The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[KF0002]

Reinventing the wheel is the best way to get new blood out there!

Yeah that is true. When I used to attend poultry shows, I never saw any Crele Leghorns being shown. Only Browns and Whites. While I love the look of Browns and Whites, Crele on a Leghorn is really striking and I hope I can attain the coloring while breeding toward standard Leghorn type. It is fun breeding birds, then sorting through progeny and selecting breeders to move forward. I enjoy it so hopefully it won't be too much of a headache. I am working on reading through this thread and absorbing as much Leghorn knowledge as I can. I am committing the standard Leghorn shape that is desirable to my mind so I know what to select for in keeper birds.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Yeah that is true. When I used to attend poultry shows, I never saw any Crele Leghorns being shown. Only Browns and Whites. While I love the look of Browns and Whites, Crele on a Leghorn is really striking and I hope I can attain the coloring while breeding toward standard Leghorn type. It is fun breeding birds, then sorting through progeny and selecting breeders to move forward. I enjoy it so hopefully it won't be too much of a headache. I am working on reading through this thread and absorbing as much Leghorn knowledge as I can. I am committing the standard Leghorn shape that is desirable to my mind so I know what to select for in keeper birds.

I haven't even heard of crele leghorns. Not in the states anyways.

 

[Amer]

Speaking of confusing, my mom set four eggs from our blue Ameraucanas hens. They were sired by a Buckeye. We should be getting blue and black chicks, not blue and wheaten/duckwing chicks. I knew the Ameraucanas weren't great, but I never expected them be EEs carrying duckwing. One might have a brassy cast but there's not a spot of leakage in sight!

 

[KF0002]

I haven't even heard of crele leghorns. Not in the states anyways.

Oh so the pictures I see when I google Crele Leghorns are not even in this country then. Wow that stinks.

 

[KF0002]

I haven't even heard of crele leghorns. Not in the states anyways.

Here are some that come up on the Google. These are in a different country though I’m sure. It makes me even more interested in trying to create them since they virtually don’t exist in the US then. That is crazy to me since crele is such an interesting color variety.

These pictures are not mine. I screenshotted them from Google.

 

[Amer]

Here are some that come up on the Google. These are in a different country though I’m sure. It makes me even more interested in trying to create them since they virtually don’t exist in the US then. That is crazy to me since crele is such an interesting color variety.

These pictures are not mine. I screenshotted them from Google.

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I've posted some even prettier ones on this thread that I've found on the web. But finding them would be hard.

 

[KF0002]

Speaking of confusing, my mom set four eggs from our blue Ameraucanas hens. They were sired by a Buckeye. We should be getting blue and black chicks, not blue and wheaten/duckwing chicks. I knew the Ameraucanas weren't great, but I never expected them be EEs carrying duckwing. One might have a brassy cast but there's not a spot of leakage in sight!
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These chickens are constantly throwing us curveballs! Most Ameraucanas people sell are really Easter Eggers and lay green eggs. The pure lines that lay blue are harder to find. Which you already know, since you used to breed them. (I read that you used to breed them in this thread as Ive been reading through it). Your little Buckeye Easter Egger crosses are so cute!

 

[KF0002]

I've posted some even prettier ones on this thread that I've found on the web. But finding them would be hard.

I’m on page like 189 or something. I have a long way to go. lol

 

[KF0002]

I got put on call at work so for now, I get to stay home. So I took a picture of one of the little Red Duckwing looking Leghorn chicks as I was feeding them in the brooder building a bit ago.

 

[Amer]

I found out there is a way I can sort by just the pictures, but stopped letting me load more after a certain point.

Anyway...
I was wondering

@MIAMI LEGHORN
Here's a silver duckwing X gold duckwing (brown) rooster.
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Could I please use a picture of this guy on my genetics blog Moony? I would credit you, of course
I've never got a picture of a goldxsilver cross because too often Mahogany is involved and I don't know which roosters are genuinely just gold/silver duckwing!