Cream Legbars with peacombs

[mandelyn]

I've been messing around with Legbar genetics and it's entirely possible to cross them and get something that looks close. This pullet looks pretty Legbar like but she's an F2 hybrid. She has a Walnut comb.

In contrast, here is one of the pure Legbars used in her making.

 

[R2elk]

I've been messing around with Legbar genetics and it's entirely possible to cross them and get something that looks close. This pullet looks pretty Legbar like but she's an F2 hybrid. She has a Walnut comb.

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In contrast, here is one of the pure Legbars used in her making.

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From my understanding, the Walnut comb is due to a single Pea comb gene plus a single Rose comb gene (PR).

The most common outcross for Cream Legbars is to cross them with Brown Leghorns and then breed back in the blue egg gene. The F1 crosses will lay blue eggs even though they only have one blue egg gene. Phenotypically the cross can be difficult to distinguish from a Cream Legbar but it does tend to increase the egg production and the size of the eggs.

I used Rose Comb Brown Leghorns to bring in the Rose comb to my Legbars. My Rose Comb Legbars lay much better than do my Cream Legbars and their eggs once past the pullet stage are bigger than the eggs I get from my Cream Legbars.

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

Thanks for all your help and explanations! Really gave me something to get started on and I understand it a lot better now.
I love the hen color in the photo, and that comb looks way more manageable on the ccockrel.

Here is a photo with my single boy. The pullet in the front is the weirdest of the bunch
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Can you get a closeup picture of his face?

 

[BlueBaby]

From my understanding, the Walnut comb is due to a single Pea comb gene plus a single Rose comb gene (PR).

The most common outcross for Cream Legbars is to cross them with Brown Leghorns and then breed back in the blue egg gene. The F1 crosses will lay blue eggs even though they only have one blue egg gene. Phenotypically the cross can be difficult to distinguish from a Cream Legbar but it does tend to increase the egg production and the size of the eggs.

I used Rose Comb Brown Leghorns to bring in the Rose comb to my Legbars. My Rose Comb Legbars lay much better than do my Cream Legbars and their eggs once past the pullet stage are bigger than the eggs I get from my Cream Legbars.

Yes, I know the Cream Legbar's lay a smaller egg. I like bigger egg's, so I crossed my single combed Cream Legbar hen with a white Naked Neck rooster that I had. I kept a pullet from that and she's laying bigger green egg's and is a better layer. Except for the bit of a crest, you really can't tell that she had been mixed like that. She doesn't have the Cream Legbar coloring.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

From my understanding, the Walnut comb is due to a single Pea comb gene plus a single Rose comb gene (PR).

The most common outcross for Cream Legbars is to cross them with Brown Leghorns and then breed back in the blue egg gene. The F1 crosses will lay blue eggs even though they only have one blue egg gene. Phenotypically the cross can be difficult to distinguish from a Cream Legbar but it does tend to increase the egg production and the size of the eggs.

I used Rose Comb Brown Leghorns to bring in the Rose comb to my Legbars. My Rose Comb Legbars lay much better than do my Cream Legbars and their eggs once past the pullet stage are bigger than the eggs I get from my Cream Legbars.

Neat project! Are you intentionally trying to breed in the rose comb, or is that just a side effect of getting the leghorn enhances egg laying genes into your CCL? If you are intentionally breeding for rose comb, is your aim to eliminate the “floppy beret” effect have the crest + single comb that CCLs tens towards?

 

[R2elk]

Neat project! Are you intentionally trying to breed in the rose comb, or is that just a side effect of getting the leghorn enhances egg laying genes into your CCL? If you are intentionally breeding for rose comb, is your aim to eliminate the “floppy beret” effect have the crest + single comb that CCLs tens towards?

I am intentionally breeding in the Rose comb which is why I used Rose Comb Brown Leghorns instead of regular Brown Leghorns. I am now getting to the point that I have Rose Comb Legbar hens that I know have two blue egg genes. There is just no way to look at the roosters and tell if they have one or two blue egg genes. Based on my breeding results from last spring I believe the rooster used did have two blue egg genes but I can't use him again because I ate him. It does however give better odds of two blue egg genes for the cockerels that I kept this year.

My end goal is to have Rose Comb Legbars that have a small crest and lay blue eggs. The ones that have two blue egg genes tend to lay a darker blue egg than the ones that only have one blue egg gene.

 

[Mixed flock enthusiast]

I am intentionally breeding in the Rose comb which is why I used Rose Comb Brown Leghorns instead of regular Brown Leghorns. I am now getting to the point that I have Rose Comb Legbar hens that I know have two blue egg genes. There is just no way to look at the roosters and tell if they have one or two blue egg genes. Based on my breeding results from last spring I believe the rooster used did have two blue egg genes but I can't use him again because I ate him. It does however give better odds of two blue egg genes for the cockerels that I kept this year.

My end goal is to have Rose Comb Legbars that have a small crest and lay blue eggs. The ones that have two blue egg genes tend to lay a darker blue egg than the ones that only have one blue egg gene.

I see. We are breeding olive eggers and wanted to use CCL for the blue gene but most of ours have died of Marek’s so I’m down to one hen. We have Ameraucana pullets so may switch to those, though we love the crested hybrids out of our CCLs! Do you prefer the rose comb for winter hardiness?

 

[R2elk]

I see. We are breeding olive eggers and wanted to use CCL for the blue gene but most of ours have died of Marek’s so I’m down to one hen. We have Ameraucana pullets so may switch to those, though we love the crested hybrids out of our CCLs! Do you prefer the rose comb for winter hardiness?

Rose combs are definitely more winter hardy but the fact is I just like their look.

 

[ManWithChicks]

Dont have a super sharp or good angle shot currently. I'll take some shots tomorrow. Here is one though.

 

[ManWithChicks]