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I am aware of the barring and leg color problem.I also looked at other breeds to see how they handled it.The problem is a few club members were very vocal about slate legs only.Since reasoning with them seemed to go nowhere I decided to try the impossible.I have produced a few and hope to stablize whatever genes allow it to happen.In reality the objectors could be out voted.They are in reality slate legs and the barring gene interfers with melanin in the leg color as it does in the feathers.Mottling and pied genes have the same effect.It seems reasonable to me to make allowences for genetic realities.Just reading the last few pages of this thread and I see lots of talk about the leg color. Just thought I'd point out that thanks to the barring, you will never be able to achieve the true slate legs with a barred bird. The white crested cuckoo polish was admitted to the standard with a clause on the leg color, they knew it was near impossible so they just have it as being white legs with as much blue tint as possible or something along those lines, I will have to double check the standard on the wording.
The projects are looking good everyone! I have cream legbars and they are not silver, they are cream light brown with the cream being a recessive. I crossed mine with normal leghorns to improve egg production and all offspring came out light brown (as expected) but if you were to add lavender to them, the hens would be like a lavender crele and I'd imagine if the creme works like I imagine, the roosters would have more of a silver lavender crele type color. Introducing them into the lav cuckoo project would bring in larger/possibly floppy combs, and also yellow legs again. But they do have great color, I just think it would set a project like this back further than needed.
Sorry about my long ranting ramble...