The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[Amer]

Here's my weird Silver Duckwing Ameraucana chicks.

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They look half wheaten?

 

[Amer]

my half wheaten, half duckwing chicks. Ignore the half wheaten half blacks.

 

[KF0002]

They look half wheaten?

I think so too. Which is fun, because there is a potential to get Silver Wheaten Ameraucanas. Silver Wheaten hens are so fire.

 

[The Moonshiner]

They're cute as hell though.

 

[KF0002]

I will take a pic of a silver wheaten Game hen we have at home. I think they are my favorite hen color right now.

 

[Amer]

View attachment 4104601View attachment 4104602my half wheaten, half duckwing chicks. Ignore the half wheaten half blacks.

Somehow by crossing my blue "Ameraucana" (obviously not) with a Buckeye I managed to get the same two EEs I produced years ago by crossing a wheaten Ameraucana with a bantam Dominique and large Welsummer. Now that I think about it, all four of these chicks are black based! What are the odds? A six percent chance! Weird.

 

[KF0002]

The biggest flaw with how my brain works is when I hyperfixate on an interest, I go big or go home and drive my husband a tad bit crazy. And now I want Leghorns in every color. Like Silver Wheaten, Mille Fleur, Crele, Silver Crele...

My husband may have me committed after all this.

 

[KF0002]

Somehow by crossing my blue "Ameraucana" (obviously not) with a Buckeye I managed to get the same two EEs I produced years ago by crossing a wheaten Ameraucana with a bantam Dominique and large Welsummer. Now that I think about it, all four of these chicks are black based! What are the odds? A six percent chance! Weird.

My luck is never that good. I can crank out chick after chick (or poult) and never get the ones I want when the odds are that slim.

 

[Amer]

My luck is never that good. I can crank out chick after chick (or poult) and never get the ones I want when the odds are that slim.

Well I never said I wanted non-blues. It's just weird is all...

 

[KF0002]

Well I never said I wanted non-blues. It's just weird is all...

Right, I get it. Yeah it would be my luck to get all the colors I didn't want. And then you produce the one holy grail chick or poult you have been trying so hard for... and then it dies.

Like one of the two Grizzled Chocolate Painted poults at home keeps flipping over on its back. Those never thrive and always have to be culled. It is called Flipping Poult Syndrome or something like that. Why it happens in some poults isn't well understood. The same thing happened with the one and only fully penciled Tiger Bronze poult I hatched last year. It just died though without the flipping.

And funny thing happened yesterday. We gave some chicks to a friend and my husband came one ace of giving him some of my Buffs. Like literally they were in the box and he was on his way out the door. I nearly had a heart attack when I found them in there. It's a good thing I double checked after he boxed them. I had leg banded the chicks that were going to our friend yellow and pink, based on which breed they were. My husband saw the red leg bands on 3 of my Buffs and thought it was pink. That could have been bad.