To Make An Olive Egger......Legbar?????

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The main advantage with using pea comb blue egg layers for these kinds of crosses is to track the inheritance of the blue egg gene when you get to F2+ generations. If you use single comb blue egg layers you can really only breed the initial cross because there is no way to tell if the F2 generation is likely to have the blue gene or not.
 
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Here is my cream leg bar/barred rock. No eggs yet so dont know color..
 
acire67 said:
Thanks. Guess I'll have to be patient.
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acire67 said:
These chicks hatched out over the weekend. CL roo and BC Marans hen. Some have large spots on their heads and some have much smaller spots. Am I grasping at straws, or are the ones with the smaller head spots female?
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I am very interested in how this turned out for you. I had Cream Legbar Roo or Bielefelder Roo X Blue Marans hen chicks born last Friday. They look exactly like my Cuckoo Marans chicks. All have a white spot, 6 are black and 4 are silvery black. I wonder if they are also autosex like the cuckoos with the pullets being the darker black chicks. Did you notice this with your chicks? What did you end up with?
 
RedBanks said:
I am very interested in how this turned out for you. I had Cream Legbar Roo or Bielefelder Roo X Blue Marans hen chicks born last Friday. They look exactly like my Cuckoo Marans chicks. All have a white spot, 6 are black and 4 are silvery black. I wonder if they are also autosex like the cuckoos with the pullets being the darker black chicks. Did you notice this with your chicks? What did you end up with?
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If you breed the other way around - meaning Blue Marans cockerel x Legbar (barred) hens you will produce auto-sexing chicks, essentially Black Sex Link chickens. Boys will be barred, girls will be black in that cross. Breeding Barred Cockerels to non-barred hens produces both barred and non-barred hens and cockerels and typically the barring effects the down color at hatch to determine gender.
 
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Illia said:
Umm, Cuckoo Easter Eggers, Cuckoo Araucanas, and Crele Penedesencas too ;) All those can create Olive Eggers sexable at hatch and the egg color will still be just as good.
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Crele pendenesca are sexable at hatch!? Or did I mistake that
 
Chris09 said:
Just keep in mid that ONLY the Creasted Cream Leg bars lay Blue eggs, regular Legbars do not lay Blue eggs. ;)

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Hi! Don't know how the rest of the conversation went, but I had a beautiful non-crested cream legbar hen that laid light blue eggs in the beginning that deepened as she aged. One of her eggs is in my avatar. Now if only I could take care of that hawk that ate her!!!

okay so here is my question: If it is a male Crested Cream Legbar X female lavender Orpington, will one get Olive eggers? Or green eggs? Or something else? Or you got to be kidding??? :D
 
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I was just on Meyer Hatchery looking at Olive Eggers. There were a couple reviews that their Olive Eggers were laying blue or brown eggs. Are F1 crosses unpredictable?

I have a Blue Copper Marans rooster over a Cream Legbar hen that I plan on selling chicks as Sexlinked Olive Eggers. Should F1s all lay Olive eggs?

Also, for fun I have a F1 Wybar hen (CLxGLW) who lays a green egg in with my Marans. Would their of spring be unpredictable in egg color?
 
Amy King Hanson said:
I was just on Meyer Hatchery looking at Olive Eggers. There were a couple reviews that their Olive Eggers were laying blue or brown eggs. Are F1 crosses unpredictable?

I have a Blue Copper Marans rooster over a Cream Legbar hen that I plan on selling chicks as Sexlinked Olive Eggers. Should F1s all lay Olive eggs?

Also, for fun I have a F1 Wybar hen (CLxGLW) who lays a green egg in with my Marans. Would their of spring be unpredictable in egg color?
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Every olive egger that I bred on purpose to be an olive egger was. I used a cream legbar rooster (The opposite of you. Should have same results without the sex links) with black copper marans hens, welsumers and blue splash marans and all female offspring lay olive eggs. The ones with the welsummer mothers were sexable at hatch just like a purebred welsummer and they mostly lay speckled olive eggs. What surprised me was I had a mixed breed hen steal a nest and hatch her own chicks. Knowing the genes she carried I would have expected a paler green egg and I'm getting olive eggs there which suprises me.
I think your F1 Wybar with a marans should lay a dark olive but sometimes depending on the mix I and some of my friends who play with colored eggs have been surprised.
 

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