The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[KF0002]

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.

So would you call them black-tailed reds instead of reds?

 

[KF0002]

Sounds like I need to get a hold of some buffs.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

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.

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Ah, gotcha, thanks

 

[KF0002]

On the calculator for the reds, when you put in db/db the bird has a black tail. Db/Db has a solid red tail. Would it be safe to assume my rooster is Db/db? Since he has black in his tail? Sorry for all the questions.

 

[The Moonshiner]

So would you call them black-tailed reds instead of reds?

That's what I would call them. I never saw any with black in the hackles so black tailed red seems the most fitting.

 

[The Moonshiner]

On the calculator for the reds, when you put in db/db the bird has a black tail. Db/Db has a solid red tail. Would it be safe to assume my rooster is Db/db? Since he has black in his tail? Sorry for all the questions.

I would assume they're db/db.

 

[KF0002]

That's what I would call them. I never saw any with black in the hackles so black tailed red seems the most fitting.

I would assume they're db/db.

Okay thank you. I will cross the best 2-3 daughters back to the rooster next year, avoiding the wry-tailed rooster entirely. Then probably breed some of the best offspring together (half brother to half sisters if I get offspring from more than one hen). But the hard inbreeding may be rough on the line. We'll see I guess. Is that how you would approach it? Or would you suck it up and use the wry-tailed rooster with the F1 crosses next year?

 

[KF0002]

It looks like breeding the F1B to F1B birds together would produce black patterned red columbians, black patterned gold wheatens, black patterned gold columbian, black patterned red duckwing, etc.

 

[KF0002]

Here are my first 2 Red x Brown Leghorn chicks. There is one more that just hatched in the incubator. They look like reddish colored brown leghorn chicks with their chipmunk pattern.

Don’t mind the egg particles, I use that plastic tub as a hatching tray in the bottom of the sportsman and the egg shells were from a previous hatch. These chicks were hatched in my Genesis and I put them in this tub to hold them while I put zip ties on them.

 

[KF0002]

Scratch that, two more Red x Brown chicks in the incubator with 1 more pipped.