The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[KF0002]

He looks more like no beard to me.
I think that's just what is looks like when you get a non-bearded out of a line that has been selected for large, long, full beard feathers for so long. You can also see the dewlap that people use to achieve the long trilobe beard.

My Mb/mb males (and with the Dominique d'Anver crosses there have been many) never looked like that.

Well maybe at least I can get some birds hetero for beards out of the pair and then can mate a rooster hetero for beard back to the hen next year.

 

[KF0002]

Check out the "beard" on this Brahma I saw.View attachment 4105287
It's clearly just the tiny facial feathers being slightly larger and fuller than usual.

So does that mean genetic evidence of an outcrossing possibly? Or just a fluke mutation that has cropped up in the line?

 

[Amer]

So does that mean genetic evidence of an outcrossing possibly? Or just a fluke mutation that has cropped up in the line?

I think it's a fluke mutation
Looks very purebred
She definitely doesn't have the real beard gene but I do think she has a gene that makes them longer and fuller than usual.


Here's my demonspawn cockerels being themselves (click on it it's a link)
The Buckeye was even sick of them but he went for the wrong guy
I think that Nate the Dominique would be happy to find his descendants have much more luck charming the females than he ever did. They're horrible to us but they actually are good to the other birds (they just enjoy fighting is all.)

 

[KF0002]

I think it's a fluke mutation
Looks very purebred
She definitely doesn't have the real beard gene but I do think she has a gene that makes them longer and fuller than usual.


Here's my demonspawn cockerels being themselves (click on it it's a link)
The Buckeye was even sick of them but he went for the wrong guy
I think that Nate the Dominique would be happy to find his descendants have much more luck charming the females than he ever did. They're horrible to us but they actually are good to the other birds (they just enjoy fighting is all.)

Yes roosters definitely enjoy fighting. When it more playful like this its just sparring. Even our young game pullets will spar. The hens fight for pure drama and status. Our Game roosters enjoy fighting in a different way and have no quit in them. If they accidentally get out and get to another one through the wire, its bad.

The Buckeye pecked the darker barred rooster like “not today satan!”

 

[Amer]

Yes roosters definitely enjoy fighting. When it more playful like this its just sparring. Even our young game pullets will spar. The hens fight for pure drama and status. Our Game roosters enjoy fighting in a different way and have no quit in them. If they accidentally get out and get to another one through the wire, its bad.

The Buckeye pecked the darker barred rooster like “not today satan!”

My d'Anvers hens love nothing more than a good fight that they are involved in.

 

[KF0002]

I went to take a picture of the Silver Wheaten hen we have left (gave some to a friend). And of course, she is broody. Typical Game.

 

[Amer]

I went to take a picture of the Silver Wheaten hen we have left (gave some to a friend). And of course, she is broody. Typical Game.

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Silver wheaten is gorgeous.

 

[KF0002]

My d'Anvers hens love nothing more than a good fight that they are involved in.

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[KF0002]

Silver wheaten is gorgeous.

I think so too!

 

[NagemTX]

Something probably ate him. That's what happened to my first OEGB bantams. I learned the hard way they are extra easy pickings for all kinds of predators, and they don't do well free-ranging.

My OEGB are doing great free range but they have like 9 LF roosters to run too for help.