The Moonshiner's Leghorn Thread Peanut Gallery

[Amer]

Would I get the same results if I did a red male with the Isabella hens or the silver hens?

1st one, yeah.
Red with silver would give you sexlinks though. Not sure if the red allows it to be sexable from hatch, however. Black tailed red golden males and black tailed red females.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

Another leghorn genetics question.

If I even get a male good enough to keep, what would an Issabella male crossed with a red hen or a silver hen make?

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Neat, so maybe I'll get a red male too, just in case (hopefully not) none of my Isabella males are keepable.

Whites are just dominant right? I'm terrible at these genetics, I just want pretty birds

 

[black_cat]

I was chatting and @EmmaRainboe said that leghorns would be better if they had beards.....this brought me to two questions:
1. Would a beard disgrace the wonderfulness that is the leghorn
and
2. Would it be possible to breed bearded leghorns? I'm assuming the main issue would be comb, as most bearded breeds have pea combs. Slate legs could also be an issue.
They would look like this:

 

[The Moonshiner]

I was chatting and @EmmaRainboe said that leghorns would be better if they had beards.....this brought me to two questions:
1. Would a beard disgrace the wonderfulness that is the leghorn
and
2. Would it be possible to breed bearded leghorns? I'm assuming the main issue would be comb, as most bearded breeds have pea combs. Slate legs could also be an issue.
They would look like this:
View attachment 2483507

 

[black_cat]

There's a reason that the first question was first

 

[black_cat]

I also put mild effort into photoshopping that so an actual response would be nice, even though it's clearly not a popular idea
it's not like I'm set up to actually do this lol

 

[The Moonshiner]

Lol. No worries. I'm just ornery in the mornings.
But no, I don't like the idea.

 

[black_cat]

Lol. No worries. I'm just ornery in the mornings.
But no, I don't like the idea.

Would it in theory be possible even though it would be a bit embarrassing for the leghorns?

 

[Miami Leghorn]

I was chatting and @EmmaRainboe said that leghorns would be better if they had beards.....this brought me to two questions:
1. Would a beard disgrace the wonderfulness that is the leghorn
and
2. Would it be possible to breed bearded leghorns? I'm assuming the main issue would be comb, as most bearded breeds have pea combs. Slate legs could also be an issue.
They would look like this:
View attachment 2483507