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    Cream Legbar that lays a CREAM colored egg??!?

    Well, I’m making the best of things. Turns out, I actually love the creamy color of the egg my Legbar girl lays - it’s a very smooth eggshell, solid color- not patchy, faded or chalky and the color is very clear and bright. I love having it in my egg basket, it’s very easy to identify and gives...
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    Cream Legbar that lays a CREAM colored egg??!?

    Somehow I missed seeing your message, my apologies! What a great idea to test just hatched chicks!!
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    South Carolina

    Yup, be happy to sell you some chicks! It appears I can’t stop hatching. lol. I am loading up an incubator tomorrow with a variety of eggs. 😄
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    South Carolina

    Hello from Chester, SC! Anybody here have show/breeding quality Svart Honas or Silverrudds Blue? I’m looking for hatching eggs. FWIW- I currently have Lavender & Black Ameraucana, Cream Legbar, a confetti mix of Blue/Green Eggers and will be setting up breeding pens for my Chocolate Orpington...
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    Getting Guineas to go in the coup at night.

    Once you get them trained, with lights, treats, a call word, a set routine of when you give treats, high roosting bars...just TRY to keep them away from the coop. Lol.
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    The Genetics of Temperament - Anecdotal Notebook

    Thanks, I appreciate your thoughts. Makes sense on the team bullying. I just brought back a rooster from the bachelor pad and he’s a dream boat of a roo. Has a harem of hens following him everywhere, he tidbits constantly and slowly struts around with his chest as puffed out as possible. What a...
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    The Genetics of Temperament - Anecdotal Notebook

    Gotcha, thank you for sharing! I’m definitely going to be watching out for this behavior. I did have two 5-6 month cockerels that were starting to tag team chase their hatchmate pullets and forcibly mate with one helping hold the pullet for the other guy. The older hens would give them what for...
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    The Genetics of Temperament - Anecdotal Notebook

    I love that you cull for Roos mating young pullets! I didn’t know that was an inheritable trait. It sure bothers me when I see that and creates too much stress in the flock so I will pull the Roos when they start doing that and put them in the bachelor pad to hopefully grow up. I had one roo...
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    Sex linked Olive Egger

    Cream Legbar Hens have just the one barring gene, but it’s sex linked to her sons so you can use them with solid color roosters (the darker the better) to have sex linked chicks; the boys will have the white dot on the head, the girls will not. 😊 It’s the Rooster that has 2 barring genes so ALL...
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    Cream Legbar that lays a CREAM colored egg??!?

    That is definitely the plan! Ugh. I do have a hen without a crest, I just wasn’t going to use her for breeding (her egg is also a very pale ice blue). But since having that no crested girl, it stands to reason the chances are high that one of the others with a crest is still carrying the...
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    how much should i sell polish/easter egger chicks for?

    If $8 for the Polish/ee cross feels right and fair to you, then go for it. You can always offer discounts for multiple purchases, friends only special or a flash sale if you haven’t sold all of them. If you have quality looking parents that’s a plus too. Include their photos when posting the...
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    Cream Legbar that lays a CREAM colored egg??!?

    Good points on the examples of the other “wrong” genes, thank you for the that! For some reason I thought (hoped? 🤷🏼‍♀️) egg color was different in a purebred and that it was only depth of color you would select for in a blue laying breed. It’ll be great to find out. It sure would be nice if...
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    Sex linked Olive Egger

    Any solid colored (non-barred) roo with your barred CLB hen will produce sex linked chicks- the boys will have a white dot on their head and the girls will not. And the darker the roo the more obvious to see the white dot on the chicks.
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    Cream Legbar that lays a CREAM colored egg??!?

    Interesting. That sounds like it’s a more common thing. I know that when you start crossing birds, like to get Olive Eggers there will be some that lay brown eggs, but I didn’t know that wrong egg color was possible in a purebred breed. My chicken breeding newbie-ness is showing apparently...
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    Cream Legbar that lays a CREAM colored egg??!?

    Well, I was hoping to hear it was some kind of fluke genetic anomaly that simply pops up at random....a white egg AND a pigment. Otherwise how could the breeder ‘not’ know?! But alas, no such luck. A test offers me some hope.👍🏼🤩🤞🏼 Thank you for the link!
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