The Rhodebar thread! - Page 2

if you change out the leghorn male with the rir male, will the chicks still be black unbarred females and black barred cockerels?

Yes the F1s will be Black sex-links= Black and white barred males and black females with red leakage in the head,neck, and chest areas some more than others.

Jeff

so how does the cream legbar lay a blue egg?

Only the Crested Cream Legbars will lay Blue Eggs.

Chris

I will see what I can do on that chart.

Chris

Here ya go some interesting info:
http://www.creamlegbar.co.uk/

Jeff

harislau.co.uk/ :

The Cream Legbar differs from the Gold Legbar and Silver Legbar which lay cream or white eggs in two ways; firstly it lays eggs with blue shells, and secondly it has a crest or head tuft, characteristics inherited from 'blue-egged fowl of Chile': it would probably have been better if the Cream Crested Legbar had been given a different name!

The Cream Crested Legbar was originally developed from the white egg laying Leghorn, and so generally lays a blue shelled egg; however the Barred Rock, which lays a tinted egg, also played a part in the creation of the breed so it is not unusual for some Cream Legbars to lay light blue/green/olive eggs. The Breed Standard includes a range of egg colours and strains of Cream Legbar may lay a mixture of egg colour, this indicates that either rigorous selection for blue egg colour has not been carried out, or that they are not a pure strain - the purest strains will lay predominantly blue eggs.

http://www.harislau.co.uk/autosexing-legbar.htm

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Originally Posted by britannic rare breeds 

AKA Crested Legbar

The Cream Legbar is a unique breed, differing from the original Legbar in being created with the addition of the Araucana, leading to the production of blue eggs.

Cream Legbars were created accidentally in 1939 by Michael Peace who was trying to improve the productivity of the original Gold Legbar by crossing with a utility white leghorn. Two off-white pullets from this crossing were kept and bred to a Gold Legbar cockerel. From the offspring of this mating one of the cockerels produced cream coloured chicks. The male and female chicks were noticeably different in colour. These cream coloured birds were in turn bred to cream Araucanas owned by Professor Punnett. In time,The Cream Legbar a crested, blue egg laying, auto-sexing, breed was selected.

The crest is a tuft of feathers on the crest of the head behind the comb and is a feature derived from the Araucana.
The breed was standardised by the Poultry Club of Great Britain in 1958.
They are now the most common auto sexing breed and widely used by hobbyists for their blue eggs. Unfortunately the colour of the egg varies from pale green to pale blue depending on strain.  Careful selection for high production and an even pale blue egg is required. Good shaped pale blue eggs such as seen in many bred for exhibition birds does not necessarily mean prolific egg laying ability!

http://www.britannicrarebreeds.co.uk/breedinfo/chicken_legbar.php

Chris