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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    The only eggs we are getting right now are mainly from the OG White Leghorn hens and the young White Leghorn pullets. They are top tier layers and will lay when nothing else will. Not much else has laid the past few days besides them.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I just lost a chick. One of the little White Leghorns.:hit She passed away right in my hands. I was studying and all of a sudden I heard a loud distressing chirping coming from my son's room (where their brooder is). I jumped up and when I looked into the brooder the chick was kind of doing...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    My sons ameraucanas are very docile and gentle also. It takes the roosters a good while longer than other breeds to develop the confidence to crow and try to be dominant over the older hens. His ameraucana rooster that died a few months ago, Crow, was very respectful and gentle to the hens...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I would recommend putting her in broody jail for a couple of weeks and breaking her up. This is a horrible time of year for a broody to try to hatch and tend chicks. I am brooding chicks indoors and they do fine with heat lamps, but even with a mother hen, winter is really hard for them to try...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    They are nice looking birds though! Just don't expect them to lay/crow early like Leghorns. lol
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Ameraucanas are a slower maturing breed, so just give him time. They are slow to mature and the pullets don't usually lay until they are 8-9 months old. My Splash hen was closer to a year old before she finally laid her first egg. I had just about given up on her entirely.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I think I was dealing with some lethal combination of genes in a pair of turkeys I tried to breed last spring. I only hatched one poult from the pair out of dozens of eggs, and that poult failed to thrive and died. All of the other eggs died during incubation or did not develop at all. It is...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    The brood birds have all taken a laying hiatus because of the weather. So I am considering that divine intervention to keep me from hatching and brooding so many baby chickens during the coldest months of the year. I have one more small clutch I am going to set tonight, then I will likely call...
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Wow I did not know that. Very interesting and educational.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I wouldn't recommend hatching from any bird with defects like that that aren't a part of a breed's specific characteristics. Such pullets are soft culls, which means we keep the pullets as layers only.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    She will be a unique little layer. 😊
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    If she is a Leghorn, she will lay white eggs.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    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.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    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.
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    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    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.
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