The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[KF0002]

@BlueBaby was it you who had the juvenile chicken without a tail? How is that bird doing? I just happened to think of it.

 

[BlueBaby]

@BlueBaby was it you who had the juvenile chicken without a tail? How is that bird doing? I just happened to think of it.

Yes, I have a silver leghorn one. It never did grow a tail, and it's smaller then the other 2. Why do you ask?

 

[KF0002]

Yes, I have a silver leghorn one. It never did grow a tail, and it's smaller then the other 2. Why do you ask?

I was just curious. We had a Game pullet that ended up being rumpless this year and it made me think of it. We had never had a Game from that line come that way before her so its odd it just randomly pops up in a line.

 

[BlueBaby]

I was just curious. We had a Game pullet that ended up being rumpless this year and it made me think of it. We had never had one before her so its odd it just randomly pops up in a line.

My tailess pullet is doing ok, and the others don't pick on her.

 

[KF0002]

We had never seen that particular line of Games crop up with a rumpless bird and I found it interesting how the genes can sometimes either spontaneously mutate or the gene just exists in the line until it pairs up with another eventually and shows up.

 

[KF0002]

My tailess pullet is doing ok, and the others don't pick on her.

Yeah the Game pullet we have acts completely normal. She even lays eggs, she just doesn’t have a tail. lol. It doesn’t hurt them at all.

 

[BlueBaby]

Yeah the Game pullet we have acts completely normal. She even lays eggs, she just doesn’t have a tail. lol. It doesn’t hurt them at all.

I guess she can live out her life here. I don't have to hatch any future egg's from her.

 

[KF0002]

I guess she can live out her life here. I don't have to hatch any future egg's from her.

I have a rumpless OE free ranging currently who is 2-3 years old. She does just fine and is a good layer of a nice darker green egg.

 

[BlueBaby]

I have a rumpless OE free ranging currently who is 2-3 years old. She does just fine and is a good layer of a nice darker green egg.

This one hasn't started to lay egg's yet. She doesn't have any ear tuffs. I'll have to see what color of an egg that she lays, because I'm curious. I'm sure they will still taste good.

 

[KF0002]

This one hasn't started to lay egg's yet. She doesn't have any ear tuffs. I'll have to see what color of an egg that she lays, because I'm curious. I'm sure they will still taste good.

If she is a Leghorn, she will lay white eggs.