The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[KF0002]

Also, tiny crests are always noticeable on pullets but can be concealed on males, that is true. So my plan is to only use non-crested white egg laying crele pullets from the F1B cross to breed forward from that point to a Brown Leghorn male. I am in the process of trying to locate a nice standard bred group of Brown Leghorn birds to work with next year.

 

[KF0002]

This is true. These Leghorn X Legbar produced both non crested and small crested offspring.
They weren't F1 crosses and were breed towards eliminating the crests.
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Are these your blue crele birds? They are amazing!!

 

[The Moonshiner]

Are these your blue crele birds? They are amazing!!

They were lavender crele that a BYC friend created. I ended up getting 2 pairs from her that had white egg shell genes.

 

[KF0002]

They were lavender crele that a BYC friend created. I ended up getting 2 pairs from her that had white egg shell genes.

Wow lucky! If you ever decide to sell any eggs give me a holler on them.

 

[Chookwagn]

They look very much like my Browns. I have 3 brown chicks just hatched Ill get some pics over the weekend

 

[KF0002]

This hatch out of the Leghorn hens was another small hatch of just 5 chicks and produced all duckwing chicks also. The chicks appear to have a lot more red in them than any Speckled Sussex we have hatched. I am going to grow them all out and see how they turn out. Since Speckled Sussex are white legged, the white legs would be dominant over yellow. And if the chicks are half SS then they will be white legged. If the chicks are yellow legged they are Leghorns. Either way, I can use them as layers if they are mixed.

Here is the hatch from today. Very orangey red tones in them so they dont look like SS crosses to me. SS and Brown leghorns look very similar at hatch, and don’t have the bright orangey red tones that these chicks have.

 

[KF0002]

And the oldest group are 2 weeks old today and still yellow legged. So in my opinion, these are Leghorns and not Sussex crosses. Sussex are white legged by 2 weeks old.

 

[KF0002]

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They look very similar. Speckled Sussex have the same chipmunk markings as brown leghorn chicks too because both have a base of e+/e+. But none have had such orangey red tones as these chicks have.

 

[KF0002]

What say you @The Moonshiner ?

 

[KF0002]

Thoughts @Amer ? I am open minded to them being mixed, but it just doesn’t seem like they are.