The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[KF0002]

Looks like he just parted his hair on the wrong side.

lol yeah. Here is a little cockerel that looks non-crested. I am curious to see how their combs end up looking.

 

[NagemTX]

Eggs are in from GypsyHen. All the Easter babies are out in the Crested EE pen. Also that rooster is fertile he just doesn't like the Ameraucanas. The Spitzhauben eggs have hatched under a broody.

 

[NagemTX]

Ill have to get pictures! One is a gold spangled, and the other is a chamois spangled.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I'm not a total snake hater. I used to have several pythons but I hate the black snakes. We get too many here. They steal a lot of eggs and they eat chicks and kill juvies if they can get to them.
And yes they usually surprise me and scared the crap outta me. Ours aren't particularly nice either they'll run if they get the chance but if they even suspect there's a chance they won't make a clean get away they stay and strike. 5 or 6 foots can really reach out there quick. I got a kid.

You have to take them pretty far off to keep them away. Like multiple miles away.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Isn't there a line of blue laying brown leghorns out there somewhere? I think I remember some one on the fourm useing to try and create blue laying gold laced or silver laced wyndots.

Yes they came out of the University of Arkansas.
@DarJones was the member working on blue egg laying Wyandottes that used them.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Man I can not keep up with all this hatchings you all got going on.
I didn't get to do anything but chores yesterday but today I parted ways with about 3 dozen or a few more more roosters. Probably only have maybe 5 more that need to go. Just need to do some final picks of a couple varieties.
Then I got to move on to females. Ugh I'll hate letting very many of them go.
I saved one rooster from the chocolate project I started. He's extended black/gold duckwing and split for chocolate. Set him up with 4 brown Leghorn girls today. Be one of those hatch a lot to get a few if I'm lucky keepers.
There's a chance for chocolate gold duckwing females so if I get any I'll keep them.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Stormy day here again which will continue all night. All day it's went back and forth from light rain to thunderstorms. Looks like thunderstorms from here on but only hour or hour and a half of daylight so no big deal.
All day every time it let up I ran out and worked on something until it'd pour again. Did get some things accomplished so now it'll just be TV time.

 

[KF0002]

Man I can not keep up with all this hatchings you all got going on.
I didn't get to do anything but chores yesterday but today I parted ways with about 3 dozen or a few more more roosters. Probably only have maybe 5 more that need to go. Just need to do some final picks of a couple varieties.
Then I got to move on to females. Ugh I'll hate letting very many of them go.
I saved one rooster from the chocolate project I started. He's extended black/gold duckwing and split for chocolate. Set him up with 4 brown Leghorn girls today. Be one of those hatch a lot to get a few if I'm lucky keepers.
There's a chance for chocolate gold duckwing females so if I get any I'll keep them.

Can't wait to see some Chocolate Gold Duckwings! That sounds amazing!

As your hatching starts to ramp up, mine is slowing down. I am only collecting eggs from 2 pairs now, the Ameraucana pair and the Silver Ginger rooster over the Brown Leghorn hen. I have all of I think 7 eggs due to hatch in 2 weeks. I do have a group of mixed yard eggs hatching to give a friend of my husband this weekend. I may collect and set for another few more weeks from the two pairs, then we will shut down the incubators sometime in June.

 

[KF0002]

Stormy day here again which will continue all night. All day it's went back and forth from light rain to thunderstorms. Looks like thunderstorms from here on but only hour or hour and a half of daylight so no big deal.
All day every time it let up I ran out and worked on something until it'd pour again. Did get some things accomplished so now it'll just be TV time.

We are expecting more storms and tornado potential weather tomorrow. Apparently, tornado alley has shifted, and Kentucky is one of the states included in it. As soon as possible, we will be digging a storm shelter.

 

[KF0002]

Ill have to get pictures! One is a gold spangled, and the other is a chamois spangled.

I need to see what a chamois spangled looks like. Sounds fancy. lol