The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[Chookwagn]

Gonna be breeding those blue gold duckwings?

hows best these made?

Blue male over Gold Duckwing hens?
Gold duckwing male over Blue hens?

 

[The Moonshiner]

hows best these made?

Blue male over Gold Duckwing hens?
Gold duckwing male over Blue hens?

It depends if your blues carry gold or silver and that's impossible to tell unless they have leakage.
Safest bet and what I'd do would be crossing a male gold duckwing over blue hens. Then cross male gold duckwing to all the first cross blue females. That should produce 50% duckwing, 50% blue and with luck all gold based.
That should get you some blue gold duckwings

 

[The Moonshiner]

I won't tell if you don't

I'm most excited about figuring out what colors they are after they hatch! Can you tell the colors of yours from the chick fluff or do you have to wait until they're older for some?

I can tell a lot but idk about all. I don't ever even try because of the number of varieties.
Here's the known possibilities.......

Black
Blue
Splash
Black Mottled
Blue Mottled
Gold Duckwing
Silver Duckwing
Silver/Gold Duckwing (males)
Blue Gold Duckwing
Blue Silver Duckwing
Blue Silver/Gold Duckwing (males)
Splash Gold Duckwing
Splash Silver Duckwing
Splash Silver/Gold Duckwing (males)
Crele Silver Duckwing (single barring gene)
Blue Crele Silver Duckwing (single barring gene)
Crele Gold Duckwing (single barring gene)
Blue Crele Gold Duckwing (single barring gene)
Crele Silver/Gold Duckwing (single barring gene)(males)
Blue Crele Silver/Gold Duckwing (single barring gene)(males)
Lavender Gold Duckwing
Lavender Silver Duckwing
Lavender Silver/Gold Duckwing (males)

 

[OneHappyDuckie]

I can tell a lot but idk about all. I don't ever even try because of the number of varieties.
Here's the known possibilities.......

Black
Blue
Splash
Black Mottled
Blue Mottled
Gold Duckwing
Silver Duckwing
Silver/Gold Duckwing (males)
Blue Gold Duckwing
Blue Silver Duckwing
Blue Silver/Gold Duckwing (males)
Splash Gold Duckwing
Splash Silver Duckwing
Splash Silver/Gold Duckwing (males)
Crele Silver Duckwing (single barring gene)
Blue Crele Silver Duckwing (single barring gene)
Crele Gold Duckwing (single barring gene)
Blue Crele Gold Duckwing (single barring gene)
Crele Silver/Gold Duckwing (single barring gene)(males)
Blue Crele Silver/Gold Duckwing (single barring gene)(males)
Lavender Gold Duckwing
Lavender Silver Duckwing
Lavender Silver/Gold Duckwing (males)

Those are all ones I could be hatching? Or those are all the varieties you have?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Lol, that's the possibilities from the eggs I'm hatching. You should get something from each pen so your possibles too.
Oh ya plus buff.
I wasn't kidding when I said a variety pack.

 

[The Moonshiner]

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[The Moonshiner]

Had a major set back with my lavender Duckwing group.
Came out day before yesterday to find their latch unlocked and everyone escaped.
Rounded up the girls but since they spent the night running a mock with unsavory males. Probably mostly with that Chook rooster now I can't use them for 6 weeks.
Never found the rooster. Figuring he probably wasn't fond of being turned loose in general population that he was probably hiding somewhere.
Decided I needed to track him down so yesterday I was forming a search party when I saw something that put it on hold.
Lost a blue hen. Classic raccoon attack. Pulled half through the wire and dismantled.
Rounded up my dog proof traps and bait etc. By then it started pouring rain and wasn't letting up. I set three of those traps and my live trap. Found the remains of my lost rooster behind the barn in the fence line.
Anyways.... this morning.......

Love those dog proof traps.
They're a pita to set and it seems it takes a lot of pressure to set them off but man do they work.
Will move and reset everything for tonight. I never trust there's only one when it comes to raccoons.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Had a major set back with my lavender Duckwing group.
Came out day before yesterday to find their latch unlocked and everyone escaped.
Rounded up the girls but since they spent the night running a mock with unsavory males. Probably mostly with that Chook rooster now I can't use them for 6 weeks.
Never found the rooster. Figuring he probably wasn't fond of being turned loose in general population that he was probably hiding somewhere.
Decided I needed to track him down so yesterday I was forming a search party when I saw something that put it on hold.
Lost a blue hen. Classic raccoon attack. Pulled half through the wire and dismantled.
Rounded up my dog proof traps and bait etc. By then it started pouring rain and wasn't letting up. I set three of those traps and my live trap. Found the remains of my lost rooster behind the barn in the fence line.
Anyways.... this morning.......
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Love those dog proof traps.
They're a pita to set and it seems it takes a lot of pressure to set them off but man do they work.
Will move and reset everything for tonight. I never trust there's only one when it comes to raccoons.

Oh no!

I'm dreading leaving for Michigan in a few weeks because of what happened last year when I was out of state

 

[The Moonshiner]

Oh no!

I'm dreading leaving for Michigan in a few weeks because of what happened last year when I was out of state

I hear urine is a good predator deterrent.
Just pee on all your birds before you leave. I'm sure that'll keep them safe.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I hear urine is a good predator deterrent.
Just pee on all your birds before you leave. I'm sure that'll keep them safe.

I'm thinking I'll just see if my friend's partner is okay dispatching a coon if one is caught and setting the traps before I leave and showing our house sitter how to do it if they're comfortable with the idea. Hopefully by then almost all the birds will be moved away from the barn where everything happened last year