Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[ochochicas]

Question about autosexing babies. I crossed my Duckwing/wheaten turken with my CCL hens. Some of the chicks hatched yellow with faint/light markings. Others are dark with some stripes and look like Legbar colors. Can I tell at this point who is a pullet and who is a cockerel?

 

[sol2go]

If I cross a legbar roo and a barred rock hen, will I get a chick that lays green eggs? I had just collected eggs and had room in my incubator for one more. So I grabbed my barred rocks.

yes =)

 

[normanack]

If I cross a legbar roo and a barred rock hen, will I get a chick that lays green eggs? I had just collected eggs and had room in my incubator for one more. So I grabbed my barred rocks.

Depends if they're pullets or cockerels. ;-)
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

p.s. yes, the pullets will lay green eggs

 

[normanack]

Hi, I very much intended on hatching only CCL eggs (I have 2 CCL roosters, 30 hens of various breeds, 5 are CCL's), however, I absolutely could not tell some of my Easter Egger eggs from the CCL's and inadvertantly hatched out 2 crosses, which I call Easter bars. They are 4.5 months old and I think they are pretty, plus I like their personality. They autosexed perfectly, and looked exactly like a CCL pullet the day they hatched, but over a short span of time, I noticed the beards....and knew I had hybrids.

That's my favorite cross. Gorgeous! I call them Easter Leggers.

 

[ChicKat]

Depends if they're pullets or cockerels. ;-)
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

p.s. yes, the pullets will lay green eggs

good to see you again normanack

 

[ChicKat]

Question about autosexing babies. I crossed my Duckwing/wheaten turken with my CCL hens. Some of the chicks hatched yellow with faint/light markings. Others are dark with some stripes and look like Legbar colors. Can I tell at this point who is a pullet and who is a cockerel?

It almost sounds like it if you are seeing that demarcation in your chicks -- although without barring - in both the hen and cock-bird - the chicks wouldn't be -autosexing. Keep us updated when you know for certain. ETA - I thought that they could be sex-linked - but that would take gold-based male with silver-based female.

 

[ochochicas]

Quote: Ok, I'm going to try to get some pics later. They are all mixed in with the rest of the chicks so I'll have to try to dig them out. I do not see white spots on any of their heads, but then again with a Turken there isn't a lot of feathers on there to work with.

 

[ChicKat]

Ok, I'm going to try to get some pics later. They are all mixed in with the rest of the chicks so I'll have to try to dig them out. I do not see white spots on any of their heads, but then again with a Turken there isn't a lot of feathers on there to work with.

The Turken's lack of feathers is a cute thought...but definitely the splotches on the heads of the males requires two sets of the Barring gene from what I know. looking forward to picts.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I haven't been around much but got some pics today. Here is my leg-am-bar. Her mother was an ambar (at the bottom) which has barred rock, ameraucana, partridge rock, and RIR in her lineage. The sire was a pure legbar. She was hatched by a leghorn. Her color is the same as my legbars and she has a small crest but she has the comb and beard/muffs from her mom along with her moms bulky body. I think I'll breed her to a rose comb cock or maybe just a BCM for olive eggers.

Her mother

 

[ChicagoClucker]

Depends if they're pullets or cockerels. ;-)
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

p.s. yes, the pullets will lay green eggs

LOL, you are right! Only 1 egg