The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[BlindLemonChicken]

Can you get a close up picture of him from the side?

I will try when I go to lock them up. He is understandably furious with me for moving him last night to put the pullets in his pen.

 

[KF0002]

Here are the chicks from this week’s hatch. A very small group. None of the Buff x iBTR eggs hatched from this set and all looked like late quitters. Which could be something genetic caused by the other Buff rooster I put in to replace the Buff rooster that was throwing green legs. Its very peculiar because usually I get an awesome hatch rate from that pen so I am suspicious. I will test it out a couple more settings and may end up swapping the rooster yet again.

3/3 of the eggs hatched from the incomplete BTRs (iBTRx iBTR). Lots of variation in those chicks since both parents are only heterozygous for mahogany and columbian. One looks like a red duckwing or iBTR, one looks like a iBTR that is homozygous for red possibly because it looks different than the iBTR chicks I hatched last year. And one looks complete columbian but no rusty red on its beak that usually indicates mahogany so I will watch it to see how it feathers out. Could be a gold columbian (Black Tailed Gold) or red columbian (Black Tailed Red), depending on if it inherited mahogany or not.

 

[Chookwagn]

You should do more things.....

She should do ALL the things....

 

[Amer]

Oh chicks are not happening. I will just be keeping an eye out for pullets or hens

All you need is a light brown hen and half of the offspring will be light brown or blue breasted brown
(Gold duckwing or blue gold duckwing.)

 

[Amer]

Actually now that I looked at Murray McMurrays he looks like he has the Extended black gene (no bay wing bay) along with duckwing which throws a wrench in what I said. He's just blue with leakage.
but these will be the results with a light brown

 

[Amer]

Oops I mean Hoovers

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Most likely I will be breeding him with the silvers as soon as they start laying.

 

[Amer]

Most likely I will be breeding him with the silvers as soon as they start laying.

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

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All options look amazing! I might throw a game hen in with him too at some point to get some antisocial mongrel chickens.

 

[Appalachickens]

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Fingers crossed for the patterned ones!