Post Pics of your Leghorns

[The Moonshiner]

Exchequer pullet

 

[summerb123]

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[The Moonshiner]

Quality production girls you have there! Are they laying for you?
A couple of years back I hatched out a bunch of project Leghorn colors... and yep, they were all over the place. Several of the eggs were just off white, and most were a bit smaller than they should be. It is difficult to breed the perfect Leghorn.

Just posted one of our exchequers. They have been the ones we"ve had trouble with egg size but yellow legs have been their biggest issue. By far the worst for it. Out of the first chicks we got from a couple of sources probably 80% to 90% were white legs.
It is hard to breed even close to perfect in anything outside of whites and browns. Hardest breed ive worked with.
Leghorns are super well known but just not very popular so limited on gene pool for any of color.

 

[Alaskan]

My new buff leghorn bantam pullets ^__^

That is rocking! Harder to get interesting colors in the bantam size. Where did you get them from, and how well do they lay?

 

[Alaskan]

Just posted one of our exchequers. They have been the ones we"ve had trouble with egg size but yellow legs have been their biggest issue. By far the worst for it. Out of the first chicks we got from a couple of sources probably 80% to 90% were white legs.
It is hard to breed even close to perfect in anything outside of whites and browns. Hardest breed ive worked with.
Leghorns are super well known but just not very popular so limited on gene pool for any of color.

That exchequer you posted is nice. Good yellow legs too.

My dark brown are pretty good.......except for their legs...NOT bright yellow.

 

[The Moonshiner]

That exchequer you posted is nice. Good yellow legs too.

My dark brown are pretty good.......except for their legs...NOT bright yellow.

My dark brown is pretty decent on leg color

 

[The Moonshiner]

Some really young black pullets from late summer hatch

 

[summerb123]

I love your birds @The Moonshiner !!

 

[Alaskan]

X2 on the Great birds!

I wish I had some better photos of my dark browns...


Here is one pullet from this summer.

 

[Alaskan]

Huh...in that photo her legs look good.