Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[chicken pickin]

Hi everyone! Glad I found this thread! I recently acquired a crested cream legbar roo (and pullet) and I can't wait until I can create some awesome hybrids with him and my girls :-D

Do you have more pics of your cute little cockerel? Im curious if he may already be a hybrid since he has the reddish brown color to his chest. Cream Legbar males feather in gray and white barred, even on the breast area. I suppose more colorful lines of CL might color in like this but you typically see gray and white.

 

[chicken pickin]

I only have one Cream Legbar hybrid chick this year that I kept and it is a Cream Legbar X Silver Spangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben. It is a real cutie and super friendly. I go back and forth on male or female, but Im thinking possible pullet but I cant decide. It is 4weeks old.

 

[Junibutt]

I only have one Cream Legbar hybrid chick this year that I kept and it is a Cream Legbar X Silver Spangled Appenzeller Spitzhauben. It is a real cutie and super friendly. I go back and forth on male or female, but Im thinking possible pullet but I cant decide. It is 4weeks old.

Really can't tell. Nice crest!

 

[Junibutt]

Not the right forum but still want to share some pics of my White Sport girl Charlotte. She is 12 weeks now. Some folks have been commenting that she may not lay blue eggs. So I will be anxious for the next 12 weeks.

 

[chicken pickin]

Not the right forum but still want to share some pics of my White Sport girl Charlotte. She is 12 weeks now. Some folks have been commenting that she may not lay blue eggs. So I will be anxious for the next 12 weeks.

Love her! She is so pretty. Why do people think she might not lay a blue egg?

 

[Junibutt]

Love her! She is so pretty.

Why do people think she might not lay a blue egg?

Some people (I think mistakenly) think that the recessive white is also associated with paler blue or almost white eggs. Whereas others think there is no association, so will have to see for myself.

 

[ochochicas]

My legbar saga continues.

Some of you might remember that I bought a flock of "purebred" legbars last year. The eggs would never hatch, so I ended up crossing the rooster to my speckled sussex. I crossed the hens with my turken rooster. My hatch rate went up, and it was a good time to test the pureness of the egg color.

My first pullet to lay was one of the sussex crosses. The eggs were nearly white.

My pullets from the legbar hens crossed with the turken rooster lay BROWN eggs. Super disappointed in the person who sold them to me.

Two eggs on the top are legbar x turken. Bottom egg is Sussex x legbar.



Here is one of my crested Turken pullets that has a legbar for a mom. Despite the color of egg she may lay, how can she not be adorable!

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

One of my many projects this year was to further my autosexing EE project. I knew that legbars would bring size down and I want a dual purpose bird so I got a red ranger hen to breed to my legbar, she was about 15 lbs. I got 2 chicks from her before she had a heart attack and it turned out to be a pair. Here they are

 

[KendyF]

Nice

 

[chicken pickin]

One of my many projects this year was to further my autosexing EE project. I knew that legbars would bring size down and I want a dual purpose bird so I got a red ranger hen to breed to my legbar, she was about 15 lbs. I got 2 chicks from her before she had a heart attack and it turned out to be a pair. Here they are

Congrats on the pair!