The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[Sapphire Sebright]

Moved several birds around today. Leghorn after leghorn after leghorn. Not a scratch. Moved the two Chocolate Orpington hens and this.....

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Ya Orpingtons are gentle and calm and leghorns are crazy skittish and flighty.

Brooding already, are they, or are these hens just particularly partial to violence as a communication technique?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Not broody. Haven't even started laying yet.
Guessing they just don't like being touched.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Here's the pens I've got set up...

Gold duckwing Rooster over 2 Chocolate Orp hens
3 blue roosters over 12 blue hens
SF blue barred silver duckwing Rooster over barred silver duckwing hen
SF blue barred silver duckwing Rooster over 6 silver duckwing hens
Barred silver duckwing Rooster over 2 blue silver duckwing & 1 splash silver duckwing hen
Blue barred Rooster over 2 barred hens
Blue barred Rooster over 5 black hens
2 lavender silver duckwing Roosters over 4 lavender duckwing hens.

 

[Chookwagn]

Some of my Cuckoo Leghorn teenage group (next seasons breeders)

These boys are brothers (probably from different mothers)

Whiteface looks weird without any tail feathers... hopefully he grows some during winter.

 

[The Moonshiner]

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Some of my Cuckoo Leghorn teenage group (next seasons breeders)

These boys are brothers (probably from different mothers)

Whiteface looks weird without any tail feathers... hopefully he grows some during winter.

That dude is cool as hell looking.

 

[troyer]

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Some of my Cuckoo Leghorn teenage group (next seasons breeders)

Looks like barred and laced trying to play together.

 

[Chookwagn]

That dude is cool as hell looking.

I think so

to me (I'm thick) it looks like silver and Cuckoo playing together.... what gene brings in the white feather shaft look?

 

[WallyG74]

3 blue roosters over 12 blue hens

These are all in one pen? 3 roosters together?

 

[WallyG74]

@The Moonshiner

 

[The Moonshiner]

These are all in one pen? 3 roosters together?

Yes