The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[Amer]

Speaking of weird shank colors, here's a blip I noticed in my flock
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[ABQ chicken keeper]

Cause duckwing is my favorite pattern and I've crossed it with a ton of stuff...
Blue, chocolate, lavender, mottled, barred, etc, etc

Can you post pic's of samples especially duckwing chickens, I would like a clearer understanding of the pattern.

 

[KF0002]

Idk anything about those green legs.
Once upon a time I had a lot of grow outs free ranging. Decided one day to catch up a few to take pics. I believe they were buffs. Anyways once I started catching them and putting them in a cage I started noticing green shanks. Confused I started looking closer. All of them had yellow with a green overcast to them.
WTH? I was thinking. Took me a bit but then I figured it out. They'd all been running freshly mowed grass. Duh

That would be enough to give someone a heart attack until you figured out the green was just grass stains.

 

[KF0002]

Culled 9 young cockerels today we didn’t need, so we could cut down on feed cost and free up space. Took a pic of this pretty little lady. She is from the first group of winter chicks and is pretty chill. She is one of the green legged pullets from the Buff x iBTR and will make a lovely layer.

 

[Amer]

Culled 9 young cockerels today we didn’t need, so we could cut down on feed cost and free up space. Took a pic of this pretty little lady. She is from the first group of winter chicks and is pretty chill. She is one of the green legged pullets from the Buff x iBTR and will make a lovely layer.

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She's adorable!

 

[KF0002]

She's adorable!

Thank you! I think so too. She may be a "cull" as a breeder, but she is definitely going to be a good egg producer.

 

[Iluveggers]

I got unsubscribed/not notified of this thread and had to scroll to find and catch up! Moony I hope you are feeling better! Our weather has been semi-mild too and we had some snow melt which made the chickens happier but getting a small dusting the next few days so throwing some straw down to entice them out of the covered area for exercise…

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.

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They are adorable, I’m getting chic fever but won’t set any eggs w our weather until early to mid March.

Here’s my first two leghorns. They are 17 weeks old. The comb size difference to me at this age is surprising. They came from a mixed order fromMcMurray on a whim b/c I wanted a white egg layer. Turned into two of my favorite out there.