Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[chicken pickin]

Quote: If that is the case would he also produce the same not ideal auto sexing traits if used with CL hens?

 

[nicalandia]

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my guess would be he will produce dark males that are double barred(but not light colored) and this double barred males while dark as some females will still produce autosexing chicks(blurred/undifined headspot) they would produce Dark males like this ones, while not easy to sex at hatch like the Ideal Autosexing chicks that won the best Autosexing chicks(I will post pics of such chicks), ..
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[nicalandia]

here you can see how the light vs dark male look like, even if the birds are hatchmate, there is a lonely female in the Top right corner
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[nicalandia]

I guess I just didnt see this post in the beginning thread... the following cross are Sexlinks, meaning a gold male(CCL) was mated to Silver hens(Silver laced cochin and Silver Laced Wyandotte hen) and the oucome was sexlinks(wildtype males with silver/yellow tones and gold/brown tone females) but if you take a look at their Autosexing traits, its the same issue as we had with the CCL x GLW cross, Dark Males with almost nonexistent headspots
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[chicken pickin]

I guess I just didnt see this post in the beginning thread...


the following cross are Sexlinks, meaning a gold male(CCL) was mated to Silver hens(Silver laced cochin and Silver Laced Wyandotte hen) and the oucome was sexlinks(wildtype males with silver/yellow tones and gold/brown tone females) but if you take a look at their Autosexing traits, its the same issue as we had with the CCL x GLW cross, Dark Males with almost nonexistent headspots

Quote: Yes these are my chicks. They are not auto sexing and both sexes did have very faint head spot (barely noticeable) in both crosses. But even with the both males and females having a dark tone they were very distinguishable in the lighter color of their down. Females=reddish/brown and males=yellow.

 

[familypendragon]

LOL! So I don't know what any of that means regarding my 6 chicks we initially said were all female except the one lighter one might have been male. Do we now think that is the only female. I got kind of lost with all that. I read it all but wasn't sure what I was supposed to get out of it. i apologize if I am being dense... its been a really long day/week/month.

 

[familypendragon]

Oh, and the male used for that mix was the CCL breeder my friend gave me, when she retired him. All the chicks he produced with CCL hens were the standard easily identifiable autosexing chicks :/ They were not the dark chicks. I got my first dark chick recently from a different breeder. I had never seen one so dark before.

 

[familypendragon]

Just quoting the post from when they hatched so we can compare headspots at birth compared to now.

I thought I posted pics but I don't see them... so far I have hatched 5 CCL roo x GLW chicks and it appears I have all pullets One more is pipped and another due in a couple days and that is all I will be hatching of that combo this year. Figuring they will lay probably a mint green egg. Right now they are autosexing.... my question is - to keep them that way who do I cross them back to if I only get females? Will crossing to another CCL keep them autosexing? I Could also go for some olive eggers as I will have a BCM or Partridge Penedesenca roo to use by then. Would either of those combos keep the autosexing trait?

Here are my girls.

And little lite brown baby

 

[nicalandia]

any pics of them recently?

 

[dretd]

Just quoting the post from when they hatched so we can compare headspots at birth compared to now.
Quote: Cute stuffie and nice little menagerie! Your cat looks bored--'great another chick, when will it be my turn'

Sorry, I haven;t been following this thread much and I am coming rather late to the party. If I understand right, you had a CL roo over some hens like Wyandottes and since the chicks hatched with a heads pots and 'V's you were guessing that they may be females? Did I get that right--if not please correct me!

I am skeptical about a CCL roo x wyandotte keeping any autosexing traits. He has 2 copies of the barring gene and the female has none. So each of the babies will have a very faint head spot because both boys and girls will receive one copy of the barring gene. I am thinking you were also going by the V on the top of the head? In my experience the V will be variably in boys and girls but mostly present when you cross to another breed--going off of non-Legbars but rather other breeds such as Welsummers, so it may not transfer over. Jumbled genes=jumbled chick down patterns.

I look forward to seeing more recent pictures!