I was looking up on Legbars from recently learning of them through an advert for fertile eggs on Gumtree (a classifieds site for Australia) and did a little research on them. Crossed with araucana, plymouth rock (barred rock) and brown leghorns, I figured it sounds like a dead easy breed to create from scratch, as I also own all three of those breeds.
Considering the leghorn part of the breed specifies to use a brown leghorn, really you should be able to use any colour correct? I wouldn't plan on making one to any standard, but couldn't people just make different coloured legbars by just changing the colour of the leghorn each time? Even with araucanas, what colour would you use? Lavender? Using a blue leghorn for example like I own would just make the result lacking the brown breast I'd assume.
Would also crossing a hybrid of one of the two (eg, barredXleghorn roo over pure araucana may give different results to leghornXaraucana roo over pure barred.)
Has anyone bothered making their own legbars from scratch? I've read of people making their own silver welbars from scratch to get the autosexing gene etc. The Legbar breed is incredibly rare in Australia and eggs were going for over $100 a doz. For such a rare breed that I have only seen advertised once, I wouldn't trust that they would all be unrelated hence if making the breed from scratch again would be a good idea to help the development of the breed improve.
If someone has done this, photos please? And is using a different coloured leghorn a good idea? Does anyone know how many generations it takes to make this breed? I am guessing a few breeding over the pures again would be in to make certain features more dominant.
Considering the leghorn part of the breed specifies to use a brown leghorn, really you should be able to use any colour correct? I wouldn't plan on making one to any standard, but couldn't people just make different coloured legbars by just changing the colour of the leghorn each time? Even with araucanas, what colour would you use? Lavender? Using a blue leghorn for example like I own would just make the result lacking the brown breast I'd assume.
Would also crossing a hybrid of one of the two (eg, barredXleghorn roo over pure araucana may give different results to leghornXaraucana roo over pure barred.)
Has anyone bothered making their own legbars from scratch? I've read of people making their own silver welbars from scratch to get the autosexing gene etc. The Legbar breed is incredibly rare in Australia and eggs were going for over $100 a doz. For such a rare breed that I have only seen advertised once, I wouldn't trust that they would all be unrelated hence if making the breed from scratch again would be a good idea to help the development of the breed improve.
If someone has done this, photos please? And is using a different coloured leghorn a good idea? Does anyone know how many generations it takes to make this breed? I am guessing a few breeding over the pures again would be in to make certain features more dominant.
