Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[jerryse]

Finally! Hard to see the barring on these EE ,

 

[minnehaha]

Love your Easter Bars - especially the second one - it is so unusual.

Yep, it is CL rooster X Isbar hen - and I had at that time 2 blues and 1 splash in lay. I don't know which hen is his mom. We were calling them Ice Cream Bars-- I have a friend selling a LOT of Ice Cream Bar eggs on ebay - so there is interest. I like the combs on my Isbar roosters much better than the ones on the Cream Legbars. His is about 1/2 way between CL and Isbar. Both these hybrids also had crests -- so that is what 1-cresting gene produces.

Thank you! I love the name "Ice Cream Bars" so fun! I don't understand all the gene stuff, but am trying hard to learn it.

Yes, the second one is unusual looking. She looks like she has a lions mane!

I set 23 eggs in the incubator today, I'm hoping they are all straight CL, but I could very well end up with more Easter bars as well....LOL. I figured out that I have 2 Easter Eggers who lay the same color blue, and shape of egg as my CL's.

Edited to add: I set 2 BB Red old English game hen eggs crossed with my CL roo in the incubator too. I want to see if I would end up with a couple of mini CL looking chickens....if they hatch of course!

 

[minnehaha]

Minnie - your hens are beautiful. My favorite rooster was an "Easter bar". When it came time to sell his chicks I couldn't part with any of them. I gave one rooster to my neighbor and kept the other 11 chicks!!!

Thank you!!

I would LOVE to see your Easter bars!!!!! do you have pictures?


I understand why you kept yours. I had full intention on giving these girls to my neighbor, but I just cannot bring myself to part with them! They are so darn ridiculously adorable! and lately, they have gotten beautiful! I fell hard for them.....

 

[minnehaha]

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

I was wondering what others were calling them!!! Why is it your favorite cross? These girls have really grown on me, I cannot part with them! Especially now that they are almost to POL.

I set 23 eggs (hopefully all CL, no EE eggs) in the incubator today and had to resist the temptation to fill it up with other eggs. All my eggs are CL fertilized. You can see all of my hen breeds in the signature. I resisted the temptation except for I just remembered that I stuck 2 BB Red Old English game hen eggs in the incubator....LOL. I guess I didn't resist the temptation after all....

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If you were me, which other eggs (of my breeds) would you have stuck in the incubator today???

 

[minnehaha]

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

She's beautiful!!!!! So is her mama!!

 

[minnehaha]

Love your Easter Bars - especially the second one - it is so unusual.

Yep, it is CL rooster X Isbar hen - and I had at that time 2 blues and 1 splash in lay. I don't know which hen is his mom. We were calling them Ice Cream Bars-- I have a friend selling a LOT of Ice Cream Bar eggs on ebay - so there is interest. I like the combs on my Isbar roosters much better than the ones on the Cream Legbars. His is about 1/2 way between CL and Isbar. Both these hybrids also had crests -- so that is what 1-cresting gene produces.

His comb is super nice! And the pullet is really pretty too. Share her first egg with us when she hits POL! My Easter bars are also September chicks, they should be laying soon too!

 

[ChicKat]

His comb is super nice! And the pullet is really pretty too. Share her first egg with us when she hits POL! My Easter bars are also September chicks, they should be laying soon too!

hahaha - You read my mind-- I was looking at my blue Isbar rooster today and wishing I could get that comb on my CLs. -- I am down to just one Isbar rooster now - but of the 6 I have had every single one of them had great combs and wattles. So that little guy got his nice comb from his mother's side of the family.



sorry it is a lousey picture....but the left most is from an Isbar Pullet - the back one from a Cream Legbar and the other 4 are from hybrid -- one of them - the one next to real Isbar's was just collected today -- so you can see she is using up some of her brown and getting a tiny bit bluer. -- If anyone has an Online Auction Color Chart -- the color is between OAC53 and OAC59 to my eyes. I have to say -- they will tell you that once a hen starts to lay her color of egg doesn't change -- but my Isbar flock tends to have variations in their eggs.

I have a friend selling Ice Cream Bar hatching eggs on eBay.

 

[minnehaha]

hahaha - You read my mind-- I was looking at my blue Isbar rooster today and wishing I could get that comb on my CLs. -- I am down to just one Isbar rooster now - but of the 6 I have had every single one of them had great combs and wattles. So that little guy got his nice comb from his mother's side of the family.



sorry it is a lousey picture....but the left most is from an Isbar Pullet - the back one from a Cream Legbar and the other 4 are from hybrid -- one of them - the one next to real Isbar's was just collected today -- so you can see she is using up some of her brown and getting a tiny bit bluer. -- If anyone has an Online Auction Color Chart -- the color is between OAC53 and OAC59 to my eyes. I have to say -- they will tell you that once a hen starts to lay her color of egg doesn't change -- but my Isbar flock tends to have variations in their eggs.

I have a friend selling Ice Cream Bar hatching eggs on eBay.

Lovely lovely assorted blues and greens!!!! I can't wait for my Online Auction Color Chart to come in the mail, I ordered it 2 days ago!! I'm sick of trying to figure out the colors, I'm so glad you guys were posting about the chart, I was on it, googling and ordering it in a blink of an eye! I agree that they lay variations in color, I've seen it myself. Is it my computer or are some olive?

 

[chrissyr]

Ah…this is the thread I need! So I have CCL in with a blue hen (Arkansas Blue). I didn't think I grabbed her egg to hatch but a chick hatched that is quite light. I'm wondering if it's half arkansas blue or a recessive white CCL. Shouldn't a CCL male over a blue hen produce black chicks? I'll try to get pics but chicks are flying out of the shells right now, lol!

 

[ochochicas]

Lovely lovely assorted blues and greens!!!! I can't wait for my Online Auction Color Chart to come in the mail, I ordered it 2 days ago!! I'm sick of trying to figure out the colors, I'm so glad you guys were posting about the chart, I was on it, googling and ordering it in a blink of an eye! I agree that they lay variations in color, I've seen it myself. Is it my computer or are some olive?

Where did you order your chart? I'd like to get one, too.