Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[lonnyandrinda]

Another interesting mix to show today- I have some exchequer leghorn hens and have test bred them to one of my young Cream Legbar roosters to test for his egg color genes. The first chicks hatched late last week. They are all barred (no surprise there) but I was surprised that they were all black! I thought that an exchequer leghorn carried mottled genes so I expected more of a mottled chick look (black back and white/yellow belly) or a wild-type look like a cream legbar. Will try to get a pic this afternoon.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

 

[Aronia]

Does anyone live near St. Catharines, ON?

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Not aware of anyone @Aronia good luck with your search!


Black Copper Marans roo over Cream Legbar hen:

 

[rebrascora]

Hi lonnyandrinda

I will be interested to hear how your exchequer leghorn/cream legbar hybrid turns out as I have male and females of both breeds.

I've also just acquired a black copper maran that will be running with my cream legbar cockerel, so I may try hatching some of her eggs when she starts laying (which I appreciate is the opposite of your hybrid in the picture) but I'm interested to try and get a deep olive egg. Are you expecting that pullet in the photo to lay olive eggs?

Regards

Barbara

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Hi lonnyandrinda

I will be interested to hear how your exchequer leghorn/cream legbar hybrid turns out as I have male and females of both breeds.

I've also just acquired a black copper maran that will be running with my cream legbar cockerel, so I may try hatching some of her eggs when she starts laying (which I appreciate is the opposite of your hybrid in the picture) but I'm interested to try and get a deep olive egg. Are you expecting that pullet in the photo to lay olive eggs?

Regards

Barbara

That's the hope.

I have an egg color problem in my Cream Legbar pen. I now know my CL rooster is heterozygous for blue egg gene Oo instead of OO as he should. I have a boy off him I really like that is the one bred to the white egg laying exchequer hen, I will raise about 15 pullets out of them and see what color eggs I get. That will tell me which blue egg genes he has. I need to go through and test mate EACH of my cream legbar hens against a non-blue egg layer to do the same test. Headache!

This pullet pictured comes from the cross, BCM roo X CL hen, which creates a sexlink that should be an olive egger (again depends on the blue egg genes which I am unsure of in my Cream Legbar hens). The way you are doing it, CL roo X BCM hen, creates a barred olive egger, not sexlinked though. I did some of these crosses last summer but do not have any photos. The color in the barring area was a brown/speckly kind of like this pullet. Some of them laid medium olive and some brown- because of my problem with my rooster's egg genes. If your CL roo is right then they will all lay olive.

 

[rebrascora]

Well I'm hoping to find out if my rooster is homozygous or heterozygous from my current batch of hybrids. If all the pullets are blue egg layers then I'm on a winner! (I think!!) They are still only 10 weeks, so I have a way to go yet to find out.

It's too long since I did genetics at school and my little brain is struggling to claw any of that learning back, so I'm loath to be sure of anything I think at the moment!

 

[ronott1]

Well I'm hoping to find out if my rooster is homozygous or heterozygous from my current batch of hybrids. If all the pullets are blue egg layers then I'm on a winner! (I think!!) They are still only 10 weeks, so I have a way to go yet to find out.

It's too long since I did genetics at school and my little brain is struggling to claw any of that learning back, so I'm loath to be sure of anything I think at the moment!

Egg shell color is easy. Brown coating is a bunch of Gene combinations but is dominant for any brown. The Genes darken and lighten the color.

Someone on another thread thinks that there may be a new gene out there for pink egg shell color and that it is recessive.

 

[KPenley]

We came home from vacation to find one of Barkies preoccupied...with over a dozen eggs in her little nest! She's in the hen house so there's no hope for them, but I still hate to take the eggs away from her lol.

 

[dretd]

I just hatched a batch of Welsummer eggs and thought I'd throw in two of my CL pullet eggs that were covered by me FaverollesX rooster prior to removing him and putting the Legbar boys in for the summer. Both chicks hatched. They are e(wh)/e+, S/s.

So any guesses on gender? Do y'all see white head spot? Last year I hatched some chicks with the same roo over my Welsummer hen which were also S/s and they were indistinguishable from male CL chicks (including what I thought looked like frosting on the back of the head)--but one of the crosses ended up as a girl. These should be Sexlinked since the CLs are barred and the Roo is not.

What sex are they (ie do you see a head spot)? Opinions and Guesses welcomed! I will post a progression as they mature.

Puffy Cheek, Chick 1 (this one is probably crested):



Frost Chick #2:

Update on these chicks.

They both turned out to be Silver incomplete Columbians in coloration. Both were S/s, E(Wh)/e+
Here is Puffy Cheek in a sea of Welsummer cockerels (I forgot to photograph Frost before I sold them):