The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[KF0002]

Snapped a pic of the oldest group of chicks this morning. Even through all of the storms we have had the past few days, they are doing perfect.

 

[NagemTX]

All the silver Ameraucana I hatched I'm selling. If there is wheaten in there I can't add to my program. Also I just culled my 3rd cross beak. Most are behind on growth as well. I'll just have to order some more from GypsyHen this time.

 

[The Moonshiner]

All the silver Ameraucana I hatched I'm selling. If there is wheaten in there I can't add to my program. Also I just culled my 3rd cross beak. Most are behind on growth as well. I'll just have to order some more from GypsyHen this time.

That sucks..

 

[NagemTX]

So as I read in the same thread that Golden Duckwing overseas isn't necessarily silver/gold duckwing according to nicalandia, but instead are techinically a gold duckwing with the cream gene that is found in Cream Legbars.

This is what @nicalandia posted regarding the creation of Golden Leghorns:

"First what is going on with the European true breeding golden duckwings!

These birds are your basic light brown leghorns(e+/e+ s+/s+ co+/co+ mh+/mh+) but with autosomal recessive cream gene(ig/ig) I am not going to go in the the history on how cream ig/ig was introduced in to light brown leghorns but I would like to point out that Professor Punnett received blue egg laying crested Chilean hens from botanist Clarence Elliott in 1929. One of these hens led to Professor Punnett’s monumental discovery of the recessive cream color in poultry in 1931.

So what you need to introduce in your light brown leghorns is the cream gene from a donor with a very similar type to leghorns(just can't find them here in the USA), lucky for you the Cream Legbars have made their way to the USA, now bee in the look out for quality stock as some "cream Legbars" lines have been badly bred and even outcrossed."

So my Crele Leghorn project could double up as a Golden Leghorn aka Cream (Gold) Duckwing project. If I hatch any chicks from the Legbar rooster over the Brown Leghorn hen that is. Can't count those before they hatch, of course.

So I got golden duckwing Phoenix from Cackle that breed true and when I posted the color difference between silver duckwing Phoenix and golden duckwing Phoenix the conclusion was the cream gene. You can tell the silvers and Golds apart as chicks because of it.

 

[NagemTX]

I am so sorry! I have a friend who culled down to one tom of a particular variety he has and that tom just up and died. Tragic but that will get you every single time.

I had an EE rooster that was golden blue duckwing. Had him tested for the blue egg gene and he was O/o. Had great plans and a coon ate those plans and sent me in to chicken depression.

 

[NagemTX]

Or chain it to my truck. They both have trailer hitches. Surely it wouldn't drag an f150

Famous last words?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Famous last words?

Dang, you had a lot of catching up to do

 

[NagemTX]

Dang, you had a lot of catching up to do

I'm on 1182 right now.

 

[NagemTX]

I may try that when I get desperate enough to use it as a hatcher again. I prefer my two Genesis. At least chicks don’t run off the ledge to the floor in those like kamikaze pilots. I have many gripes about the NR 360.

1. No handles and hard to get lid on right.
2. No lip or ledge to keep chicks inside the incubator when taking off the top.
3. Chicks get legs hung in grate and is poorly designed.
4. The thing is a nightmare to clean after hatches.

That’s all my sleep starved mind can think of right now.

Don’t get me wrong, it will hatch chicks but I have to gripe about it long enough so I can convince my husband I need a MaticoopX 30. Right @The Moonshiner ?? lol

MaticoopX 30 is a good hatcher. I still line it with shelf liner. Washing is kinda a problem but not as bad others.

Still want a cabinet incubator and hatcher.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Caught up sort of lol