Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[CibolaChooks]

My cl eggs will change color ive even noticed it in my show quality ams, they will be blue then some greens then blue again. I dont think it has anything to do with the time of season its just how it goes

 

[farmhand]

My cl eggs will change color ive even noticed it in my show quality ams, they will be blue then some greens then blue again. I dont think it has anything to do with the time of season its just how it goes

I'm not trying to be argumentative, in fact, I consider myself ignorant in this subject, but one hen laying several colors at different times is not what I have always heard. I'm open to new ideas.

 

[CibolaChooks]

The eggs can change color due to what they eat. Allot of people also think that eggs start losing their color towards the end of the laying season

 

[CibolaChooks]

Ive got nice blue eggs for weeks then all the sudden a greenish one and next lay its back to blue.

 

[CibolaChooks]

Orange and red foods are said to make the color of the eggs more saturated

 

[texas75563]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/25/california-northern/37000 post #37001

Posted by Chiqita. Jason, When you decide on a rooster get him tested for the blue gene. Its only like 15 bucks and soo worth it for your project. I find the info on pea combs to be sketchy. Id rather KNOW he carried the blue gene.

She didn't give a name or link to place. At least not on that page. There are presently 56 more pages after that post.
I found the information below. I have no idea if it is same place or not. It is in California.

https://www.facebook.com/ChickGenes

ChickGenes will soon be offering DNA identification of chickens carrying the blue egg trait.

 

[nicalandia]

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I would cross that pullet back to Wyandotte and produce more Salmon Breast Gold Laced Wyandotte pullets, as you can see the e+/eWh pullets do show their salmon breast, and I have yet to see a Salmon breast Wandotte

 

[HaplessRunner]

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As you can see below, Wyandotte were not a part of the breeding experiment. The experiments involved a CLB cockerel with an EE hen and a CLB cockerel with Rhode Island Red hens. Are you suggesting taking the CLBxRIR pullets to gold laced wyandotte rooster? I am curious on possible options to develop these further.

One option I can see is breed back the CLBxEE rooster #1 to CLB hens to reduce/change the shape of CLB rooster comb. That would be considered because all three of my main CLB cockerels suffered horrible frostbite to combs, wattles, and ear lobes while other breeds with medium to large combs were unaffected. The older CLB cockerel that has the best barring on his chest would seem to be the best candidate for this. He is also also going to be a huge rooster! At 4.5 months of age he is as large/larger than his father. CLBxEE #3 also has merit in that he has more cream showing in his feathering and has yellow legs. He is still a good size even though he is a month younger but is already a very dominant cockerel.

The second option is for the CLBx RIR cross pullets. In this case, I am uncertain which direction to take them. Breeding back to CLB would further emphasize the CLB patterns and characteristics, essentially moving toward a red crested legbar. Or another direction could be pursued.

Hence my questions for the genetics folks on their thoughts.

Looking forward to some input.

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Finally got some pictures of my CLB hybrids. To jog your memories, here are the parents of the three CLBxEE crosses:



Here are the sons of this cross. So far she has only produced cockerels.

CLBxEE Cockerel #1

This boy was hatched on September 7th and physically, he is as large or larger than his father now. You can definitely see some cream coming out in his hackle and saddle feathers. He has white legs and a comb that is not a pea comb nor is it a high rising CLB comb. His barring across chest appears to be consistent.






CLBxEE Cockerel #2

He was hatched on October 12. He has a similar comb and white legs like #1 above. His barring is broken and inconsistent across the chest and you can see cream starting to come out in his saddle and hackle feathers.




CLBxEE Cockerel #3

He was hatched on October 12. He has a similar comb to the other two CLBxEEs. Unlike the other two, he has yellow legs with significantly more cream coming out in his feathering. His barring is broken and inconsistent with white stripe down the center of his chest. He also is showing more dominance and is more standoffish. He is already trying to breed the immature females around him.



All three cockerels have the classic CLB tail shape and very good tail angles.


CLBxRIR Pullets:

The father of these pullets is the CLB cockerel pictured above. They were hatched on September 7th. THe one on the left is non-crested and the one on the right is crested. If you peruse the pictures, you will note that both pullets have the same color distribution patterns of CLB hens; just with red overlayed. You can see some hackle striping, the clear color on the chest, and barring starting at the wing bows proceeding back through the tail. The tail ends with the darker RIR tail feathers. As you can see both of these pullets are reddening in the face and their combs and wattles are growing. So POL is not too far away. It will be really interesting to see what egg colors come from this combination.







Looking at the crested pullet in the last pictures above, you would almost swear that you were looking at a CLB pullet with her type and stance - just a different color variety.

Comments and thoughts are invited!!!

 

[farmhand]

Finally got some pictures of my CLB hybrids. To jog your memories, here are the parents of the three CLBxEE crosses:

Did any of your birds show sex-linked or auto sexing traits? I am thinking of breeding the same crosses this spring.

 

[HaplessRunner]

Did any of your birds show sex-linked or auto sexing traits? I am thinking of breeding the same crosses this spring.

Yes, If you look at the very first posting in this thread, I did a write up on what I believed may have been a transmission of autosexing traits. There are pictures there as well.