Those are fantastic!Looking great in type. Color is going to take a lot of work.View attachment 1824730
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Those are fantastic!Looking great in type. Color is going to take a lot of work.View attachment 1824730
Lol.Silver Columbian Leghorns?
Are these the same/or parent birds?View attachment 1597957 View attachment 1597958
A new 10 year project. These LF Columbian Leghorns are a breeder trio from Oakes and are settling in nicely here at my yard. I am delighted with these birds in type and size. The birds compliment themselves well for breeding in type and color.
Figured an update was finally due.
This has been a terrible year with what seems like everything going wrong.
Bad winter with lots of cold and tons of snow, late spring and a lot of slackers when it came to getting laying underway. etc etc.
I'd been deciding plans for this year and contemplating a kinda rebuild year. Not hatching so much but building up some of my colors slowly and building some new pens, brooders etc.
Hatching has been slow because egg production was slower then usually and hatch rates have been lower then usual and then of course throwing a batch on the floor once.
Anyways a couple weeks ago mother nature decided to make sure it was going to be a rebuild year and about put me out of business completely.
We had a quick little storm blow through and idk if it was just strong straight line winds or a micro burst or what but he got a lot of damage and a lot of losses.I completely lost my breeder barn, the roof and one wall from my grow out lean to and half the roof from my big barn with my brooders.
Lost two big brooders, three grow out pens and 15 breeder pens.
I lost 200+ leghorns mostly my breeders and I'm down to about 50 adults plus at least that many chicks as of now.
I don't think I have any colors with more then a few birds except my buffs. That was the only breeder pen with birds that was spared.
Now I've had to shuffle birds to new enclosures with most going into the big barn with only half a roof. Yesterday I discovered a mite issue has now come up. First time I've ever had mites so now to deal with that.
As my grandma used to say "if it isn't one thing its a dozen."
Dang is right.
Been a couple weeks so I'm getting over it.
Could of been worse.
None of us were hurt and my son and I was outside when it happened. Only damage to the house was some siding blew away as well as the whole garage door that I had half open.
Can you post a few pics of these two roosters?Hi I have a question. I hatched out some blue leghorns from my own splash and black birds. I got some blue roosters that were dark on the neck and back. As one of these got to be 2 months old he started to show gold and baring in the dark areas. It looks like he will continue to get more gold as he matures. I'm thinking he has those from his mother. Genes that didn't show thru the splash and they are sexed linked traits. At the same hatch I had a blue rooster who is mostly bared or Mottled. He is darker and barred everywhere except butt and tail feathers. Any thoughts on if these are two different genes or just difference in penetration?