Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[nadrojsack]

Here are my CL hybrid chicks at 2 weeks old, at what point will i be able to tell for sure which are cockerals?

 

[tobit]

Sorry to butt in guys, but i was looking at some photos of CL x SLW crosses earlier in the thread, and noted that their combs (from what i can see in the photos anyway) look like single combs and not rose combs. It is my understanding that rose combs are dominant, so surely a cross would be heterozygous; and therefore should have a rose comb?

 

[La Vivi]

Curious, what did your Bielefelder roo x CL hens eggs look like?

Hi
Did both your bielefelders and CL lay well? And How well does this cross lay?

 

[La Vivi]

This is a cross between a cream legbar hen and a white sizzle rooster. I was told earlier that both these chicks are pullets.

this is what she looks like now

Here is my second chick from this cross as both a day old and how she looks now at 7 weeks

Aren't they both so cute? Especially the second one? She has the prettiest frizzled feathers and has such intricate black and white markings on them

 

[ochochicas]

Sorry to butt in guys, but i was looking at some photos of CL x SLW crosses earlier in the thread, and noted that their combs (from what i can see in the photos anyway) look like single combs and not rose combs. It is my understanding that rose combs are dominant, so surely a cross would be heterozygous; and therefore should have a rose comb?

It is true that the rose comb gene should be dominant. If the chicken has one rose comb gene, then it will have a rose comb.

That said, I have breed Legbar/Ameraucana crosses. They sometimes will have a pea comb but sometimes they will have a "mixed" comb which looks like a larger version of the pea comb. Even when bred back to an Ameraucana, the combs sometimes still come out mixed. Maybe there is more than one gene involved with comb development.

 

[tobit]

It is true that the rose comb gene should be dominant. If the chicken has one rose comb gene, then it will have a rose comb.

That said, I have breed Legbar/Ameraucana crosses. They sometimes will have a pea comb but sometimes they will have a "mixed" comb which looks like a larger version of the pea comb. Even when bred back to an Ameraucana, the combs sometimes still come out mixed. Maybe there is more than one gene involved with comb development.

Hmm i think you may be right! I'll leave it to the experts

 

[ronott1]

It is true that the rose comb gene should be dominant. If the chicken has one rose comb gene, then it will have a rose comb.

That said, I have breed Legbar/Ameraucana crosses. They sometimes will have a pea comb but sometimes they will have a "mixed" comb which looks like a larger version of the pea comb. Even when bred back to an Ameraucana, the combs sometimes still come out mixed. Maybe there is more than one gene involved with comb development.

Genetics questions early on a Saturday!

It is not as simple as that:



See, rose comp is RRpp. Pea comb is rrPp and you can get it from different parents. You can have an Rrpp rose comb parent and then have pea comb offspring with the correct mating.

If you notice, single comb is Rrpp, so there is a single dominant R and you get straight.

http://www.extension.org/pages/6536...backyard-flocks:-an-introduction#.VapmmqRViko

 

[chicken pickin]

Sorry to butt in guys, but i was looking at some photos of CL x SLW crosses earlier in the thread, and noted that their combs (from what i can see in the photos anyway) look like single combs and not rose combs. It is my understanding that rose combs are dominant, so surely a cross would be heterozygous; and therefore should have a rose comb?

That was my cross. The SLW used to make some of the chicks was hatchery and she had a single comb, therefore all chicks from her also had a single comb. Most of the pics early on in the thread from me were of my CL x SL Cochin, also making chicks single combed. The chicks from my CL and rose combed SLW did have rose combs.

You are correct though that SLW should have rose combs and yes they are dominant and should make all chicks rose combed as well.

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

I did that cross as well and hatched a dozen chicks. 5 pullets and 7 cockerels. I had 4 chicks with single combs. 2 cockerels and 2 pullets. The SLW hen had a rose comb and was from a good breeder.

 

[ronott1]

I did that cross as well and hatched a dozen chicks. 5 pullets and 7 cockerels. I had 4 chicks with single combs. 2 cockerels and 2 pullets. The SLW hen had a rose comb and was from a good breeder.

Yes, It is Walnut that is dominant, not rose comb. It is in the chart I posted back several posts.