Cream Legbar x with Barnevelder

[NatJ]

Hey just wondering how these guys ended up turning out? And do you have any photos of the parents? What colour and pattern was the barnivelder you began with? Did the pullet lay green eggs? I've only just found this thread and it's left me hanging!@

One of the posts did show the parents. They're labeled "Parent 1" (Cream Legbar cockerel) and "Parent 2" (bantam Barnevelder hen). It's about 6 posts ago.

 

[FaeryKate]

Just found this post too, what colour eggs are your new pullet / POL cross now laying please?

 

[Elegant_Breeds]

Thank you both @NatJ and @JedJackson - I was hoping so but great to have people much more experienced than me comment.

I'll aim to still keep posting photos of the pullet up to 12 weeks and then again at 18 weeks or so for anyone else's future reference.

Thank you but we are waiting for thier eggs

 

[Lauren86]

Do you know how fast your Barnevelder hen feathered in as a chick? I'm inclined to think they're a slow feathering breed because of the intricacy of their pattern, but not sure if that's actually the case.

If she was slow to feather in, then you would have created sexlinks with the cross. Legbars are fast featherers generally speaking, feathering in more at the rate of the chick on the left in your picture, and crossing a fast feathering male to a slow feathering female produces feather speed sexlinks where the male offspring are slow to feather and the female offspring are fast to feather.

However, if you don't know how fast the mother feathered in, then I would definitely wait to be sure on their sexes. Sometimes chicks feather at different rates for a variety of reasons, even within the same breed or cross, so it could just be one of those things. I'd just keep an eye out on the slow to feather one to make sure that he's keeping up otherwise.

Do barnivelders usually feather slowly? I have some at 9.5 months old its halfway through an aussie summer and they are moulting. But its like they never had their adult feathering in the first place. They are changing colour and they still have 'baby fluff' to loose. I also have 4 cream legbar pulletts that are 11 weeks old so would be greatful for any knowledge there too