Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[enola]

You would have to make certain the cream legbar did not come from a line of cream legbar that lays green eggs.

 

[ronott1]

You would have to make certain the cream legbar did not come from a line of cream legbar that lays green eggs.

The egg shell would be blue, so the brown coating that makes the egg green would be good for making Olive eggers.

Look into it--there is no such beast as a green egg shell color. Egg shells are either white or blue and blue is dominant.

If the egg is green, there are brown coating genes-- The egg shell is blue covered with brown which equals green.

The lines of CCLs that lay green eggs have some of the 15 genes that make a brown coating color.

 

[enola]

I realize that. But, if a hen is laying a green egg, then she has the likely hood of passing on whatever gene is causing the green shell color. No where in my post did I state that there is a green egg gene.

 

[ronott1]

I realize that. But, if a hen is laying a green egg, then she has the likely hood of passing on whatever gene is causing the green shell color. No where in my post did I state that there is a green egg gene.

Sorry for being confused.

To make sure I understand, because the Cream legbar lays a green egg and was crossed with a brown egg layer at some time, selecting hens that lay blue would increase the odds that the hen has two blue genes?

That does make sense.

Thanks!

 

[enola]

I am glad you see what I was trying to say. I don't always say things as clearly as I think them. But, yes, if someone is breeding for 2 blue genes, using a hen that lays green eggs is not going to get results they want in a timely manner. Just my humble opinion.....

 

[enola]

Not all cream legbar hens lay green eggs. Some lines lay blue eggs.

 

[chambe94]

No, avoiding green will make no difference. The green layers can still carry two blue genes. The brown genes ( which turn a blue egg to green) are totally independent of the blue vs. White gene.

 

[sol2go]

I would cross to a blue egg layer--a Cream legbar would be good. Then use the pullets that lay the darkest eggs and cross them to a brother. Then try weeding out over several generations to get the color and I wanted. The trick would be getting double blue and enough brown genes to keep the eggs a nice olive color.

This is the egg for reference--It gets the blue genes from a Cream Legbar so the pullet is A CCL hybrid.

so you would go to a blue, not a blue/brown for next gen? Maybe we can compare results if we both give it a try…it could be a long conversation =)

 

[ronott1]

so you would go to a blue, not a blue/brown for next gen? Maybe we can compare results if we both give it a try…it could be a long conversation =)

It would take years!

This year I am crossing Partridge Penedesenca with Arkansas Blues. The Arkansas Blues lay very pretty blue eggs.

 

[ochochicas]

Legbars were developed by crossing leghorns, araucanas and Barred rocks together. It is not surprising that they sometimes carry the brown egg gene since Barred Rocks lay brown eggs. There are also genes that inhibit brown (which I read are pretty common in the leghorn breeds), so some legbars could have a brown gene that is being suppressed by the inhibitor gene. My legbars lay blue eggs, but I have to admit that one of them lays an eggs sometimes that has a green hue to it.