The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[ChicKat]

She's been too busy changing feather coloration and flying around doing acrobatics to bother with that egg laying business. Do y'all have a kitchen scale to weigh it?

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

She's been too busy changing feather coloration and flying around doing acrobatics to bother with that egg laying business. Do y'all have a kitchen scale to weigh it?

No kitchen scale. I was seriously thinking of culling her if she didn’t get her act together.

 

[ChicKat]

It's always a hard call. A hen that doesn't lay is probably not a member to keep in a flock, unless there is real attachment -- even if she really is beautiful.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

It's always a hard call. A hen that doesn't lay is probably not a member to keep in a flock, unless there is real attachment -- even if she really is beautiful.

My dad says we need to keep her around because of her antics.

 

[The Moonshiner]

My dad says we need to keep her around because of her antics.

Lol. I think that's the same thing my mom said when my dad talked about culling me.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

Lol. I think that's the same thing my mom said when my dad talked about culling me.

ROTFL

 

[The Moonshiner]

I had to go track down and catch this rooster today and thought I'd share a pic.
If you use the chicken calculator or read about genetics then it's common knowledge that a barred rooster over a silver duckwing will produce a single gene barred black rooster that may or may not have leakage.
I just wanted to show how actual breeding doesn't always follow the books.
As you can see he has a bit more then some leakage. He's a lot closer to looking duckwing then black.
So much for dominate patterns.

 

[Redhead Rae]

I had to go track down and catch this rooster today and thought I'd share a pic.
If you use the chicken calculator or read about genetics then it's common knowledge that a barred rooster over a silver duckwing will produce a single gene barred black rooster that may or may not have leakage.
I just wanted to show how actual breeding doesn't always follow the books.
As you can see he has a bit more then some leakage. He's a lot closer to looking duckwing then black.
So much for dominate patterns.
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That’s interesting, I had one cockerel that was from a white leghorn over a Dominique hen. By all accounts he should have been white with hidden barring because of the dominant white. This is what he looked like.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

Could it be that those particular animals that were bred just happened to have recessive genes that popped up?
I'm curious to see how the hatch mates turned out in both of those clutches.Were they all the same pattern?Same color variance or different variances?
Is the end result to be blamed on incorrect calculation of "known"genes available or is it due to other unknown genes lurking underneath that were recessive?

Can someone elaborate why there are people that use the term "True white"Leghorns in their descritions of the birds they are working with?
It seems to insinuate that not all white leghorns are dominant White.

 

[cmom]

I bought three Single Comb White Leghorns from a breeder in January at a show. I put them with my male. One of the females lays a cream colored egg. That should tell me something. I hatch some chicks and some of the chicks have black in their wings and some turned out with Rose Combs. I think there is a mix in there somewhere. The fellow had a Rose Comb that looked in body shape like a White Leghorn. He said kit was a RC RIW. I think he may have had some crosses. I put the male in with my SC White Leghorns and all the chicks came out looking like SC White Leghorns, no odd coloring at all, so I suspect it was the female that lays the cream colored egg.

This is their coop so there is no way another male could have gotten in and mated with them. The outer coops are in the background.