Yes@Amer so recessive white in chickens and recessive white in turkeys is represented by the same letters (cc). Very cool. I’m learning.
Anything that isn’t squirrel tailed would have better type in my opinion. I fit with squirrel tails in Marans for many years and it was so exhausting and frustrating to deal with. A lower tail in one bird balances out the higher tail of the bird you may be mating it to. Having a few birds around with lower set tails is very handy in correcting tails that are too high. I was always taught you must balance out flaws of one bird with the other bird you are mating them to. While the White Legbar isn’t perfect in type, neither is the Red Leghorn. And I just didn’t want to produce too many high tailed birds from that mating. I will have enough hopefully to cull through and get at least a few decent birds to use from the Red x Browns.
Which ones?
The light gold leghorns, are they a mix or a certain type? (From the first post)
Those are hatchery light brown leghorns if you are talking about the birds I posted. I can’t convince my husband I need better quality brown leghorns so I am stuck working with the birds we have for now. We have a ton of chickens and certainly don’t need to add to them much. lol
I think they’re meaning Moonys very first post of the thread. They are new to the site.
Ooooh. Got it. lol
Those are The Moonshiner’s Buff Leghorns. Very beautiful variety of Leghorn.
