Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[ChicKat]

nope..

Autosexing is just a way to phenotypically distinguish the two sexes at hatch...

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/autosexing

ahhh a webster's moment. Each day you learn something new. Still going to follow up though with websters.:O)

 

[HaplessRunner]

In addition, to the CCL crosses I am growing out, I have a new batch that hatched on October 12.

The chicks below are CCLxBO (buff orpington) and CCLxEO (Euskal Oiloa ), left and right respectively. You can see the head stripe on both as well as the chipmunk stripping on the CCLxEO and faintly on the CCLxBO. The CCL eye liner is readily evident as well. Both of these chicks project as females.

This picture was taken last evening. Sadly, I found the CCLxBO dead this morning. No signs of anything that was amiss. My standard protocol is to treat all newly hatched chicks for coccidosis for the first five days. They had completed that regimen with no problems or indications noted. She would have been a beautiful girl.

 

[familypendragon]

In addition, to the CCL crosses I am growing out, I have a new batch that hatched on October 12. The chicks below are CCLxBO (buff orpington) and CCLxEO (Euskal Oiloa ), left and right respectively. You can see the head stripe on both as well as the chipmunk stripping on the CCLxEO and faintly on the CCLxBO. The CCL eye liner is readily evident as well. Both of these chicks project as females. This picture was taken last evening. Sadly, I found the CCLxBO dead this morning. No signs of anything that was amiss. My standard protocol is to treat all newly hatched chicks for coccidosis for the first five days. They had completed that regimen with no problems or indications noted.

That is so sad Fowl Pox is running through Texas and the wet version is what I think killed 3 of my new chicks No symptoms, just fine and then dead.

 

[HaplessRunner]

In addition to the crosses that were noted previously, I hatched a white sport cream legbar from my stock. This is noted on the white sport cream legbar thread. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/827877/white-sport-cream-legbars/10#post_12179130

I also hatched a normal CCL male from my stock and a normal CCL female and male from eggs from a NC breeder I met at Gilmanor Swap. IN addition, two more CCLxEEs were hatched which you will find interesting from the pictures below. Both of the CCLxEEs project as pullets.

Will the "real" cream legbar pullet, please step forward!!!







It really is remarkable how similarly colored and striped the CCLxEEs are to the the CCL pullet in the pictures above. LOL - for those who are not sure, the "real" CCL pullet is in the center of all three of these pictures.

A noted previously, the parents of the CCLxEEs are as follows:

 

[Darkangael]

So sorry to hear you lost your chicks.

 

[HaplessRunner]

Losing young chicks always sux. New life is presented with so much promise and then it is gone. It always leaves a sad feeling.

 

[nicalandia]

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thanks, Expected e+/eWh cross... and you are right, all females..

 

[nicalandia]

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Thanks... As expected e+/eb Cross(wildtype/eb brown) the chicks will look like pure e+/e+ chicks.. while e+/eWh can very from chick to chick..

 

[CibolaChooks]

That is so sad

Fowl Pox is running through Texas and the wet version is what I think killed 3 of my new chicks

No symptoms, just fine and then dead.

what. I thought Fowl Pox just gave them a lil black spots on the Combs. a few months ago I had a bird with no symptoms be just fine one day and then died the next. I wonder if it could have been Wet Fowl Pox. How do they get it. is it something they can only catch from another bird or wild birds. I gave up trying to find out what it was that killed mine. I started to think it might have been a poisonous weed that my son fed to the chickens or some type of freak accident. We have quite a few poisonous weeds in my area and he was always feeding the weeds to the chickens. After that one chicken just up and died i only let him feed the wild grass.

Then i had a guy come into my work talking about a certain type of grass if cut at the wrong time of the year has cyanide in the lower parts of the the plant. I forget the name of the grass but it grows wild rather good and most people think its a bad grass to feed your horses. but its actually a really good grass if its cut at the right time of the year. After that talk i just stopped that type of feeding all together. maybe i didn't explore all the options if Pox kills too. The pen they were in was my new grow out pen with allot of males but i don't think they were old enough to have male aggression kill that one. Ive witnessed a roo mount another roo before like hes breeding and peck the other ones head so hard 5 times really fast he died shortly there after. Its sad how there is so many ways to loose a chicken.. can you tell me more about the wet pox.

 

[CibolaChooks]

Nical:

You just shot that way over my head...if its too complicated thats ok, but where is wheaten play into this? Sorry I am a Zero on knowing chicken genetics.....I was curious, if girls will they lay blue/olive/brown eggs? And, thanks for responding!

The male is what passes the egg color down. So your CCL male will pass the blue egg laying gene down. I think it was garydean that posted if your hen lays white eggs the offspring from a CCL x white egg hen would be sky blue eggs. If its a shade of brown the hen lays would be from mint green, green to blue green eggs. and if the hen lays a dark egg like a maran you will have olive colored eggs.