Cream Legbar Working Group: Standard of Perfection

[nicalandia]

My first two little boys looked fairly silver

That was their hatch day..... my next set of boys is very much darker. HOWEVER, take all I say about colors with a shaker of salt---because I got a 93, then subsequently a 68 on the color acuity test.

Here is one of the later ones



Those cream legbars are so tricky. If you want more baby pics and even a little video---you can scroll through the photos on my blog.

I´m more interested on the female chicks..

 

[nicalandia]

Is lemon a diluted red enhancer or is it a form of cream? Gosh, I need to read and re-read if I'm going to figure this out!!

Lemon is just a color, it can be achieved in many genetic ways, Cream is just one of them, I can name about 5 more but I´ll be confusing you even more that you are

 

[nicalandia]

Those cream legbars are so tricky. If you want more baby pics and even a little video---you can scroll through the photos on my blog.

I wonder why are you getting Dark boys and Light boys, double shot of barring should lighten a chick down, maybe he is a heterozygous male(single barring) can you separate your dark colored male chicks and track their progress..


I wonder wy Punnett didnt use a better autosexing "e" allele, eb and ER are better than e+ asfar as autosexing goes

 

[MnMPoultry]

I'm seeking out gold legbar photos. Could we have gold crossed with cream legbars here in the US? It would give us some of the look and blue eggs!

I suppose anything is possible. Maybe something to ask GFF about their stock, because I think my chicks parents were chicks from GFF.

 

[nicalandia]

I suppose anything is possible. Maybe something to ask GFF about their stock, because I think my chicks parents were chicks from GFF.

they will just keep saying they have Pure birds, which I believe they believe this with their heart, I just dont cant see it that way when I put my genetic eye glasses

 

[MnMPoultry]

They may be pure in their eyes, but the real question is if they mixed their imported stock with Gold Legbars to increase the diversity of their originals, and where did the recessive white come from?

 

[MnMPoultry]

From GFF:
Quote: If I remember, at one point, someone was getting green/olive eggs from GFF legbars and pointed out that their page said something about "3rd generation of being pure cream legbar" or something. I have to do some digging to see if I can turn up the posts.

It seems to me, if they didn't outcross, we are/were/would be suffering from extremely limited gene pools off the bat, and I would reckon they crossed something in at one point at the beginning.

Off to research...

 

[MnMPoultry]

I give up... I'm not going to find it. My search-fu is weak tonight. Maybe I imagined it, or it was about a different breed from GFF, but I don't think it would be...

 

[KPenley]

They may be pure in their eyes, but the real question is if they mixed their imported stock with Gold Legbars to increase the diversity of their originals, and where did the recessive white come from?

A very happy White Leghorn or Silver Legbar??? Please feel free to correct me, but doesn't "pure" just require 4 generations?

 

[nicalandia]

Please feel free to correct me, but doesn't "pure" just require 4 generations?

No, a pure line can Only be completely achieved by test mating to pure wildtype(RJF comes to mind, but Brown Leghorn could work) and then do a F1xF1 hatch about 100 eggs and wait for a surprice, if nothing unexpected(genetically speaking) then you have an stable pure line, if by any chance you get pure white birds and/or other phenotype then, you are still not at the pure stage get