The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[ShrekDawg]

Ooooh. Got it. lol

Yeah. I was confused too at first till I saw they were new lol

 

[The Moonshiner]

I gotta get caught up. Back to not getting alerts to my own thread.

 

[Amer]

Anything that isn’t squirrel tailed would have better type in my opinion. I fit with squirrel tails in Marans for many years and it was so exhausting and frustrating to deal with. A lower tail in one bird balances out the higher tail of the bird you may be mating it to. Having a few birds around with lower set tails is very handy in correcting tails that are too high. I was always taught you must balance out flaws of one bird with the other bird you are mating them to. While the White Legbar isn’t perfect in type, neither is the Red Leghorn. And I just didn’t want to produce too many high tailed birds from that mating. I will have enough hopefully to cull through and get at least a few decent birds to use from the Red x Browns.

XD
And here I am struggling to get my d'Anvers to perk their tails up to 65 degrees...
Queeny would always walk around her pen with it high and proud but getting a bird to do that at a show is harder. Unless they are fighting.

 

[KF0002]

XD
And here I am struggling to get my d'Anvers to perk their tails up to 65 degrees...
Queeny would always walk around her pen with it high and proud but getting a bird to do that at a show is harder. Unless they are fighting.

Chickens tend to do the opposite of what you want them to do. You want them to lay, they go broody. You want their tail high, they hold it low. You want their tail lower, you get squirrel tails. They are diabolical.

 

[KF0002]

Yeah. I was confused too at first till I saw they were new lol

I didn’t pay attention until it was pointed out. lol

 

[ShrekDawg]

I didn’t pay attention until it was pointed out. lol

LOL

 

[KF0002]

@The Moonshiner what are your thoughts on using a Legbar in a Crele Leghorn project?

 

[The Moonshiner]

How big a fan are you of crele?
I really don't like bringing in a different breed but if that's the only way you kind of half to.
Definitely helps if the breed isn't too far from a Leghorn which Legbars aren't so I wouldn't be scared to. Just myself but I'd have to eliminate those crests ASAP.

 

[KF0002]

How big a fan are you of crele?
I really don't like bringing in a different breed but if that's the only way you kind of half to.
Definitely helps if the breed isn't too far from a Leghorn which Legbars aren't so I wouldn't be scared to. Just myself but I'd have to eliminate those crests ASAP.

It won't be hard to eliminate the crests at all. The F1 crosses will only be Cr/cr+, and then 50% of the F1B birds (F1s backcrossed to Leghorn) will have no crests. Same with the blue eggs. The Legbars are pure for the blue egg gene, and carry two copies. The F1 crosses will have one white and one blue egg gene and lay pale blue eggs. Then out of the F1B birds, about 50% will lay pale blue and the other 50% will lay white. I don't love the idea of outcrossing to a different breed, but like you said, Legbars aren't far from Leghorn due to having a great deal of Leghorn in their makeup. So if you were going to outcross to something, Legbar seems like a pretty good option.

And I really love the crele coloration. The pictures of crele leghorns I have seen are amazing. I figure the crele project birds can also be useful with the brown leghorn project. If you breed the barred F1 cross pullets to a non-barred Leghorn male (like one of the Red x Brown cockerels from this year), the offspring will be autosexing at hatch, producing single barred crele males and non-barred brown leghorn looking females. You can really line breed in many different directions, eliminating unwanted crest and blue egg genes, while selecting for desired Leghorn traits. I just have to study the Leghorn standard. Once I find my book.

 

[Chookwagn]

I gotta get caught up. Back to not getting alerts to my own thread.

Whats your breeding wishlist look like this season Moony?

What colors you trying for?