Cream Legbars

[Bantambird]

Newest hatch of cream( or probably crele) legbars. Numbers are getting a little better and so I'll continue sexing them and posting to hopefully help others sex their own. I'm thinking I could post a video of every cream legbar hatch so there's a good sampling.

 

[Cerise1924]

Reposting my query here, at the suggestion of an experienced BYCer-

I had hatching eggs shipped from a Olandsk Dwarf roo over Cream Legbar hen pairing. Only one hatched. Here's the chick at two weeks. It should have been sexable at birth by a cream spot on the head, I believe, but the chick hatched with all cream down, so that didn't work.

Now, the chick is all cream with the palest wheat barring on the wings. The breeder says that none of the chicks she has hatched from the roo and hen cross have looked anything like this. The chick is also fairly big. I would not have guessed it was half Olandsk. It's huge compared to my Sebrights of the same age, and as big as the biggest Svart Hona.

I don't breed chickens myself, so I don't know... is it possible for a hen to lay a clutch of eggs and have one that was fertilized by a different roo than the rest? If you have raised Legbars or Olandsk Dwarves, do you see that breed in this chick? Is this beak typical of a CL, or is this chick's beak more blunt and triangular? Is it normal to have one chick that looks nothing like dozens of others from the same cross?

Thanks for any input you may have. I have tried making inquiries on a Cream Legbar Hybrid thread, but it does not seem to be very active.

 

[Bantambird]

I know little about olandsk dwarves, so it's hard to say what influences are from whom. Cream legbars can present a very large range of wild type down patterns while remaining sexable. Ralphie has white legbars, and supposedly they are still sexable but the white spot can be hard to discern on the blonde chick.

 

[duluthralphie]

Those legs are not legbar. Way too thick. I am guessing boy based on the legs. but who knows.

 

[Cerise1924]

I know little about olandsk dwarves, so it's hard to say what influences are from whom. Cream legbars can present a very large range of wild type down patterns while remaining sexable. Ralphie has white legbars, and supposedly they are still sexable but the white spot can be hard to discern on the blonde chick.

Those legs are not legbar. Way too thick. I am guessing boy based on the legs. but who knows.

Thank you both so much for your input. I'll wait and see what this thick legged cream puff turns into. I was hoping for blue eggs, but if it's not Legbar and not a hen... I guess I'll be doubly out of luck!

 

[Bantambird]

Thank you both so much for your input. I'll wait and see what this thick legged cream puff turns into. I was hoping for blue eggs, but if it's not Legbar and not a hen... I guess I'll be doubly out of luck!

If it is half legbar, it has the potential to lay light blue eggs, since it would have one blue egg Gene, and the dwarves apparently lay a white or cream colored egg. If you were to cross such a hen, it would be hard to tell what you get after that, as f2 are not very predicable

 

[Cerise1924]

If it is half legbar, it has the potential to lay light blue eggs, since it would have one blue egg Gene, and the dwarves apparently lay a white or cream colored egg. If you were to cross such a hen, it would be hard to tell what you get after that, as f2 are not very predicable

The chick did hatch from a blue-green egg, so if it turns out to be a hen, then it may lay blue eggs, despite being a cross-breed? Thanks, that's what I had been hoping.

However, as you can see from the top down pic, finding a light spot on a light head is tough to do. So, I still can't tell if it's pullet or cockerel, unless someone with better eyes can tell if that head is spotted or spotless!

 

[WVduckchick]

@Auroradream26 our little fella is getting his crow.
(first crow in background is my OEGB)

 

[aart]

Are legbars particularly precocious?
My BCMxCCL boys all seem rather early crowers and 'maters'.
Got rid of 3 at 12 weeks as they would not stop jumping the youngers,
now the youngers(8wks) are crowing and grabbing necks. SMH.

CCL pullet at 7wks..... Doin' the Do:

 

[OneMountainAcres]

@Auroradream26 our little fella is getting his crow.
(first crow in background is my OEGB)

Lol, adorable!