The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[The Moonshiner]

I'm not sure if I have a plain SDW male still. If so later in the year a can set up a pen and get you a few eggs.
If I was you I'd hope to hatch a couple males and use one with your good browns. Or hell use either sex with your browns. Shouldnt take long to get a good line of SDW then.

 

[KF0002]

Can he send me some too?

Reckon customs would believe it if we wrote "not eggs" on the package?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Reckon customs would believe it if we wrote "not eggs" on the package?

Chooks is a . Pirates can get around customs.

 

[KF0002]

I'm not sure if I have a plain SDW male still. If so later in the year a can set up a pen and get you a few eggs.
If I was you I'd hope to hatch a couple males and use one with your good browns. Or hell use either sex with your browns. Shouldnt take long to get a good line of SDW then.

I would appreciate some eggs later in the year if I can convince my husband to let me keep the incubators on. He knows if the incubators are on, I'ma put eggs in them so he has to be the voice of reason. I don't think he would mind as long as the brooders are empty by then. lol

If the Legbar rooster isn't fertilizing the Brown Leghorn hen's eggs, I will have to throw him out and we will cull him. So I am torn on whether to put a SDW Gamecock with her or another Legbar rooster.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I would appreciate some eggs later in the year if I can convince my husband to let me keep the incubators on. He knows if the incubators are on, I'ma put eggs in them so he has to be the voice of reason. I don't think he would mind as long as the brooders are empty by then. lol

If the Legbar rooster isn't fertilizing the Brown Leghorn hen's eggs, I will have to throw him out and we will cull him. So I am torn on whether to put a SDW Gamecock with her or another Legbar rooster.

I don't think the game fowl idea is a bad one. Isn't the type close? Idk so don't know how much trouble it'd be to get back to type but I think GF have some stuff that wouldn't be bad to add.
Hey maybe you could get broodiness.

 

[Chookwagn]

I don't think the game fowl idea is a bad one. Isn't the type close? Idk so don't know how much trouble it'd be to get back to type but I think GF have some stuff that wouldn't be bad to add.
Hey maybe you could get broodiness.

Would you get leg color issues?

 

[The Moonshiner]

Idk. Don't know what color the GF has.
Good thing about if you cross to a white skin breed is that white is dominate to yellow so when you get back to chicks with yellow shanks you know they're pure for yellow.

 

[KF0002]

I don't think the game fowl idea is a bad one. Isn't the type close? Idk so don't know how much trouble it'd be to get back to type but I think GF have some stuff that wouldn't be bad to add.
Hey maybe you could get broodiness.

Okay I may give it a go then. The biggest issue would be that the SDW Gamefowl line we have is willow legged. So breeding out the green leg gene could be challenging and could return to haunt me if I am not careful. The two breeds are similar in a lot of ways, similar in type, comb, feather type, body type, personality, etc. Games and Leghorns have different ideal toplines. The back of a Game slopes downward to the tail, and the tail and back have an abrupt angle. The ideal topline of a Leghorn is a gentle curve from the middle of the back upward to the tail. The gentle curve is caused by extra cushion feathers at the saddle. (I'm learning @Amer !)

This is the Game I would use over the Brown Leghorn hen. He is just a stag still and hasn’t developed his full cock feathers yet, so his tail will be nicer after he molts. They always look nicer after their first full mature molt. He is Silver Ginger with autosomal red (I think that is what @Amer said he was) and these birds are sports that cropped up in the SDW line. But if I use him I can take the project in two different directions: SDW and Silver Ginger. The genotype on these is likely e+/eWh Db/Db S/S. But some may be full Wheaten based, and some are full Duckwing based.

 

[KF0002]

If I cross the little Silver Ginger looking stag to the Brown Leghorn hen, their leg color would be sex-linked and any pullets produced would be green legged like the Game and the cockerel chicks will be yellow legged like the Leghorn hen. I could use an F1 yellow legged Golden Duckwing male next year to mate to a Brown Leghorn hen and get Golden Duckwing males and SDW females, breeding away from the Db gene and green legged gene, toward Leghorn.

In another direction, I could mate two F1s together and reinforce the Db and silver genes, and cull any green legged offspring from the mating. I should get some male and female yellow legged offspring from that cross.

 

[NagemTX]

As SDW is one of my favs I look forward to seeing this project happening.