The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[KF0002]

These are the other Exchequer birds that are available View attachment 4097120View attachment 4097121

I love the color of the variety but I hate a squirrel tail. They are a pain in the neck to correct. Nice yellow leg color on them though.

 

[KF0002]

Snapped a few pictures of the oldest group of Red x Browns. I noticed they are quite beefy, and saw that my husband has been feeding everything Gamebird starter. lol It will make the cull cockerels quite plump little fryers.

There is only one cockerel in the first group of 4, and 3 pullets. If these birds turn out nothing more than fryers and pretty little red layers, I really like them. The cockerel is the most chill. The pullets are wild as bucks. He was the only one who would stand still and pose for me. (Edited to add a tag to this in case someone ever searches to see what a "black patterned red (incomplete) columbian with less hackle markings" on a duckwing base looks like.)

Here is one of the pullets. They more or less all look the same.

 

[Amer]

Well those are very pretty though they look more like "white Vorwerk" than buff exchequer. I really don't see the mottling.

That's not to say I don't like them. Some of the prettiest birds I've ever seen...
I love white Vorwerks.

 

[Amer]

Snapped a few pictures of the oldest group of Red x Browns. I noticed they are quite beefy, and saw that my husband has been feeding everything Gamebird starter. lol It will make the cull cockerels quite plump little fryers.

There is only one cockerel in the first group of 4, and 3 pullets. If these birds turn out nothing more than fryers and pretty little red layers, I really like them. The cockerel is the most chill. The pullets are wild as bucks. He was the only one who would stand still and pose for me.

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Here is one of the pullets. They more or less all look the same.

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The breasts are a deeper shade of red than I usually see on the Welsummers, at least...

 

[Amer]

Here is the supposed "Ameraucana" the EEs came from. As you can see she looks completely blue, not a sign of duckwing on her. I wonder if Melanotic helps conceal her split base because she is pretty darkly laced.

Here is her half Buckeye chick (I didn't intentionally put my fingers in that position, I'm sorry I wasn't the one taking the picture so I didn't know what it looked like)
Anyway I think it may be e^Wh/e+ Mh/mh Co/co
It looks fairly Duckwing like my Welsummer chicks but I think the white spangles at the end of the feathers are larger.

For comparison, here is a Largefowl Buckeye that is the same age

I think they might have the slow feathering gene. I wonder if they could be used in a sex linked cross?

(The bantams do not have this gene.)

 

[KF0002]

The breasts are a deeper shade of red than I usually see on the Welsummers, at least...

Does it seem like they may be useful in working with? If I end up with only a few (or God forbid, none) of the Brown Leghorn eggs to hatch, I will have a very limited number of Leghorns to work with. I hope at least a few Buff eggs hatch, and I can work on maintaining them pure, as well as use them to work on the Reds.

 

[Amer]

Does it seem like they may be useful in working with? If I end up with only a few (or God forbid, none) of the Brown Leghorn eggs to hatch, I will have a very limited number of Leghorns to work with. I hope at least a few Buff eggs hatch, and I can work on maintaining them pure, as well as use them to work on the Reds.

I don't know...
They are baffling.

 

[Amer]

There's always backcrossing to do, lol.

 

[The Moonshiner]

 

[KF0002]

Here is the supposed "Ameraucana" the EEs came from. As you can see she looks completely blue, not a sign of duckwing on her. I wonder if Melanotic helps conceal her split base because she is pretty darkly laced.View attachment 4097156View attachment 4097157View attachment 4097153
Here is her half Buckeye chick (I didn't intentionally put my fingers in that position, I'm sorry I wasn't the one taking the picture so I didn't know what it looked like)
Anyway I think it may be e^Wh/e+ Mh/mh Co/co
It looks fairly Duckwing like my Welsummer chicks but I think the white spangles at the end of the feathers are larger. View attachment 4097167
For comparison, here is a Largefowl Buckeye that is the same ageView attachment 4097155
I think they might have the slow feathering gene. I wonder if they could be used in a sex linked cross?

(The bantams do not have this gene.)

If she is split duckwing and split black, the black would conceal any duckwing pattern from showing through. Same as a split black and split bronze based turkey. The poults look solid black at hatch. Black is dominant color over duckwing, like it is dominant over bronze in turkeys. Roosters with a split black and split duckwing base may show some red color leakage coming through the black, but the hens wouldn't. Correct me if I am wrong in this.