The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[BlueBaby]

The rooster I said I'd get another pic of today....
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Double the pleasure.

 

[KF0002]

Had the crele project going this year. Gold duckwing male over crele female so males should be single gene Barred gold duckwing.
Hatched several but never noticed any headspots. Maybe something to do with only one gene.
Swapped over to a blue gold duckwing male for blue crele project. Should also be single gene barred gold and blue gold duckwing.
Still no headspots but I've hatched a couple/few with no outer stripes to mention on their backs. I'm betting those are blue crele boys.
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You won't see any headspots on single barred crele birds on a wild type base. The headspots only show up in double barred male chicks. I've read on that a bit after I crossed the Legbar to Leghorn and the single barred crele chicks hatched looking like wild type gold duckwing chicks with no headspots.

That is an awesome hatch! Lucky!

 

[KF0002]

@The Moonshiner when you start producing double barred males, the white headspot and blurred chipmunk markings on the males will be the defining characteristics that make crele on a duckwing base autosexing. The females will look like gold duckwings with sharper more defined chipmunk markings.

 

[KF0002]

The rooster I said I'd get another pic of today....
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I need!

 

[The Moonshiner]

No, that would be a bargain for sure.

Well d@mn the luck it sold before I got a reply. Must of been a line ahead of me.
But ya now you see why I drag sh!t home I don't really need.

 

[BlueBaby]

Well d@mn the luck it sold before I got a reply. Must of been a line ahead of me.
But ya now you see why I drag sh!t home I don't really need.

Lol You got me to look in the Phoenix Marketplace with that, but there was nothing there that interested me.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Lol You got me to look in the Phoenix Marketplace with that, but there was nothing there that interested me.

I've gotten 3 incubators off there .
I love marketplace and use it all the time.
Problem is besides the obvious that you have to people is I'm pretty far out from most things so it's more then a hop, skip and jump for me to go get most things.

 

[The Moonshiner]

@The Moonshiner when you start producing double barred males, the white headspot and blurred chipmunk markings on the males will be the defining characteristics that make crele on a duckwing base autosexing. The females will look like gold duckwings with sharper more defined chipmunk markings.

Ya I've raised legbars before. Done some stuff with the leghorns before too. Once upon a time I had a lavender crele project going.
I guess I mentioned the no headspot because my son wasn't happy about that. He's getting more involved now days.
He's starting to understand the whole projects aspect a lot more. He's come a long ways since the helicopter incident...
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-moonshiners-leghorns.1257688/post-25696607

 

[Chookwagn]

The rooster I said I'd get another pic of today....
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Love that silver colour!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Gorgeous roosters!