Blue/Black Ameraucana × Cream Legbar

[LilJoe]

I've been searching for pictures of a Blue or Black Amerauacana ( rooster) × Cream Legbar (hen) cross. I'm hoping to do this cross in the near future, so I'm just wondering what to expect. I already know color, but will they have both a beard and a crest?
More info and (especially) pictures would be great!

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[Redhead Rae]

I think you'll get sexlinks as legbars are barred. Females will be black or blue (if you have a blue rooster, 50% will black and 50% will be blue), and males will be barred (and have a 50% chance of getting the blue gene as well if you have a blue rooster), I don't know how the Blue gene will interact with the barring.

 

[AlleysChicks]

Blue barring is pretty. This is my sex link cockerel. Dad was a blue Andalusian and Mom was a Barred rock. The barring was more pronounced later but I don’t have pics. But this will give you an idea of a blue sexlink cockerel.

 

[Redhead Rae]

Blue barring is pretty. This is my sex link cockerel. Dad was a blue Andalusian and Mom was a Barred rock. The barring was more pronounced later but I don’t have pics. But this will give you an idea of a blue sexlink cockerel.
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Did he have a visible dot on his head as a chick?

 

[AlleysChicks]

Did he have a visible dot on his head as a chick?

yes. It wasn’t as eye catching as it would be on a black chick but he did have one. He was a lighter blue chick.

 

[Redhead Rae]

yes. It wasn’t as eye catching as it would be on a black chick but he did have one. He was a lighter blue chick.

That is what I thought. The blue may “wash out” the barring dot on their heads making the sexlinking less useful.

 

[AlleysChicks]

That is what I thought. The blue may “wash out” the barring dot on their heads making the sexlinking less useful.

it was still there. And compared to the blue pullets it was night and day.

 

[LilJoe]

I think you'll get sexlinks as legbars are barred. Females will be black or blue (if you have a blue rooster, 50% will black and 50% will be blue), and males will be barred (and have a 50% chance of getting the blue gene as well if you have a blue rooster), I don't know how the Blue gene will interact with the barring.

That is what I thought. Thank you.

Blue barring is pretty. This is my sex link cockerel. Dad was a blue Andalusian and Mom was a Barred rock. The barring was more pronounced later but I don’t have pics. But this will give you an idea of a blue sexlink cockerel.
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Thank you. He is a gorgeous rooster
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What about beards and crests? Will all chicks have beards/muffs and some have crests?

 

[Redhead Rae]

That is what I thought. Thank you.


Thank you. He is a gorgeous rooster
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What about beards and crests? Will all chicks have beards/muffs and some have crests?

I think crests and beards/muffs are all dominant traits. So if the parents are homozygous for those traits all the chicks should get one copy of each. They should be quite the fancy chickens.

 

[AlleysChicks]

That is what I thought. Thank you.


Thank you. He is a gorgeous rooster
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What about beards and crests? Will all chicks have beards/muffs and some have crests?

Depends what is bred to what. I have some beards and I have birds that had a bearded parent but no beards themselves.