed to hide a rainbow!

I know they're just mutts, but I'm tickled with them. If I ever, ever EVER get settled, I'd like to do one project where I get some pure Leghorns of good type and see if I can get some of my funky colors in a good Leghorn bird, and another where I can just hatch out enough and select hard enough for the traits I love in my little flock to get a landrace going.
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That's one of my eventual goals. But, on my way to that goal, I'm planning to produce a few generations of sex linked birds: small combs, and multi colored eggs. Unfortunately, My EE roo has thwarted that plan for now. He'll be 4 years old this spring. He's been a good breeder up until this summer, giving good fertility, has produced multiple generations of black sex links with pea or walnut combs, and about 1/2 of them lay a green/aqua/olive colored egg. Since this summer, he goes through the motions with the ladies, but he misses the mark almost 100% of the time. Thankfully, I have a Buck Eye cockerel who will take over flock duties. I hate to cull the EE, but at this point, he's of no use to me, and his clumsiness is tough on the ladies. So, this spring, I'll be setting a batch of green eggs to keep those genetics going, and using the Buck Eye to produce Black and Red sex links. Hopefully, the green egg layers will produce a good roo to eventually replace the Buck Eye, and keep the colored eggs in the mix.
 

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