Cream Legbar Crosses..

[Kalitunde]

Hello, so a quick question: what if the hen is a cream legbar and the rooster is black copper marans? How will the chicks look like, can they be sexed or not?

 

[Estrella]

Hello, so a quick question: what if the hen is a cream legbar and the rooster is black copper marans? How will the chicks look like, can they be sexed or not?

I am wondering this as well. Do they become sex linked or does the roo have to be the CLB for that to be possible?

 

[Finnie]

Hello, so a quick question: what if the hen is a cream legbar and the rooster is black copper marans? How will the chicks look like, can they be sexed or not?

I am wondering this as well. Do they become sex linked or does the roo have to be the CLB for that to be possible?

Any time you have a barred mother and a non- barred father, the chicks will be sexable. Look for a white (yellow down) dot on the head to indicate barring. Those will be males. The females will not have the dot.

If the father is barred, then he will give the barring gene to both the males and the females. (Not sexable.)

So the BCM rooster over the CL hen will give solid black daughters and black barred sons.

 

[Finnie]

Hey, picking this up a year later…so - a Silverudds Blue roo and a Creme Legbar hen - will their offspring be Easter Eggers? Love chicken genetics but finding it somewhat confusing… The breeds usually used to create EEs are not available here (Sweden), or are very hard to find (at least Araucanas). Or, should a Silverudds Blue be crossed with, for example, a Buff Orpington, to make EEs?

I guess it depends on how you define Easter Egger. Some people consider any mix breed that has (for the most part) the blue egg gene to be one. Other people say that EE is an actual breed that was created years ago with a specific formula. (Araucanas plus I don’t know what.)

I have also seen where Ameraucana people will call any purebred Ameraucana an Easter Egger if it lays any egg color other than true blue.

So I don’t know about how to recreate the actual EE breed from other breeds, but when I was making Cream Legbar mixed breed chicks, I called them “Easter Leggers”.

I think if I was crossing a blue egg breed with an Orpington, I would call it a green egger.

 

[Estrella]

I guess it depends on how you define Easter Egger. Some people consider any mix breed that has (for the most part) the blue egg gene to be one. Other people say that EE is an actual breed that was created years ago with a specific formula. (Araucanas plus I don’t know what.)

I have also seen where Ameraucana people will call any purebred Ameraucana an Easter Egger if it lays any egg color other than true blue.

So I don’t know about how to recreate the actual EE breed from other breeds, but when I was making Cream Legbar mixed breed chicks, I called them “Easter Leggers”.

I think if I was crossing a blue egg breed with an Orpington, I would call it a green egger.

Finnie, thank you! Chicken genetics is so interesting, I wish I had more knowledge. I have a gorgeous Buff O male whom I breed with Olive Eggers (from BCM + CL) and they produce the best birds, really cold hardy, calm and lay beautiful light green eggs in different shades. Here are some of the offspring and eggs (the pink egg is PL), they just started laying.

 

[McChooky]

Hello, so a quick question: what if the hen is a cream legbar and the rooster is black copper marans? How will the chicks look like, can they be sexed or not?

A solid color rooster will make sex links