The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[Miami Leghorn]

Jeez those colors...

 

[Miami Leghorn]

 

[Miami Leghorn]

@The Moonshiner
My good sir I have a question for you.
If you would to start a project of Mille Fleur Leghorns, if you were starting from scratch; how would you go about it, how would you start?
What stock would you start working with?
I read somewhere where one can start with Swedish Flower Hens and Brown Leghorns... what say you?
What would the Moonshiner do?

 

[Amer]

@The Moonshiner
My good sir I have a question for you.
If you would to start a project of Mille Fleur Leghorns, if you were starting from scratch; how would you go about it, how would you start?
What stock would you start working with?
I read somewhere where one can start with Swedish Flower Hens and Brown Leghorns... what say you?
What would the Moonshiner do?

I am also curious. I would use “red” Anconas and brown Leghorns... except they don’t have red Anconas in the US.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I hate the idea of using a different breed but thats just me.
You can use wheaten or wild type for MF and then you need columbian and mottling.
If you can access them I'd use buffs and 55 flowery hens. 55s are leghorns and are wildtype with mottling and barring. All you would need is to loose the barring and thats easy enough.
Buffs are wheaten, columbian and black tail. Youd just have to lose the black tail.
Of course you'd have to double up Columbian and mottling then figure out if you want wheaten or wildtype of just let those stay mixed and matched.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I'm working on trying to split into the standard MF and then a version with mahogany so they would be red MF like a speckled sussex.
Also got a couple other ideas. Started a little on a version with dominate white involved so they would loose all black and be a mottled white tailed buff. Think I'll end up with a red version as well.
Also gonna try to hatch a few chicks late season by crossing in a silver duckwing so one day I can get a silver MF. Basically a MF with all the gold/buff/red removed so it kinda look like a spangled.
So many ideas and so little time and resources.

 

[Amer]

I hate the idea of using a different breed but thats just me.
You can use wheaten or wild type for MF and then you need columbian and mottling.
If you can access them I'd use buffs and 55 flowery hens. 55s are leghorns and are wildtype with mottling and barring. All you would need is to loose the barring and thats easy enough.
Buffs are wheaten, columbian and black tail. Youd just have to lose the black tail.
Of course you'd have to double up Columbian and mottling then figure out if you want wheaten or wildtype of just let those stay mixed and matched.

I mean, technically Anconas are black Leghorns with mottling because they actually have the exact same description but with slightly different words.
But I guess red Anconas don’t help because they don’t exist here.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

If you can access them I'd use buffs and 55 flowery hens. 55s are leghorns and are wildtype with mottling and barring. All you would need is to loose the barring and thats easy enough

Aren't the Swedish flower hens a little bit larger than the 55 flowery?The flowery seem small.

 

[The Moonshiner]

IDK ive never had SFHs. My 55s are same size as most of my other leghorns.
All my leghorns are the same size pretty much but over the years ive noticed that most Blacks are a bit smaller and exchequer all seem small and they have all laid small eggs.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

I think the Swedish has two varieties; Crested and non-Crested, so you'll have to contend with that.