The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[Amer]

Moony, you'd be happy to hear that the large fowl that was shown the MOST at the APA 2023 National (the 150th anniversary show) was Leghorns. I don't remember what the year book said but I think there were more than 100 and less than 200.
This pales in comparison to the most numerous bird, the detestable Call Ducks, but it was something.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Moony, you'd be happy to hear that the large fowl that was shown the MOST at the APA 2023 National (the 150th anniversary show) was Leghorns. I don't remember what the year book said but I think there were more than 100 and less than 200.
This pales in comparison to the most numerous bird, the detestable Call Ducks, but it was something.

That's awesome.
Do you know what varieties besides white and both browns?

 

[Amer]

That's awesome.
Do you know what varieties besides white and both browns?

that was like two years ago
Well there was definitely silvers and uhh I give up. Buff probably.

 

[KF0002]

Wanted to share a pic of my best Red Leghorn rooster. He is one of two roosters I ended up with out of the order from McMurray's last year if you remember. The rest of the reds in the order (including the replacement order) didn't make it. I have him over two Brown Leghorn hens. The other rooster has a wry tail. This is the same rooster, two different shots. One in the pen and one in better lighting. He isn't horrible, but they will definitely be a work in progress for a while I'm sure.

 

[KF0002]

Gotta do what you gotta do. What did you do order 25 males from McMurray?
It'll be more work but honestly in the long run I think you'll be better off. I had Reds from them and I wasn't impressed. I had a serious failure to thrive issue. And the ones that did survive seemed undersized I never even laid that great.
I crossed a few in with my Buffs. I don't have any Reds right now but I still have a couple Buffs with their genes.
Gotta get my buff numbers up soon so after I do I might go back to working on Reds again.

So will you breed the Buffs with the red genes together to work on your Reds? I have been tinkering with the genetics calculator trying to figure out what a pain it is going to be to get Reds coming without black tails. It will take a while. My rooster has some black in his tail. Does that come from Db? Or being split duckwing? I am still trying to figure out all of the chicken color genetics.

 

[The Moonshiner]

So will you breed the Buffs with the red genes together to work on your Reds? I have been tinkering with the genetics calculator trying to figure out what a pain it is going to be to get Reds coming without black tails. It will take a while. My rooster has some black in his tail. Does that come from Db? Or being split duckwing? I am still trying to figure out all of the chicken color genetics.

Db I assume. The difference in the buffs and black tailed reds were that the buffs had a dilute gene and the reds had the black tails. When crossed the offspring only received one dilute gene so they were in between. More of a lighter red.
They also only had one gene that made the tails black so they would have black but not as much.

 

[KF0002]

Db I assume. The difference in the buffs and black tailed reds were that the buffs had a dilute gene and the reds had the black tails. When crossed the offspring only received one dilute gene so they were in between. More of a lighter red.
They also only had one gene that made the tails black so they would have black but not as much.

Is there any way to breed the black tails out or am I just stuck with black tails with my limited birds to work with? Here is the wry tailed rooster. I don’t want to use him unless I have to as wry tails are horribly genetic unfortunately.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I haven't worked with it enough but I think you're stuck with it.
The Reds are db/db. You need Db/Db to get rid of it. Browns etc are db/db.
Buff are the only ones I know of that are Db/Db.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Honest question, can you even see the black with that deep red?

 

[KF0002]

Honest question, can you even see the black with that deep red?

You can in the tail feathers if you look closely. On the main tail feathers, not the sickles, one half of each feather is black and one half is red.