The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[The Moonshiner]

How did you make the mille’s?

I actually bought milles from three sources but they all turned out to be junk. I worked a bit with them but there was so much to correct.
I end up only keeping a pair then the male fell apart by adulthood. I am still only working with the one pure MF hen. I crossed her with my best buff rooster and started working from there.
I'm trying to split into two groups. A more of a lighter MF pattern and then a darker speckled sussex look.
That project is going super slow unfortunately. I have hopes of also going towards a porcelain pattern.
I do have some 55 flowery leghorns for another source of mottling I can work from.

 

[Kiki]

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[Amer]

I sort of figured they couldn't match a hatchery white. Nice to know you're working on production, though. Someday, I'd like to have nice birds that also lay well, and I feel that this quality is greatly underemphasized in the breeder world. What good is your perfectly shaped, brick-like sussex with the long back and low-set tail if she doesn't lay anything?

And, yeah. Sorry. I sort of vacillate between using "silver duckwing" and "silver partridge." I'm pretty sure they're the same thing, just with regional differences in terminology. Am I right?

Duckwing coloring and partridge coloring are different physically and genetically. Duckwing is wild type. Partridge is a double laced type feather. https://www.google.com/search?q=par...=635&safe=active&ssui=on#imgrc=PE8RVqIFmGMWfM: partidge
https://www.google.com/search?q=par...=635&safe=active&ssui=on#imgrc=sscU91rqwlU_jM: duckwing.
The difference is one gene, the E gene.
e+ is duckwing
e^b is partridge.

 

[The Moonshiner]

 

[Amer]

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Cuckoo gold duckwing mottled?

 

[KikiLeigh02]

They are all beautiful!!! I really love your Exchequer, their tails are fabulous.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Cuckoo gold duckwing mottled?

Cuckoo gold duckwing mottled is what 55 flowery are.
That one is exchequer cuckoo.

 

[Amer]

I love them all♡ My favorites are the Isabels and lav cuckoos.

How do you get lavender cuckoo? Or "paint" cuckoo with anything. I.e lemon, lavender, blue

I hope I'm not taking over this thread. You don't "paint" cuckoo with anything you paint cuckoo on anything. Cuckoo is controlled by one gene so crossing a cuckoo rooster with another color hen and after a few years of back crossing at most you will get that color. "cuckoo-ed."
Lavender cuckoo in particular is made by crossing a double cuckoo rooster with a lavender hen and taking the double cuckoo male offspring and crossing them with the lavender female. You will only have some lavender cuckoo offspring but taking the double factor cuckoo lavender males with lavender cuckoo females you will get completely lavender cuckoo offspring.

 

[Amer]

Cuckoo gold duckwing mottled is what 55 flowery are.
That one is exchequer cuckoo.

Sorry. Couldn't tell from the slightly blurry photos.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Duckwing coloring and partridge coloring are different physically and genetically. Duckwing is wild type. Partridge is a double laced type feather. https://www.google.com/search?q=par...=635&safe=active&ssui=on#imgrc=PE8RVqIFmGMWfM: partidge
https://www.google.com/search?q=par...=635&safe=active&ssui=on#imgrc=sscU91rqwlU_jM: duckwing.
The difference is one gene, the E gene.
e+ is duckwing
e^b is partridge.

In a lot of other countries "partridge" is kinda a catch all phrase for about all the patterns with BBR males.
Makes it confusing over here at times.
But I'm on the same page as you.