The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[Chookwagn]

Good looking nonsense!

 

[KF0002]

I hate when they flake out.

Yes! And this is why I keep retreating further and further away from people on my days off.

 

[KF0002]

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I do hate when I want to buy something and they don’t want to give good pictures. Don’t take a picture of a chicken five acres away and some eggs in a dark nest box and tell me they’re great Marans lol. I need proof dang it.

I sent her a million pictures and a million different views of the birds. She knew exactly what they looked like because I take good pictures. You have met me, yes? I show you all chickens, much much chickens I show you. I don’t like being jerked around. I had to take time out of my precious day off (don’t get many of those) to catch the chickens, then she no want the chickens. So I set chickens free. Then a month later she wants the chickens again. I am much too busy for all that. I am so busy and stressed I may very well quack!

 

[KF0002]

Yes, that burns my bacon! Because I have nothing better to do than sit and wait on you to NOT come get the chickens you asked for.

Right, its not like I solicited her to come and get my chickens. No forcing of chickens on anyone here. I didn’t even advertise the birds. We planned on butchering them. Still do. My friend was like hey I gave my friend your name, she is looking for a rooster. Her friend texted me. Then had the audacity to flake after she put me through the hassle of catching them. Then reappeared a month later all like hey I’m ready to buy those roosters now!

 

[KF0002]

That's hard to say. When I crossed the Browns and Silvers I started getting males that had the red on the shoulders. I don't know how those genes work but it wasn't all males maybe a third or fourth of them. Of course nothing showed on the females so I worried about them being carriers that I couldn't identify. I just moved forward without using any of those males. Seemed like it didn't take long to eliminate it.
With the blues and blacks it's been a different story. When I brought blue in I was also mixing gold duckwing and solids. I wanted both projects so I figured I'd sort it out later. I got it separated but then ya I was producing males with red shoulders. That's been more then 5 years ago and I don't use those males but some still pop up to this day. Sometimes I look at those males and think I should mess around with them and see if I can get them to breed true.
It'd be up to you if the reward would be worth the hassle and if there's any other options.

I think I’m gonna do it. A little autosomal red to cull through would be worth putting some size on them I think.

 

[KF0002]

Remember my TWO ultimate RIR female chicks with the best, most amazing chipmunk pattern ever??? They turned out to be cockerels . I didn’t have years in that, though. Maybe 2 generations? Still was a bummer.

I think the chipmunk pattern would be bad. Meaning they have only one copy of mahogany instead of 2. I wouldn't use those birds as breeders anyway.

 

[KF0002]

@WallyG74 do you have pics of the chicks?

 

[WallyG74]

I think the chipmunk pattern would be bad. Meaning they have only one copy of mahogany instead of 2. I wouldn't use those birds as breeders anyway.

Well, I didn’t. I certainly don’t have the slightest grip on genetics. I didn’t want those 2 messing up my autosexing RIRs.

 

[WallyG74]

@WallyG74 do you have pics of the chicks?

Maybe. I’ll have to search.

 

[KF0002]

@WallyG74 I ask because my incomplete black-tailed reds had distinct chipmunk markings as chicks. They looked like little Brown Leghorns but with a slightly more reddish color to the lighter parts of their down. The pure Red Leghorns I bought, they looked like RIR chicks, red with a few markings that are remnants of a wild type down pattern (chipmunk). Test breeding proved that my Red Leghorn rooster has a wild type base (like RIR), instead of the wheaten base they supposedly used to have when Curtis Oakes bred them. I digress. Anyway, if your RIR had very defined chipmunk patterns, they were incompletes like mine, missing a copy of the columbian gene and/or Db?

So to correct my previous statement 2 copies of mahogany doesn't break up the chipmunk color, but 2 copies of columbian and/or Db does. So those chicks may be missing one of those genes, like my incomplete BTRs.