Brown X White

[peterp]

Firstly hello from Newcastle, Australia.

Now my question:

Could anyone please help me with the result of a brown leghorn rooster over white leghorn hens.

I am looking at putting a rather large Bantam Brown Rooster with large white hens as a bit of an experiment and am curious of the possible outcomes

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Peter

[boeqvet]

you should start to get something that looks like a pile, depends really though on what is being hidden by the dominant white. theoretically the white should knock out all of the black on your brown birds leaving the various shades of red and brown. sometimes though you can get blues thrown and i had some columbians produced from the same sort of mating this year. good luck!

[angie]

gday peter

you will get some pile and some blue reds , i put the brown roo over my white hen to make my pile and also got my blue reds your first hatch wont be full pile you have to put the girls back to the dad and the boys back to the mum and a brother and sister together from them you get your 2nd cross of pile and agin the girl back to the dad the boys back to the mum and the best brother and sister together
am in old junee nsw if you need any help
hugs angie

[danhonour]

IN 2001 TIM BALLENGER (WHITE LEGHORNS )AND DON SCHRIDER (LIGHT BROWN LEGHORNS )WERE CROSSED TO START PRODUCING SOME PYLES FOR THE BIG 2002 SHOW. (THEY DID SHOW A TRIO THAT YEAR.) THEY GOT BARREDS, SILVER, GOLDEN, BLACK, BIRCHEN, WHITE, LIGHT BROWN, DIRTY WHITE, AND RED PYLES OUT OF THE SECOND GENERATION. IN THE SECOND GENERATION THEY WENT BOTH WAYS (LIGHT MALE OVER DIRTY WHITE, DIRTY WHITE MALE OVER...). DON KEPT SOME OF THE LIGHT BROWN FEMALES AND TRIED STARTING A FAMILY, BUT FOUND THAT HIS LIGHT BROWNS WERE EQUAL TO OR BETTER, AND SO DROPPED THE EXPERIMENT IN 2004. Don shared this information with me,showing how a number of colors can crop out,all 100% Leghorn. This topic also points out Columbian and Blue Red.

Dan Honour

[danhonour]

(This is a reply Don Schrider sent me recently to explain a bit more fully.Dan Honour)

The cross we did was done both ways - Judge Will Burton from NC suggested that one way you get more Pyles and the other get fewer but better Pyles. That may be on bantams, but large fowl Leghorns have a dominate white gene.

We took the offspring of the crosses and picked the best male. He was from the White male over the Light female. We crossed him to the three or four best females from the Light male over the White female cross.

We hatched and this is what we got: Black, Birchen, Brown Red, Silver, Barred (Cuckoo), Red Pyle, dirty White, White, Light Brown, Golden, and Crele.


In conclusion, White and Brown Leghorns contain all the colors of Leghorn except Red and Buff - the Buff color coming from Cochins originally and the Red a product of Buff and Black.

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