The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[The Moonshiner]

Moony
I am incoherent

Oh princess
SMDH

 

[The Moonshiner]

Yeah I read about Anconas and Leghorns being from the same origins.
I have enough Red Leghorn pullets to start my side project of Red Anconas,but now I'm torn because I would like to start a Red Mottled Leghorn project.Since they both have almost the same origins should I just call it my Red Mottled Leghorn project and shelve the Ancona one?
Or should I find a known Black Mottled Leghorn rooster and go from there?

I guess first you'll have to decide what is a mottled leghorn?
Is an Ancona the same thing? Is there no such thing?
What about exchequer? Can you ever get a mottled leghorn?
I've heard mottled talk all day here and idk what to really say.
I do side with chooks mottled haven't been my favorite patterns. I side with you. I love all patterns to a degree if they're on leghorns.
I've worked with mottled for years now. It's fascinating and easily the most frustrating for such a simple gene.
Or is it really a simple gene? Or is it even a gene or are there multiple mottled genes?
It does change with age like nothing else. It can be clean and neat or messy. I like both.
I've worked with poor examples of exchequer until they made me nuts. I've crossed them and discovered they are strange. I researched and talked to experts. It's my conclusion no one I've spoken with understand them. Several different opinions.
I've also produced mottling unexpectedly on a bird and continued with that gene. It has been like the normal mottling gene like the Ancona.
Next year I'll be into a third. It'll be mottling pulled from 55s.
The last year or so I've focused on barring but next year I plan to dive into the mottling and run with it just to see how things play out.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Hit the wall smoking and spinning

That basically sums my 2021 thread I have

 

[Miami Leghorn]

German Leghorns are really stocky compared to what’s popular here. Or maybe it’s just that they have shorter legs and necks which achieves that look. My mom’s Anconas are deep and wide without looking like that.

My Ancona rooster has thickened up a bit. Quite a bit actually.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

What do you think of this guy? Not mine.

 

[Painted Calls]

@Chookwagn

Before her first molt:

Just now:

 

[Chookwagn]

@Chookwagn

Before her first molt:
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Just now:
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So awesome!

Amazing how much they change.

They look so similar! Rona and Missy

 

[Chookwagn]

 

[The Moonshiner]

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What colors are common there?

 

[Chookwagn]

What colors are common there?

White most common by far

Not so common
Black
Blue
Cuckoo
Silver Duckwing

Rare
Mottled
Gold Duckwing
Buff