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Since you live in California, you can get a free necropsy from http://cahfs.ucdavis.edu/ If there is a lab close enough you can take the bird in. If not, call them and get information on shipping--see if they still let you use the UCD discounted Fedex account. It is the best way to see what...

That is a nice looking pullet!

If there is a green tint to the egg, then there are some brown genes present in the CCLs. One of the problems you can get is suppressor genes for brown, so the CL may have some. The eggs will be a darker green but may not be as dark as expected because of the suppressor genes and the brown...

CLs can have crazy combs sometimes. Go by the wattles more so--and color. If they are getting pink early then they will be cockerels. The one at the bottom middle may be a pullet.

It depends on if the CCL had one or two blue egg shell genes. The blue gene is dominant, so if two are present in a parent, the eggs will be blue to green, depending on what brown coating genes are present--the brown coating genes are more complicate.

Hens can get spur nubs. I read about some breeders that though they could tell gender at hatch buy feeling for a spur bump. It does not work because all chicks will have a bump.

Thanks for posting the link!

There appear to be modifiers to the rose genes and a Dv gene pair too: Quote:

For the rose, straight and pea combs.

Yes, It is Walnut that is dominant, not rose comb. It is in the chart I posted back several posts.

Genetics questions early on a Saturday! It is not as simple as that: See, rose comp is RRpp. Pea comb is rrPp and you can get it from different parents. You can have an Rrpp rose comb parent and then have pea comb offspring with the correct mating. If you notice, single comb is Rrpp, so...

Your welcome! Post pictures when they hatch.

No is the quick answer. The offspring have to inherit at least one blue egg shell gene. The brown egg layer will have no blue egg shell genes and the CL may only have one. Offspring that inherit two white egg shell genes will lay a brown egg. If the CL is double blue than all of the egg will...

They probably were trying to help with frostbite-or to increase lay rate. Cream legbars to well in the heat. It may or may not be because of the comb. The hens do not have a huge comb though.

Cream Legbars have straight combs as a breed characteristic. If they have a pea comb, they have araucana in them.

If they have pea combs then no, not Cream Legbars.

Wing sexing by feathers can work if the feather growth rate is sexlinked. It is a type of sexlinked trait. It does not usually work with Australorps. If the Cockbirs was an Australorp and the hens were Cream Legbars, you will have black sexlinks--boys will be barred and have a white head spot...

They are very nice. I like real EEs. They are kind of fighting over the name. Some of them change the spelling slightly. The odd one to me is when breeders call a bird that does not fit into the SOP an EE. It is really a non standard ameraucana and is not like an EE from a hatchery. EEs from...

Great information!

This is what they originally looked like, not too different from EEs