Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[DeborahSfbay]

Hello,

I'm new to BYC, I have two Bielefelder pullets, two Cream Lebar Pullets and an unrelated Cream legbar Roo 10 weeks old. I plan to breed them next spring and I've tried to read most of the Legbar cross posts but it's easy to get things mixed up with so much information. I have a few questions.

1) Since the Bielefelders are also autosexing my guess is the cross chicks will also be autosexing and lay light greenish eggs? Will their size and their egg size be between the Legbar and Bielefelder? Will I have a 50/50 shot at them being crested? Does anyone have any pictures they can share and experience with this cross. The legbars are pretty but I really love the personality of the Bielefelders,

2) I'd also like to get a few other pullets I can mate with the Roo to produce a sex link chick. I understand from reading most any chicken with silver baring will produce a sex link, such as a silver laced Wyandotte or silver cochin. What about a Cuckoo Marans? Will I get a sexlink from that combination. Many of my friends want an olive egger and want me to get black copper marans but from what I've read the CR roo over the BCM hen will not produce a strong sexlink chick? I've only seen pictures of olive egg but my guess is there won't be a big difference in color between the BCM and Cuckoo cross ? Anyone have any suggestions on a good cross that will produce an olive type egg and still be a sexlink?

3) Any other advice on a nice sexlink type chick would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Deborah
(San Francisco Bay area)

 

[enola]

You use the barred hen to create sex links. PM niclandia he can explain it better than I can.

 

[chicken pickin]

Hello,

I'm new to BYC, I have two Bielefelder pullets, two Cream Lebar Pullets and an unrelated Cream legbar Roo 10 weeks old. I plan to breed them next spring and I've tried to read most of the Legbar cross posts but it's easy to get things mixed up with so much information. I have a few questions.

1) Since the Bielefelders are also autosexing my guess is the cross chicks will also be autosexing and lay light greenish eggs? Will their size and their egg size be between the Legbar and Bielefelder? Will I have a 50/50 shot at them being crested? Does anyone have any pictures they can share and experience with this cross. The legbars are pretty but I really love the personality of the Bielefelders,

2) I'd also like to get a few other pullets I can mate with the Roo to produce a sex link chick. I understand from reading most any chicken with silver baring will produce a sex link, such as a silver laced Wyandotte or silver cochin. What about a Cuckoo Marans? Will I get a sexlink from that combination. Many of my friends want an olive egger and want me to get black copper marans but from what I've read the CR roo over the BCM hen will not produce a strong sexlink chick? I've only seen pictures of olive egg but my guess is there won't be a big difference in color between the BCM and Cuckoo cross ? Anyone have any suggestions on a good cross that will produce an olive type egg and still be a sexlink?

3) Any other advice on a nice sexlink type chick would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Deborah
(San Francisco Bay area)

I believe you are correct that if you cross a Bielefelder and Cream Legbar, chicks will still be autosexable at hatch. If your CL rooster is crested he should produce crested chicks.

To get a Olive Sexlink your best bet in my opinion would be to cross a Cream Legbar hen to a Black Copper Marans rooster. They will create Black Sexlinks and lay olive eggs.

You can not cross a Cuckoo Marans or any other barred chicken to a Cream Legbar to get a Sexlink because with both parent being barred the head spot will show up on both sexes.

 

[DeborahSfbay]

Thanks,

Yes my boy is crested so that's good news. I only have the Cream Legbar Roo so I'll need to breed him to a hen. So breeding him to a BCM hen will not produce a sex like just a BCM roo to CL hen?

I thought crossing the CL Roo to any bared chicken would produce a sexlink?


Deborah

 

[chicken pickin]

Thanks,

Yes my boy is crested so that's good news. It looks like I got the genitics of mating to a BCM confused. Will the Legbar roo and BCM hen produce sexlink babies produce white spot on their head? I raised a few BCM pullets for a friend earier this year (from day old to 6 weeks). They all had solid black heads, not even a small spot as I remember. There was no BCM male for comparison.

All pure BCM chicks have black heads at hatch, male and female.

If you were to cross a Cream Legbar rooster to a BCM hen the result would be ALL chicks would have a head spot. The rooster passes his barring gene to both sexes. Making both genders of this cross barred and unsexable.

To get a sexlink using this cross the hen needs to be the barred parent, its the barred hens that will pass the barring gene on to ONLY her sons, and the daughters will looks like the rooster that fathered them. In this case the female chicks will hatch black and grow up to be black with a copper color and maybe some copper on the head and chest. The Male chicks will hatch black with a white head spot and grow up to look similar to a barred rock, black and white barred, Im not sure if he would have red leakage in his shoulders.

 

[Kathryn173]

Does anyone know what this cockerel may be crossed with?
I think hes half legbar.




I hatched him myself from an egg that i got from a friend (she has moved away now and i've lost her number or i would call her and ask.) She also had so many different breeds i wouldnt know where to start thinking of which. His parents were probably pure, whatever breed they were. It was a pale blue egg and if he had been a hen he was to lay blue eggs, have a large red single comb and be a grey colour. He had a yellow dot on his head as a chick (the pic doesn't show it very well). I know hes very dark and a bit heavy. His legs would be more yellow if he would stay out on the grass but he only stays in the concrete yard, they used to be yellow, a few other birds are the same. He was to be a very quiet bird but i think hes just a bit more jumpy because of the way he has been raised, he wasn't handled much appart from the first week or so. Thats all i know about him.

 

[DeborahSfbay]

All pure BCM chicks have black heads at hatch, male and female.

If you were to cross a Cream Legbar rooster to a BCM hen the result would be ALL chicks would have a head spot. The rooster passes his barring gene to both sexes. Making both genders of this cross barred and unsexable.

To get a sexlink using this cross the hen needs to be the barred parent, its the barred hens that will pass the barring gene on to ONLY her sons, and the daughters will looks like the rooster that fathered them. In this case the female chicks will hatch black and grow up to be black with a copper color and maybe some copper on the head and chest. The Male chicks will hatch black with a white head spot and grow up to look similar to a barred rock, black and white barred, Im not sure if he would have red leakage in his shoulders.

Thank you so much.... Now I get it... it's the hen that passes the barring, I thought it was both. Forgive me on all the questions. I grew up on a 100 acre farm in Ohio and my family had mostly white leghorns and RIRs so I know a little about chickens. Now that me and my friends (we have a small co-op) live in the suburbs the early sexing is a major plus. I think I'll go with the cuckoo Marans (although everyone wants the BCM) for now. Again thanks so much this helped!

 

[chicken pickin]

Thank you so much.... Now I get it... it's the hen that passes the barring, I thought it was both. Forgive me on all the questions. I grew up on a 100 acre farm in Ohio and my family had mostly white leghorns and RIRs so I know a little about chickens. Now that me and my friends (we have a small coop) live in the suburbs the early sexing is a major plus. I think I'll go with the cuckoo Marans (although everyone wants the BCM) for now. Again thanks so much this helped!

Your welcome.

But its not just the hen that passes barring, the hens will only pass barring to her male offspring. Roosters will pass the barring onto both male and female offspring. Which is why barred males are not used to create sexlinks.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

not a legbar cross but here is a
crele penedesenca x silver ameraucana project

 

[KPenley]

Does anyone know what this cockerel may be crossed with? I think hes half legbar. I hatched him myself from an egg that i got from a friend (she has moved away now and i've lost her number or i would call her and ask.) She also had so many different breeds i wouldnt know where to start thinking of which. His parents were probably pure, whatever breed they were. It was a pale blue egg and if he had been a hen he was to lay blue eggs, have a large red single comb and be a grey colour. He had a yellow dot on his head as a chick (the pic doesn't show it very well). I know hes very dark and a bit heavy. His legs would be more yellow if he would stay out on the grass but he only stays in the concrete yard, they used to be yellow, a few other birds are the same. He was to be a very quiet bird but i think hes just a bit more jumpy because of the way he has been raised, he wasn't handled much appart from the first week or so. Thats all i know about him.

Totally a guess, but maybe a barred rock because of the body type, yellow legs, red earlobes?