Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[ChicagoClucker]

A CL male over Marans hen is not sexlink, all offspring of that cross will be barred to some degree and will show no sexing traits. A CL hen crossed to a Marans male will create Black Sexlinks, meaning male chicks will hatch with a white head spot and as they age will show barring, and females chicks will hatch black and as they age will remain black with some possible copper around the neck(collar).

Thanks for the help. I have been reading all of these posts, trying to gather all the info possible. I just started my backyard flock in April of 2014 and have become addicted. Thanks Again.

 

[rebrascora]

A quick question....

If I use my welsummer cockerel on my cream legbar hen, then am I right in thinking that I will get black sex links and will the blue egg laying gene pass on to any pullets to result in a green or olive egger?

Has anyone on here done this cross and did they like it? My legbar is a good layer, so hopefully that would pass on and any cockerels from this should be a decent size for the table.... and my welsummer cockerel is keen on the idea!!!

 

[chambe94]

Any guess what this guy is? He's a capon, so everything is underdeveloped, which complicates things.

The hens were either Legbars, easter eggers, or Isbars (though I don't think the Isbar hens were laying then). The rooster was either a black Isbar or black jersey giant.

I think the mom was a Legbar, because of the barring on the chest. But he looks kind of easter egger like to me too

 

[jerryse]

Any guess what this guy is? He's a capon, so everything is underdeveloped, which complicates things.

The hens were either Legbars, easter eggers, or Isbars (though I don't think the Isbar hens were laying then). The rooster was either a black Isbar or black jersey giant.

I think the mom was a Legbar, because of the barring on the chest. But he looks kind of easter egger like to me too

He has a beard so EE was involved .

 

[chambe94]

A quick question....

If I use my welsummer cockerel on my cream legbar hen, then am I right in thinking that I will get black sex links and will the blue egg laying gene pass on to any pullets to result in a green or olive egger?

Has anyone on here done this cross and did they like it? My legbar is a good layer, so hopefully that would pass on and any cockerels from this should be a decent size for the table.... and my welsummer cockerel is keen on the idea!!!

They will be sex-linked, in that all the boys will be barred, the girls will not.

If the Legbars are homozygous for blue eggs ( which they should be), all the babies will produce green eggs. Now, you won't be able to cross these offspring and get any predictable results (because everyone will be heterozygous for everything). But they should be a pretty bird.

 

[chambe94]

He has a beard so EE was involved .

I kind of thought that was a beard too ( though it's not a obvious as the pullet of the same age that I know is from the EE). Do EEs have barring? Or is that not barring on his chest. That is what is confusing me

 

[chambe94]

This is not her, but this is her exact color pattern

 

[rebrascora]

@chambe94

Thanks for replying. I thought afterwards that perhaps "black" sex link was not quite correct.

Will the offspring be uniform in colour and pattern. ie will they all look alike. I'm guessing the female chicks will all be chipmunk. I appreciate that the males will look similar to each other because they will all have head spots and become barred, but will the females have a standard look to them when they grow up? I have a couple of CCL(rooster)xRIR (hen) pullets and they are both pretty much identical to each other but I don't know if this was a fluke or not. I suppose if both parents are pure then they should all turn out similar looking, right?..... I have doubts about the pedigree of my Wellie roo though, gorgeous as he is, as he has white ear lobes, so maybe I'll have some variation, that is if I can get some of these eggs under a broody this spring and try it out..

 

[MsRiderUp]

Do you have any photos of them now? I guess that they aren't laying yet? Curious what the cross in eggs look like. Thanks!

 

[dheltzel]

I have a group of 8 young pullets hatched last summer that are starting to lay. I also had a CCL roo I wanted to pull from my pen to give his brother breeding rights, so I put him in with the pullets (he's more than ok with it, LOL). The pullets are pure Welsummers and Rhodebars. I was not planning to hatch any of their eggs, but got to thinking about what I would get and just might.

The Welsummmers should produce non-sex-linked olive eggers, right?

The Rhodebar progeny will certainly produce light green eggs, but will the chicks be sex linked? In my understanding of the genetics they will be, but are there genes involved that will muddy the down color differences when in a heterozygous state? I'd like to be sure before I start hatching because I intend to sell most of the chicks and buyers want pullets only.

I would be treating both of these as hybrids that lay unusually colored eggs and will not be carrying the lines any further.