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  1. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    This. The result of brown/isabelle =100% visual brown/ split isabelle
  2. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    You can try unwatching and watching the thread again. Another option is to look at the watches threads page. I’ve learned not to depend on alerts.
  3. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I'm imagining you saying that with the same head toss your avatar is doing. :gig :lau :gig:lau It's quite the mental image
  4. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Most hatchery orps are american.
  5. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I'm trying to upload pics but it isn't working tonight. I'll have to try tomorrow.
  6. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I like WV. Particularly out in the middle of nowhere, where I live.
  7. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    What's up with Ugly bird's comb? Did he get frostbite?
  8. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Most hatcheries increase that number so that their fertility is higher. The higher the fertility, the more chicks they can sell.
  9. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Looks like somewhere between 1 cock to 5-7 hens. Not completely ridiculous numbers.
  10. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Lavender is recessive and brown is dominant, which makes this more complicated. Is. bred to brown produces all birds that look just like any other brown leghorn but have the hidden gene for lavender. So Brown split to lavender. if you breed splits to splits you get 25% lavender, 50% splits (that...
  11. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Thats how they started with the Isabella leghorns (but with Lavender Orps). I don't know if the heartiness issues came from the lavender coloring or the orps they used.
  12. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Guess how old I am. I used to watch George Carlin on a PBS Kid's show.
  13. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Between chickens, guineas, and my pigs I order a ton of feed every 2-3 months. The pigs only get about 200-250lbs of the ton though (I love American Guinea Hogs, I feed them mostly on kitchen scraps).
  14. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I considered getting a few from cackle a few years ago but they never had any available even though they showed the pics on the website.
  15. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Aren't a lot of people having trouble with the Isabella's that are commercially available out there? I thought I heard something about a terminal gene.
  16. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    I'm trying to cut my numbers down to 50 or less over the winter. Ideally 25 ish.
  17. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Is it possible to have mixed up eggs? I know it's happened to me.
  18. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Is there a difference between barred and cuckoo?
  19. Redhead Rae

    The Moonshiner's Leghorns

    Ah, I thought a double dose of dominant white hid everything.
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