Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[123silver]

I'll admit up front that I'm not entirely sure of this pullet's parentage. Clearly she's half Silkie. If the Silkie is her mother, then her father is, by elimination, Cream Legbar. (At that time I had two Silkie roos and one Cream Legbar roo.) If the Silkie is her father, then I have no idea. (I have a lot of hen breeds.) Is there any way to tell? Your thoughts welcome.

Note: She's larger than a bantam, more like a fat light fowl.

One of the silkies has to be the father because if the CCL was the father the chicks would carry one barring gene from him. This hen is not barred therefor the legbar is not the father.

 

[MountainMarans2012]

Anyone have pictures from these
CCL Crossings
CCL x Gold Laced Wyandotte
CCL x Welsummer

 

[GaryDean26]

I have seen photos for both of these Crossings on the BYC forms over the years.

Anyone have pictures from these
CCL Crossings
CCL x Gold Laced Wyandotte
CCL x Welsummer

You might try looking at these threads

1) Cream Legbar / Silver Laced Wyandotte Thread
2) The Olive-Egger Thread

 

[comish83]

Cream Legbar roo over a black double laced Barnevelder gives me what?
Or
Barnevelder roo over creamlegbar hen?

Any sort of sex link? Assuming no for Legbar roo maybe fr barne roo?
Are chicks at all sexabke or no
Colors at hatch? Vs purebred barne?

Edited to add I have my own answer lol someone hatched out some of my eggs
The barnie too x Legbar hen are sex links

Boy

Girl

Do you have any images of eggs the resultant pullet/hen above (Barnevelder Roo x CL Hen) produced? Curious what they look like. Assume olive/green?

 

[AmandaPenfold]

Hi, I have 8 hybrid hens who were mated by a cream legbar rooster and some of the eggs are due to hatch in 9 days.

I'm excited to see the results and have been reading this long, passionate and confusing thread with interest.

Any ideas what the chicks might look like from these ladies and the dad?

 

[GaryDean26]

They will all have small white dots on their head. That is a marking for the barring gene that the Legbar father will pass to all the offspring. The Father is pure bread for the wild type plumage which is shown as chipmunk stripes chick down. That down type is recessive to a lot of other down types though. I see some red hybrids in your flock they would have all been yellow chick down from the Wheaten color pattern. The yellow color pattern is dominant to the chipmunk pattern so you could get some yellow chicks, but the yellow pigments are not really strong so you will often get mostly yellow chicks with some chipmunk markings showing through. Also, there are red color enhancer genes that show up with reddish pigments in the chick down. They will darken up the yellow down, but the have no effect of the chipmunk stripes so any red color enhancers will likely intensify the chipmunk markings on the wheaten based chicks. I see a black, a barred, and an Andalusian blue bird in the flock. All of them will have either the Birchen or the Extended Black primary color patters. They produce black chicks, but if they are hybrids they could be hidden wild type, hidden wheaten, or hidden brown (brown or black chick down with a yellow or white head). They can pass either the extended black or the hidden recessive chick down to their offspring, but not both. If they pass the black down type their offspring will be black since that is dominant. If they pass a wild type or Brown type their offspring will be chipmunk striped and if they pass the Wheaten they will look the same as the offspring from the red hens. I also see some Columbian Crosses in the flock. The Columbian can be either the brown primary color pattern of the Wheaten color pattern. The Brown color pattern Siver Columbians have grey down color with white heads and the wheaten are and Orange color when they are pure (Columbian genes from both parents). They are yellow when they don't have any Columbian genes, and they are yellow with an orange neck when they have just one Columbian gene. Your hens both look like they were crosses. Likely sexlinks made from Deleware crosses. So they can either pass on one Columbian gene which would result in the orange collar or no Columbian genes that would result in them being yellow (if they are wheaten based). The Brown color pattern is recessive to the Wild Type so if the Columbians are brown-based they chicks should be chipmunk patterned but the gray pigments are stronger than the tan colors so you may get the black showing through to where the chicks will be grey but with brown heads with the stripes and heavy eyeliner. They will be a mixed bag for sure with a little bit of everything.

 

[AmandaPenfold]

Oh wow. That's pretty amazing. I can't wait to see how they all come out. The hens are all hybrids. Here's a few more pictures of them.

 

[AmandaPenfold]

Four chicks hatched so far. Not sure which hens they are from though.

Totally gorgeous. No activity in the other 10 eggs, but I'll wait for a few days to see if any of those hatch too.

 

[AmandaPenfold]

A few more pics

 

[klweber2002]

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Oh goodness is it ever cute!