Austra White or White Leghorn?

[RodNTN]

Hi! I have had these two girls for about 2 years, I got them from the White Leghorn bin at a feed store, they have had a few black spots along their backs their entire lives, but I never noticed until I noticed the difference between the two breeds.

I don't have many pics, but here are some I have:

Thanks in advance!

 

[GaryDean26]

My dad got some Austa Whites in the Early 60's for a 4H projects. That is the only mention I have ever seen to Austra Whites. They a cross of Orpingtons and Leghorns. What you have look like Ideal 236 Leghorns. The Austra Whited are fuller birds with red ear lobes. Your show white earlobes. The black specs are the Hallmark of the Ideal 236.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Definitely not a leghorn.

Doesn't look white rock to me either. I'm not familiar with the Austra's yet.

I do know that white is a dominant gene and can be hiding many colors underneath. Possibly creating the bleed through. I have paints that I specifically breed for the wholes in pigmentation.

But your leghorn looks like it has bleed through spots too? I just love their big red combs against their white bodies! Very striking.

Breed/gender game is one of my faves... even when I stink.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

That is the only mention I have ever seen to Austra Whites.

https://www.cacklehatchery.com/austra-white.html
Sold at that hatchery now.

It does look very much the like the Austra... but the combs on my blacks have been much larger than that one. Which was why I mention Rock. But I think it has different leg color. Not sure about eyes. What color are her ear lobes?

 

[Jadesun6]

I'll just say first off I'm fairly new to chickens myself. Ill put my two cents in anyways! I think they might be California whites. They take a leghorn hen and breed with a California Grey rooster. That gives the white dominant gene with the black leakage spots. I just got a couple last August. I don't remember how old they are here. I don't have any current pictures.

When I looked them up when I first got them another member poster a picture of theirs. I don't remember who it was, but I saved the image.

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Like I said, i may be wrong, but that's my best guess! Oh, and here is one of them as a chick.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

They are either Ideal 236 Leghorns or California Grays. Austra Whites are a cross between a white leghorn and an australorp.

 

[Gray Farms]

They are a White Leghorn hybrid of some kind. Depending on the hatchery they came from depends on what they would "technically" be called. Ideal 236, California Whites, etc... Most every hatchery has a bird like this that is their own breeding but most look like these "white with a little black leakage".

 

[debid]

They are a White Leghorn hybrid of some kind. Depending on the hatchery they came from depends on what they would "technically" be called. Ideal 236, California Whites, etc... Most every hatchery has a bird like this that is their own breeding but most look like these "white with a little black leakage".

This. It's like how there are at least a dozen different red broilers -- everyone has their own flavor but they're all so similar that you can't tell which you have without knowing which hatchery produced it.

 

[EggSighted4Life]

Most every hatchery has a bird like this that is their own breeding

Most feed stores will be able to tell you which hatchery they ordered from too. It's very often how we decipher what the actual breed is. Find out which hatchery, then check out their birds on their site.

 

[drumstick diva]

agree with Gray Farms