Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[ochochicas]

Here are my chicks. All 20 of them are 1/4 crested cream legbar. (None of my pure legbar eggs made it past day 10).



Half of the black chicks have head spots. Not sure if it means anything or not.

 

[RumAndCoconuts]

Wow, I've just read this entire thread from start to finish. It's taken about a week but completely fascinating.
What an array of gorgeous birds and egg colours you people have.
I'm just popping in to say hi as next spring I will be embarking on my first forray into the world of genetics exploration and from today I will be subscribed to this thread.

I've only ever had barnyard mutts as I live on a small isolated island with only those, but six weeks ago hatched out the following:

Crested Cream Legbar - 4 cockerels and 3 pullets
Rhodebar - 3 Cockerels and just one pullet that can be used for breeding (one died after hatch and another is just 'failing to thrive'
French Black Copper Marans - 5 of indeterminate sex....the waiting is killing me
Lavendar Ameraucana - again, 5 unidentified sex
Silver Sussex - 6 still waiting to sex, I have my suspicions but you know the old adage, don't count your roosters before they crow....or something....
Bielefelder - I have two Roos but have more eggs incubating due in a weeks time and I should get some pullets out of that.

I also have one and one only Silver laced Blue Wyandotte whom I am quite confident is a pullet

So, with the reading I've done here I'm sure I will be able to breed for some interesting mixes as well as keeping the best specimens for keeping a PB line. You will have to help me decide what to try!

Two quick questions though.
1) In sex linking for the silver gene. Do Silver sussex actually have a silver gene or are they just a colour variation?
2) I've read a lot of you saying you can actually breed for temperament? really? to what extent? This batch of six week old chicks I've spent a ridiculous amount of time with and they all think I'm their mum so they are actually more like kittens than chickens. They will push up under my hand for a petting and try to bury themselves in my neck. I thought this was just due to the time I have spent with them. Will this behaviour change when they mature?

Looking forward to having some great discussions.

 

[ChicKat]

Wow, I've just read this entire thread from start to finish. It's taken about a week but completely fascinating.
What an array of gorgeous birds and egg colours you people have.
I'm just popping in to say hi as next spring I will be embarking on my first forray into the world of genetics exploration and from today I will be subscribed to this thread.

I've only ever had barnyard mutts as I live on a small isolated island with only those, but six weeks ago hatched out the following:

Crested Cream Legbar - 4 cockerels and 3 pullets
Rhodebar - 3 Cockerels and just one pullet that can be used for breeding (one died after hatch and another is just 'failing to thrive'
French Black Copper Marans - 5 of indeterminate sex....the waiting is killing me
Lavendar Ameraucana - again, 5 unidentified sex
Silver Sussex - 6 still waiting to sex, I have my suspicions but you know the old adage, don't count your roosters before they crow....or something....
Bielefelder - I have two Roos but have more eggs incubating due in a weeks time and I should get some pullets out of that.

I also have one and one only Silver laced Blue Wyandotte whom I am quite confident is a pullet

So, with the reading I've done here I'm sure I will be able to breed for some interesting mixes as well as keeping the best specimens for keeping a PB line. You will have to help me decide what to try!

Two quick questions though.
1) In sex linking for the silver gene. Do Silver sussex actually have a silver gene or are they just a colour variation?
2) I've read a lot of you saying you can actually breed for temperament? really? to what extent? This batch of six week old chicks I've spent a ridiculous amount of time with and they all think I'm their mum so they are actually more like kittens than chickens. They will push up under my hand for a petting and try to bury themselves in my neck. I thought this was just due to the time I have spent with them. Will this behaviour change when they mature?

Looking forward to having some great discussions.

It's going to be so interesting to see just what you come up with. Isn't autosexing the greatest thing?
I think that Silver Sussex is both the color look and the underlying genetics - hopefully someone who is certain will chime in.

 

[dretd]

Quote: Hi Cherinbahamas, I'm pretty sure that the Silver Sussex is Silver based but on a Birchen (ER). So they should be sexlinkable but realize that the base down color in the chicks will be variable depending on the cross you make.

 

[Kaylish]

Wow, I've just read this entire thread from start to finish. It's taken about a week but completely fascinating.
What an array of gorgeous birds and egg colours you people have.
I'm just popping in to say hi as next spring I will be embarking on my first forray into the world of genetics exploration and from today I will be subscribed to this thread.

I've only ever had barnyard mutts as I live on a small isolated island with only those, but six weeks ago hatched out the following:

Crested Cream Legbar - 4 cockerels and 3 pullets
Rhodebar - 3 Cockerels and just one pullet that can be used for breeding (one died after hatch and another is just 'failing to thrive'
French Black Copper Marans - 5 of indeterminate sex....the waiting is killing me
Lavendar Ameraucana - again, 5 unidentified sex
Silver Sussex - 6 still waiting to sex, I have my suspicions but you know the old adage, don't count your roosters before they crow....or something....
Bielefelder - I have two Roos but have more eggs incubating due in a weeks time and I should get some pullets out of that.

I also have one and one only Silver laced Blue Wyandotte whom I am quite confident is a pullet

So, with the reading I've done here I'm sure I will be able to breed for some interesting mixes as well as keeping the best specimens for keeping a PB line. You will have to help me decide what to try!

Two quick questions though.
1) In sex linking for the silver gene. Do Silver sussex actually have a silver gene or are they just a colour variation?
2) I've read a lot of you saying you can actually breed for temperament? really? to what extent? This batch of six week old chicks I've spent a ridiculous amount of time with and they all think I'm their mum so they are actually more like kittens than chickens. They will push up under my hand for a petting and try to bury themselves in my neck. I thought this was just due to the time I have spent with them. Will this behaviour change when they mature?

Looking forward to having some great discussions.

Congrats on the new chicks! and Welcome! Please post pictures when you can.

 

[RumAndCoconuts]

Thanks everyone,
I did go out to take a few pictures of the chicks as reqested as its been a while but they looked a right mess.
I had no chick food left whatsoever. We can't just pop down to a feed store here. I have to order it days in advance and it arrives on the mailboat which only comes in once a week.
So I cooked up a mix of oatmeal, grits, egg and yogurt and put it out for them. So...suffice it to say, photos will have to wait... Days by the state of them.

Happily though i have two new bags of food for the little blighters.

One of my legbar hens is coming out with a wonderful crest as is one of the roos. I will have you people help me choose my two 'breeders' to hatch out some more pure bred. These are entirely new to me so I will need your expertise. I'm bound to miss an obvious flaw or two.
I'm assuming if you are just breeding for EEs then you don't need to be so picky about the breed standard, correct?
Waiting is tough isn't it?
But here's a photo of the legbars at one day old.

 

[ChicKat]

Thanks everyone,
I did go out to take a few pictures of the chicks as reqested as its been a while but they looked a right mess.
I had no chick food left whatsoever. We can't just pop down to a feed store here. I have to order it days in advance and it arrives on the mailboat which only comes in once a week.
So I cooked up a mix of oatmeal, grits, egg and yogurt and put it out for them. So...suffice it to say, photos will have to wait... Days by the state of them.

Happily though i have two new bags of food for the little blighters.

One of my legbar hens is coming out with a wonderful crest as is one of the roos. I will have you people help me choose my two 'breeders' to hatch out some more pure bred. These are entirely new to me so I will need your expertise. I'm bound to miss an obvious flaw or two.
I'm assuming if you are just breeding for EEs then you don't need to be so picky about the breed standard, correct?
Waiting is tough isn't it?
But here's a photo of the legbars at one day old.

they are too cute!!

 

[ochochicas]

My legbar crosses are colored just like yours. Six are colored like Legbar pullets and the other two are much lighter and don't have distinct striping. Fingers crossed that I do have 6 pullets out of 8 chicks. That would be amazing odds! I'll have to wait and see what they do as they grow up.

 

[RumAndCoconuts]

Oh I hope the colouring is true for you. That would be great odds indeed.
Do you know what they are crossed with? That might let you know if they are indeed auto sexed.

 

[ronott1]

Oh I hope the colouring is true for you. That would be great odds indeed.
Do you know what they are crossed with? That might let you know if they are indeed auto sexed.

The first cross from CCLs will often be a sex link and not auto sexing. The next generation will usually not be either.