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Hard to really judge the hen from that photo but really unless it’s a project the only colors we have are Cream and Crele and really they just made up the Crele because Greenfire bought poor quality birds in their first THREE imports that didn’t have the Cream gene and so many people bought them...

Yeah…if they aren’t blue eggs then they aren’t pure. Now…at the end of the season if the birds have been laying eggs like crazy the blue can get very light in color but compared to a white egg you’ll still see the blue. When I first tried to buy Cream Legbar eggs on eBay the few eggs that...

If the Cream Legbar hen was a pure Cream Legbar then she’s be homozygous for the blue egg gene (two copies) and all her offspring would have one copy (heterozygous) and lay an egg with a blue shell (then a slight brown coating from the Rhode Island Red would make the eggs look light green).

Unfortunately when you use a Cream Legbar male none of those chicks are sex linked despite those white dots. White dots indicate barring and if you use a pure Cream Legbar male he has one copy of the barring gene on each of his Z sex chromosomes so he gives a copy of that barring gene to every...

I had a weird mutation pop up recently. A few years back when I first got Cream Legbars my birds were young so I put them in with some Black Stars (black sex-link made from crossing a Rhode Island Red rooster with a Barred Plymouth Rock hen). The Cream Legbar cockerel matured early and mated...

I finally got a Lavender Laced bird with better lacing but it is still hard to see it. They tend to just look like a dirty Lavender...and this girl must be sleeping on a poop pile because she actually was dirty. Some of them have had blue legs and this girl has greenish legs. Their crests...

I'd love to see photos!

I didn't get the best photos but some of the black ones had head spots but not all and some of the brown ones had head spots but not all. The pair that I saved were the striped ones...one with more defined stripes and no head spot and one with blurry stripes and a good head spot. They DID turn...

I crossed a Cream Legbar rooster with a Black Star and this is what I got (sorry about the bad photos): Some were black and some were varying amounts of chipmunk striped brown. Some had head spots and some did not. I was told that the head spots would not correlate to sex at all.

Here's my oldest hen from my project that I mentioned above. She doesn't have the rose comb. And as a chick:

Someone above stated that they will all be barred. That may be right. I think that it is correct that the roosters have two barring genes. I crossed my old Cream Legbar rooster with some Black-Star hens (Rhode Island Red X Plymouth Barred Rock). I don't recall all of those chicks having a...

Female Cream Legbars carry the barring gene and crossing them with a Black-Copper Marans makes a sex-link (not auto-sexing) chick. They won't be chipmunk striped though (they will be black...see a few posts above). A pure Cream Legbar has two blue egg genes and will give one copy to any...

For me, I had a bunch of Cream Legbar hens that either didn't have crests or they didn't have good cream but still laid tons of nice blue eggs. I figured that I may as well make some olive eggers.

Yes! Sorry about that. If you do the cross the other way you still get chicks that look either way (and they will either look like Black-Copper Marans or be barred) but both sexes will have either pattern. You won't get the sex-linked barring pattern unless the hen is the Cream Legbar...

If you are using black-copper Marans the pullet chicks are solid black on the top of their heads and the cockerels will have a tiny white spot. The pullets feather out like a black-copper Marans hen and the cockerels feather out barred.

Here are two boys (white on the head) and a girl of the sex-link cross of a Black-Copper Marans Rooster and a Cream Legbar Hen. The girl is in my hand on the right.

Yes, they just won't be sex-link chicks. The eggs should look the same.

If you use a Cream Legbar hen you can use her like you would a barred hen to make a sex-link cross. So...I think it depends what you use as a rooster. You can't use dominant white, for example. I have two Cream Legbar hens in with my Black-Copper Marans rooster and I get sex-link Olive...

Here's the inside of that shell with the membrane peeled back so you can see the blue.