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post #11 of 14
4/19/13 at 4:53pm

Those are neat looking birds.  So the second generation cross out of the dominant white gave you leakage of black feathers here and there?  I would also guess crossing them back into Leghorn will bring back the completely white bird.  I like their look!

I bought a Silkie to be a broody because my small Styrofoam incubator doesn't like my wood heated house.  However she is so cute I want more... Chicken Math Strikes again!

 

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post #12 of 14
4/19/13 at 5:35pm
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Those are neat looking birds.  So the second generation cross out of the dominant white gave you leakage of black feathers here and there?  I would also guess crossing them back into Leghorn will bring back the completely white bird.  I like their look!

 

 

I suspect that the leakage is coming from the girls not the legbar male

 

as I have the same mums (hens) crossed with Lavender Araucana and out of 12 eggs all the chicks are white with leakage of black and that could only be the hens as LAVs have no black

 

what im gonna do is get rid of the leghorns and get new ones from a different breeder

 

then cross those leghorns with a MALE white Legbar

 

hopefully that will help clean them up

5 Red Star, 1 Speckledy, 3 Col Blacktails, 3 White Star [Leghorn]  1 Amber Star - All Hybrid Pullets, 1 French Copper Marans - Roo, 2 Lavender Araucanas - Roos, 3 Cream Legbars - 2 Pullets & 1 Roo

 

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5 Red Star, 1 Speckledy, 3 Col Blacktails, 3 White Star [Leghorn]  1 Amber Star - All Hybrid Pullets, 1 French Copper Marans - Roo, 2 Lavender Araucanas - Roos, 3 Cream Legbars - 2 Pullets & 1 Roo

 

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post #13 of 14
4/19/13 at 8:24pm
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Those are neat looking birds.  So the second generation cross out of the dominant white gave you leakage of black feathers here and there?  I would also guess crossing them back into Leghorn will bring back the completely white bird.  I like their look!

 

 

I suspect that the leakage is coming from the girls not the legbar male

 

as I have the same mums (hens) crossed with Lavender Araucana and out of 12 eggs all the chicks are white with leakage of black and that could only be the hens as LAVs have no black

 

what im gonna do is get rid of the leghorns and get new ones from a different breeder

 

then cross those leghorns with a MALE white Legbar

 

hopefully that will help clean them up


Um.. One copy of the Lav gene gives you black.  So your Lavender Auracanas (which carry TWO copies of Lav) are black if crossed to anything except another Lavender Auracana...  We do it over here with the Ameraucanas and breed them to black on purpose to get what is called a "split".  It carries only one copy of Lav - so it looks black.  Lavender is recessive - it hides unless there are two copies.

 

If you cross Dominant White (leghorns) with Recessive White (Legbar 2copies)( I believe.. not sure on this, does anybody know if the white Legbar carry dominant white or recessive white?)  you might get the exact same effect - white chicks with black leakage carrying one copy of recessive white.  However - if you cross them back to the father then you would get the two copies of recessive white back and the chicks would be all white again.  So it would work - with the hens you have - and a white male Legbar.

I bought a Silkie to be a broody because my small Styrofoam incubator doesn't like my wood heated house.  However she is so cute I want more... Chicken Math Strikes again!

 

ChickNmamma's Swap Page

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I bought a Silkie to be a broody because my small Styrofoam incubator doesn't like my wood heated house.  However she is so cute I want more... Chicken Math Strikes again!

 

ChickNmamma's Swap Page

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post #14 of 14
4/20/13 at 11:47am
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Ah yes the Punnet square

I'm gonna remate them should clean them up

But to be honest unlike my mutts they look like Dalmatians hehe

Got some pics going up in a bit on the EE Braggers thread



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5 Red Star, 1 Speckledy, 3 Col Blacktails, 3 White Star [Leghorn]  1 Amber Star - All Hybrid Pullets, 1 French Copper Marans - Roo, 2 Lavender Araucanas - Roos, 3 Cream Legbars - 2 Pullets & 1 Roo

 

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5 Red Star, 1 Speckledy, 3 Col Blacktails, 3 White Star [Leghorn]  1 Amber Star - All Hybrid Pullets, 1 French Copper Marans - Roo, 2 Lavender Araucanas - Roos, 3 Cream Legbars - 2 Pullets & 1 Roo

 

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