Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[familypendragon]

This was the update from the previous page When I first posted that I was hatching CCL roo x Golden Laced Wyandotte nicalandia mentioned they would be autosexing (can't remember the genetic reason) and when they hatched I was told all girls. Steen said he thought the one with the light brown head patch might actually be male, but nicalandia said the spot would have to be white. BUT in the update most agreed #1 indeed looks male and its strange "he" has a straight comb.

Pic heavy update!

I lost one CCL x GLW because of apparent neurological issues - I believe she was chick #3. Here are the other 6 plus one little yellow WL mix and 3 Marans mixes that were hatched in the same batch. Group shots followed by individual chick pics.

Here is the first chick that hatched #1 seems to be developing a straight comb. I get a roo feeling from it but it could just be the difference between seeing a straight comb versus rose comb.

Chick #2

Chick #3 deceased

Chick #4

Chick #5

Chick #6

And the final #7 - the one with light brown headspot that may or may not be a boy, LOL!

 

[dretd]

This was the update from the previous page

When I first posted that I was hatching CCL roo x Golden Laced Wyandotte nicalandia mentioned they would be autosexing (can't remember the genetic reason) and when they hatched I was told all girls. Steen said he thought the one with the light brown head patch might actually be male, but nicalandia said the spot would have to be white. BUT in the update most agreed #1 indeed looks male and its strange "he" has a straight comb.
I'm pretty confident in calling that first one a boy! That is one big comb and even slightly pinking up.

I think rose combs are harder to sex early on but if you look at the width of the comb area and compare the chicks, the boys have a wider comb area than the girls. The eyes are typically a little larger, too. And how trunk-like vs dainty the legs are. Just those subtle things for clues.

Super cuties!

 

[nicalandia]

I said that a CCL mated to GLW would look like Sexlinks as its normal for females that carry barring to lack the headspot, only a few CCL female chicks carry this trait, but most dont, and the boys SHOULD at least have a small headspot..


but this seems not the case with CCL and its weird Dark male chick down genetics.


I know wonder that if one uses a CCL Female with Dark chick Down and mate it to GLW or any other Laced or partridge male would produce Sexlinks at all, so far evidence Heterozygous CCLxGLW e+/eb B/b+ males(in pics of this thread) would suggest this is not possible due to the nature of the genetics found on CCL

 

[familypendragon]

Here is a pic of the daddy if that helps the equation at all.

And here is the Momma

During the time I gathered eggs from her, they had been locked up on a different part of the property alone for over 2 months. So I can be sure of the parentage.

 

[dretd]

I said that a CCL mated to GLW would look like Sexlinks as its normal for females that carry barring to lack the headspot, only a few CCL female chicks carry this trait, but most dont, and the boys SHOULD at least have a small headspot..


but this seems not the case with CCL and its weird Dark male chick down genetics.


I know wonder that if one uses a CCL Female with Dark chick Down and mate it to GLW or any other Laced or partridge male would produce Sexlinks at all, so far evidence Heterozygous CCLxGLW e+/eb B/b+ males(in pics of this thread) would suggest this is not possible due to the nature of the genetics found on CCL

I am not sure that only a few female Legbars have a headspot. The breed standard calls for it and 3/3 (I know, not statistically significant) if the female chicks I have hatched had a headpot-2 were very obvious and the third was not as distinct.

 

[dretd]

Here is a pic of the daddy if that helps the equation at all.

During the time I gathered eggs from her, they had been locked up on a different part of the property alone for over 2 months. So I can be sure of the parentage.

I will look forward to seeing the chicks once they get their mature plumage in to see what kind of uniformity that have.

 

[nicalandia]

I need better pics of the CCL male..

 

[nicalandia]

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I have seen plenty of CCL female chicks without headspot to offset your 3/3 percentage

 

[WHmarans]

I hatched 9 females and only 1 had a head spot.

 

[nicalandia]

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are you talking about pure CCL right? not hybrids correct?