Leghorns
We breed a variety of Leghorns here at Chick and Egg across large and bantam varieties. They are also one of the main breeds we have colour projects of, mostly bantam. We breed 12 different colours across large and bantam fowl.
White
Our whites are the best layers and best quality leghorns we breed. We have two different lines of white Leghorns currently. They lay medium to large white eggs.
Brown
Our browns are nearly as good layers and quality wise as the whites. We have birds from Peter Kettles line and most come out nice and dark.
Exchequer
Blue/Splash
Our Exchequers are our favourite colour of Leghorn white their beautiful spotted pattern! They are still a work in progress colour wise as we are trying to get whiter birds and the Ancona out of them but they are just as good layers as the whites!
Blue/Splash
Blue/Splash
After selling off our BBS group last season we are once again breeding them. We have a excellent pair of a blue rooster and splash hen from our original line. They lay the same as the whites and lay large eggs too.
Buff
Columbian/Buff Columbian
Our Buff leghorns are quite a rare colour here in NZ and are still a work in progress. They are good layers but would be the worst out of all of our leghorns however they make up for it with their vibrant buff colouring!
Columbian/Buff Columbian
Columbian/Buff Columbian
Our Columbian/Buff Columbian leghorns are also still a work in progress as they still have remanence of the Plymouth rock used to create them. From this group you get roughly 50% of each colour. Our next generation of birds are more leghorn shaped.
White Bantam
Our white bantams are excellent quality and excellent little layers. We have bred them since 2023 and have found them to be the most economical breed of poultry we've ever had.
White Frizzle Bantam
Our white frizzles are in their fourth generation and are pretty much their shape wise. They are bred to our smooth feather white hens so each generation are more and more pure.
Pile Bantam
Pile Bantam
Our pile leghorn bantams are still in progress to get a full pile group as we are yet to breed a pure pile adult hen. This season though we have a pile rooster over white split red duckwing hens so should get 50% pile offspring. Pile is one of our favourite colours so can't wait for a full group of them!
Blue Bantam
Golden Duckwing Frizzle Bantam
Pile Bantam
These guys popped out from a pile x last generations white frizzle somehow! We will be crossing them back to our pure white and pure white frizzles to get a rooster and frizzle line. The current hen is excellent quality except for some slate in her legs.
Golden Duckwing Frizzle Bantam
Golden Duckwing Frizzle Bantam
Golden Duckwing Frizzle Bantam
Another weird colour that popped out was golden duckwing. We will be crossing him back to a pile once we get some but currently he is in with a random coloured hen that popped out!
Blue Duckwing Frizzle Bantam
Golden Duckwing Frizzle Bantam
Golden Duckwing Frizzle Bantam
Blue duckwing was another colour that popped out. We will put them over some other colors to see what we get but it is quite an interesting colour!
Laced Leghorns
This season we will be starting work on creating laced Leghorns. We will be starting off with a longish and smaller blue laced red wyandotte that has a single comb. We will also be adding a buff columbian leghorn hen as well as a buff columbian Leghorn x silver laced Wyandotte hen. These will be crossed over a leghorn shaped single comb Wyandotte rooster we have selected. We will focus on shape and laying to start with and all laced birds are well laced so that will be a focus later on.
Blue Exchequer
This season we will also be starting work on creating blue Exchequer. we will be using our lightest black exchequer hen over a splash leghorn cockerel. This should create 100% blue offspring. These will be crossed back to the light exchequer hen which will give us 25% blue exchequer. Using the splash should also improve the white in the exchequer so the black exchequer hens may be used in the exchequer line.