Cream Crested Legbar question:

[Crazy For Color]

My Cream Crested Legbar pullet is laying white eggs Do they start out white and change to blue after they've worked the kinks out? I've waited so long for blue eggs!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

If it is more than an egg or two, she'll probably always lay white eggs.
Where did you get the CCL?

 

[Crazy For Color]

She laid her third egg today. I got her from a breeder in Michigan. He said they are Greenfire Farm lines. Maybe there's still hope that I'll see blue eggs?

 

[ChickenCanoe]

There's always hope but don't hold your breath.

 

[andreanar]

Can you post a photo of her and her egg?

 

[GaryDean26]

The Blue egg gene is dominant. That means that only one blue egg gene is required to produce a blue egg. So if you have cock that has two blue egg gene 100% of the offspring will have blue eggs. If the cock only have one blue egg gene then you start to see problems. You may have 7 hens in the pen with two blue egg genes and one hen with one blue egg gene. If breed to that cock with one blue egg gene 7/8 of the offspring will be from hens that only produce blue egg offspring but 1/8 of the flock will produce 25% of their offspring laying white eggs. So...you start to get every 32nd hen laying white eggs. That is what you got. It is a throw back. Pretty rare but if you want blue eggs it is a big disappointment. If the flock has fewer hens or more than one hen that is only carrying one blue egg gene the probability goes up.

 

[andreanar]

The Blue egg gene is dominant. That means that only one blue egg gene is required to produce a blue egg. So if you have cock that has two blue egg gene 100% of the offspring will have blue eggs. If the cock only have one blue egg gene then you start to see problems. You may have 7 hens in the pen with two blue egg genes and one hen with one blue egg gene. If breed to that cock with one blue egg gene 7/8 of the offspring will be from hens that only produce blue egg offspring but 1/8 of the flock will produce 25% of their offspring laying white eggs. So...you start to get every 32nd hen laying white eggs. That is what you got. It is a throw back. Pretty rare but if you want blue eggs it is a big disappointment. If the flock has fewer hens or more than one hen that is only carrying one blue egg gene the probability goes up.

Great info!!

 

[GaryDean26]

I knew another lady in Michigan who got a Legbar laying white eggs 3-4 years ago. She was very disappointing. Like I said it is very rare since the blue eggs gene is dominant but a few others have got white egg laying Cream Legbars.