Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[Mama Bay]

What color are the legs on notch? He looks a lot like my little roo that I thought was a Barred Rock cross with legbar. I may have to change my mind. lol

They are yellow with a little bit of black shadowing...

 

[chicken pickin]

I hatched out a dozen CL X SLW chicks about a month ago and have 7 males from that hatch. My question is a basic egg color inheritance question. If these males are mated to brown egg laying hens what are the egg color options? The blue egg shell color is dominant, correct? Will all of the resulting offspring lay green eggs?

Couple of pics of the males:

Because they each got one blue egg gene and one brown egg gene they will only pass the blue egg gene on to future offspring 50% of the time. So if you cross them to a brown egg laying hen the roughly half the offspring will lay green eggs and half will lay brown eggs.

 

[KendyF]

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[rooboo]

They are yellow with a little bit of black shadowing...

Now I see what flying monkey poop meant about the leg color not hardly worth looking at in hybrids. So maybe my crosses did not include the barred rock. It appears that my little cockerel looks just like yours. I should think about a different way of saying that.

 

[Junibutt]

Now I see what flying monkey poop meant about the leg color not hardly worth looking at in hybrids. So maybe my crosses did not include the barred rock. It appears that my little cockerel looks just like yours. I should think about a different way of saying that.

Thats what I was trying to point out so I had @Mama Bay post pics. She hatched some of my Legbar x Australorp eggs and has ended up with two cockerels. Whereas a friend of mine is raising a pullet from the same breeders. This only opens up the possibility that your cockerel could be an Australorp hybrid, however it does not exclude the possibility of it being a barred rock hybrid. Here is the picture of the pullet from the same cross:



It was a little late in the evening so looks darker than she is but she is still darker than @Mama Bay 's cockerels.

If one of the barring experts could comment, I would appreciate it. Both have one barring gene so what other factor could be at play to make the pullet's barring look darker than the cockerels'?

 

[Junibutt]

Because they each got one blue egg gene and one brown egg gene they will only pass the blue egg gene on to future offspring 50% of the time. So if you cross them to a brown egg laying hen the roughly half the offspring will lay green eggs and half will lay brown eggs.

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[Junibutt]

@Junibutt This is Brahma the Brahma X (original I know lol)

@Junibutt and last but not least Barnie the Barnevelder X (again very original lol)

Very nice pics. I really like the Barnevelder X. The one I have is darker so I think yours got the blue gene and mine didn't unless there is some other factor in play. I will try to post a pic soon but I am envious of those beautiful blue feathers that are coming out.

As for the Brahma X, it is very similar to the one my friend is growing(except the crest)and if I recall from the pics you posted of her at a day or so old, she looked almost exactly like this one in the middle left:
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Now the middle left one grown up to look like this:

 

[rooboo]

Thats what I was trying to point out so I had @Mama Bay post pics. She hatched some of my Legbar x Australorp eggs and has ended up with two cockerels. Whereas a friend of mine is raising a pullet from the same breeders. This only opens up the possibility that your cockerel could be an Australorp hybrid, however it does not exclude the possibility of it being a barred rock hybrid. Here is the picture of the pullet from the same cross: It was a little late in the evening so looks darker than she is but she is still darker than @Mama Bay 's cockerels. If one of the barring experts could comment, I would appreciate it. Both have one barring gene so what other factor could be at play to make the pullet's barring look darker than the cockerels'?

Well the cockerels in question were just generic hatchery birds. What has me a little confused is when you look at my pullet, she basically stayed what I would call not barred, compared to a normal legba, she basically got darker.

 

[Junibutt]

Well the cockerels in question were just generic hatchery birds. What has me a little confused is when you look at my pullet, she basically stayed what I would call not barred, compared to a normal legba, she basically got darker.

Do you have day old pics of the pullet and the cockerel?

 

[Mama Bay]

Thats what I was trying to point out so I had @Mama Bay post pics. She hatched some of my Legbar x Australorp eggs and has ended up with two cockerels. Whereas a friend of mine is raising a pullet from the same breeders. This only opens up the possibility that your cockerel could be an Australorp hybrid, however it does not exclude the possibility of it being a barred rock hybrid. Here is the picture of the pullet from the same cross: It was a little late in the evening so looks darker than she is but she is still darker than @Mama Bay 's cockerels. If one of the barring experts could comment, I would appreciate it. Both have one barring gene so what other factor could be at play to make the pullet's barring look darker than the cockerels'?

She is really pretty!!! And yes she is much darker than my boys... They are more of a dark gray.