Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[TinyBirds]

Nicalandia, check out the males from the same cross (Cream Legbar father x Buff-Laced Polish mother). There were two, nearly identical.





And when they were a little younger:

Reposting to add your male photos. Love them!

 

[chicken pickin]

Sorry I just found this thread and it's taking awhile to read it. I love the photos above and the ones of the buff laced boys from the cross also. I think the reason the girls are solid white looking is that they're really silver laced (incomplete) with dominant white added, making them appear solid white. Pretty cool! I wondered how that type of cross would look (other than just seeing it on the chicken calculator). The male offspring are buff laced because they got one gold gene (from their mom) but the females are all silver due to the dad being silver. Thanks for the pictures! I don't even have either of those breeds but love seeing other people's pictures on this forum. Thanks!!

Cream Legabrs are not silver based, they are gold based.

 

[normanack]

Sorry I just found this thread and it's taking awhile to read it.  I love the photos above and the ones of the buff laced boys from the cross also.  I think the reason the girls are solid white looking is that they're really silver laced (incomplete) with dominant white added, making them appear solid white.  Pretty cool!  I wondered how that type of cross would look (other than just seeing it on the chicken calculator).  The male offspring are buff laced because they got one gold gene (from their mom) but the females are all silver due to the dad being silver.  Thanks for the pictures!  I don't even have either of those breeds but love seeing other people's pictures on this forum.  Thanks!!

Thank you. They really are such pretty birds. As a bonus, the pullet I kept lays the prettiest pale blue eggs.

 

[OldChurchEggery1]

Looks like I might have an unintended Legbar cross with one of my Swedish Flower Hens.




It's only about 6 weeks old at this point, but I'll know for sure by the end of summer when it starts laying if it's a pullet.

Edited to add: I do have some intentional EE/Legbar crosses in the incubator. I thought it might be fun to have some bearded, muffed, and crested chickens laying blue eggs. Why not, really?

 

[nicalandia]

Looks like I might have an unintended Legbar cross with one of my Swedish Flower Hens.

Not possible, the bird you show has mottling, Mottling is recessive, legbars dont have mottling, so any cross with CLxSFH will result in non-mottled birds..the fact that your bird shows a crest is no indication of her having a legbar parent, as some the Swedish F. hens do have crest in them too

Close up of crested flower hen head:

 

[PetRock]

Not possible, the bird you show has mottling, Mottling is recessive, legbars dont have mottling, so any cross with CLxSFH will result in non-mottled birds..the fact that your bird shows a crest is no indication of her having a legbar parent, as some the Swedish F. hens do have crest in them too

That's interesting! I have a bunch of Pita Pinta/Cream Legbar chicks running around. They have been hatching black with some yellow but growing into black chicks with some brown. Pita Pintas are mottled and now I know why the chicks aren't. The oldest ones I have are 7 weeks so I don't know what they will look like fully grown. I do have a few that are crested!

 

[nicalandia]

That's interesting! I have a bunch of Pita Pinta/Cream Legbar chicks running around. They have been hatching black with some yellow but growing into black chicks with some brown. Pita Pintas are mottled and now I know why the chicks aren't. The oldest ones I have are 7 weeks so I don't know what they will look like fully grown. I do have a few that are crested!

its Science, once you get the hang of it its like predicting whats going to happen to an object nearing the even horizon of a black hole , in your case your Pita Pinta/CL cross will result in a all black(some barred depending on CL parent) but they will not be mottled

 

[MoonlightFarmCT]

Recently crossed my Green Fire Farm Cream Legbar hen with my Buff Brahama roo and was pleasantly surprised to see that the autosexing trait of the CL was passed on to the next generation. My goal with this cross was to have a blue egg layer with more fluff for the brutal Connecticut winters. Mission accomplished. Of the three that hatched, the cockerel looks the most like a CL but with feathered shanks and if course the autosexing white spot on his head and the two pullets, right now, look like they have Buff Brahama color. So it will be interesting to see how they feather out and what color their eggs will be.

 

[TinyBirds]

Sorry I didn't know they were gold. Are the females white then because of the cream gene? I don't know how that works.

 

[enola]

Recently crossed my Green Fire Farm Cream Legbar hen with my Buff Brahama roo and was pleasantly surprised to see that the autosexing trait of the CL was passed on to the next generation. My goal with this cross was to have a blue egg layer with more fluff for the brutal Connecticut winters. Mission accomplished. Of the three that hatched, the cockerel looks the most like a CL but with feathered shanks and if course the autosexing white spot on his head and the two pullets, right now, look like they have Buff Brahama color. So it will be interesting to see how they feather out and what color their eggs will be.

Their eggs will be green.

But, I wonder if they are sex-links instead of autosexing.......