I recently bought some Opal Legbar hatching eggs. Well today they hatched and I ended up with a few Opal colored chicks, but mostly Cream Legbar color and even a black chick with a yellow spot on its head. They all came from blue eggs. Am I wrong to assume that an opal Legbar crossed with an...
I have hatched some eggs from Cream legbar eggs, and have easily sexed most of the chicks. This one is a little tricky to me. It has the markings on the eyes, and no obvious white spot on the head, but the stripe down the back isn’t very pronounced. I am thinking girl, but wanted to come here...
Thank you. I find chicken genetics so interesting, but super confusing! If I use my copper maran roo as the father, does that mean the head spotting will be males?
I have a F2 Olive Egger Rooster who was bred from a French Copper Maran Roo and a Cream legbar hen. I bred him with another F2 Olive Egger from the same parents. The babies that just hatched all of them but 2 have white spots on their heads. Would this cross breeding still produce true sex...