Can you get a blue bird from a Crested Cream Legbar?

[donrae]

Okay, the thread on getting blue birds from different breeds mixing black and splash made me start wondering. I understand the b/b/s thing, I'm just not familiar enough with legbars to know if it would work with them, not sure what their base color is. Would breeding either a male or female CCL to a splash bird of another breed give you blue birds? Not worried about barring at all.

 

[fosterson]

Okay, the thread on getting blue birds from different breeds mixing black and splash made me start wondering. I understand the b/b/s thing, I'm just not familiar enough with legbars to know if it would work with them, not sure what their base color is. Would breeding either a male or female CCL to a splash bird of another breed give you blue birds? Not worried about barring at all.

I believe that Crested Cream Legbars are barred + a dilution gene instead of barred + blue gene, if that makes any sense. Both can produce a 'blue' bird, but they get there via different roads.