Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[WHmarans]

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some CCL females tend to have a faint headspot, but their well defined chipmunk headstripe will be the most give a way, you see males have a large undefined heaspot that blurs their head pattern... that is the same even if the male is heterozyous for the sexlinked barring gene

What is confusing about that is my chick looks a lot like the first chick picture posted in this thread and that one was male. I very much appreciate your replies on this sorry for being so slow to get it.

 

[chicken pickin]

All the chicks posted in this thread are CL Hybrids meaning crosses with another breed. So your chick is different than the ones shown here.

 

[WHmarans]

But didn't nicalandia just say the marking is the same even if the chick is heterozygous for the sexlinked barring gene? So that makes me think the marking would be the same for crosses?

 

[WHmarans]

But didn't nicalandia just say the marking is the same even if the chick is heterozygous for the sexlinked barring gene? So that makes me think the marking would be the same for crosses?

Sorry for bothering you with this. I'm interested in better understanding the down color if both the pure bred and crosses because ill have both pure bred and cross chicks I thought it would be easier to start by understanding the purebred colors but maybe that's not the case.

 

[chicken pickin]

I suppose I really don't understand genetics just yet though Im trying to learn. It was also said that in Cream Legbars both sexes can have a small head dot. As long as the chipmunk pattern is more bold and a distinct pattern not a smudgy light chipmunk pattern than it is female.

I guess Ill just let nicalandia answer your questions since the responses will be more knowledgable.

 

[WHmarans]

I suppose I really don't understand genetics just yet though Im trying to learn. It was also said that in Cream Legbars both sexes can have a small head dot. As long as the chipmunk pattern is more bold and a distinct pattern not a smudgy light chipmunk pattern than it is female.

That helps a lot right there. Ill keep it in mind looking at pictures thanks!

 

[familypendragon]

Wait, now that its all dry and fluffy I think I may finally have a little boy CCL x GLW - what do you think of that headspot? I am going by what nicalandia said - that this was an autosexing combo. I have no genetics background so I don't have any more info than that I'm afraid

 

[CibolaChooks]

Wait, now that its all dry and fluffy I think I may finally have a little boy CCL x GLW - what do you think of that headspot? I am going by what nicalandia said - that this was an autosexing combo. I have no genetics background so I don't have any more info than that I'm afraid

yep it looks like a nice gold spot. the pattern to the stripe breaks up after the spot too

 

[CibolaChooks]

Sorry for bothering you with this. I'm interested in better understanding the down color if both the pure bred and crosses because ill have both pure bred and cross chicks I thought it would be easier to start by understanding the purebred colors but maybe that's not the case.

The pure breed CCL with have a silver color down, a black color down, and a Cinnamon colored down. they say the Silver is the best but Ive had good luck with the black also. Some people think you wont get cream birds from black or Cinnamon but i have gotten cream colored roos from black so its all up in the air.

 

[CibolaChooks]

Quote: NIcalandia You dont remember all that fuss you put me threw proving that they are silver based there for sex linked.. The sex link has held up the boy is getting his comb growing and its pinkish the girl has yet to show any comb and shes 3 weeks older. I did in fact get tan colored birds with the wild type down. they look silver colored where they are not tan and the silver looks like the silver on a cream legbar and the silver from the Barred Cochin.

the black chicks born from this cross are feathering out with gold now. I really do think that with this cross the ones that carry gold in their genes dominate and the chicks come out black and look like my roo. The ones that carry Silver will come out with the wild type down and turn out looking the two tan and silver ones below.The boy grew barred feathers in then he has started to look more like the girl. His feathers are getting that mixed up color. They remind me of Swedish flower hens or Golder sex link hens. where the feathers have no pattern and contain 2 to 3 diffrent colors.

Ionly had CCL roos in the pen when these were born and the only birds i have with feathered feet which all these have are my Barred Cochins. If its not something you know about its fine no need to shoot off into something else ill just do more research next year. But somehow i think im on to something. the first test will be to see this wild type down chick , silver and tan boy when he gets older if he starts getting gold or not. If by maturity hes still tan and silver ill be hatching a bunch next spring to prove my theory.

Just so you have the proof there are the chicks pics wild type down and the all black one. both colors of down wild type and black come from this mix. the black chick with a head spot is the adult roo with gold feathering in. the two tan and silver ones are the chicks posted below.