Cream Legbars

[blackbirds13]

I have quite a few at my disposal about 16 good cream females - so I'm thinking maybe 4 or 5 to each but I'm making choices based on their generations so sons to moms and fathers to daughters to start the choice followed by other type, color and other characteristics. I may do a few cousins depending on what the girls look like and how much autosomal or other melanizer issues they have. Macbeth is going to get a few nice daughters and the barring of choice boy will get the oldest hens and a GFF girl to start. The youngest will get the GFF hens and some cousins. Then I'll switch things up again I think. I just need the weather to warm and dry up as my hens have muddy feet which is affecting my egg collection. I won't use straw or hay in the pens again given my last experience. We have flood watches right now and temps sinking back to freezing. It snowed on Tuesday night.

 

[Daloorashens]

It's been quite a while since I have posted on this thread.... Hope ya'll don't mind the question I have!!

One of my legbar hens is laying a creamy white egg.... I don't know enough about their genetics to know, what do you all think, could I put her in my Marans pen for some olive eggers or just use her as a layer? (She's laying very regularly)

Yes, I am sure it is her, I watched her lay one =)

 

[normanack]

It's been quite a while since I have posted on this thread....   Hope ya'll don't mind the question I have!!

One of my legbar hens is laying a creamy white egg....  I don't know enough about their genetics to know, what do you all think, could I put her in my Marans pen for some olive eggers or just use her as a layer?  (She's laying very regularly) 

Yes, I am sure it is her, I watched her lay one =)

It happens. I'm not sure how rare it is, but it has happened to at least two people on this thread (including me).

 

[enola]

Some one else posted about how disappointed they were when their pullet laid white eggs. Then they posted when the eggs got some size to them they turned blue.

The decision was when her egg making parts got in the groove the blue shell was the result!

 

[GaryDean26]

The blue egg gene is dominant so only one gene is required for the hens to lay blue eggs. If you are getting a cream colored egg you most likely have a cockerel and a hen as parents that are both only carriers for one blue egg gene.


Putting the Hen in a Marans Pen will only produce speckled brown eggs. To create Olive Eggers you need a bird that has two (2) copies of the blue egg gene. The offspring will then all result with one blue egg gene and will produce the blue egg shell that is the required base for olive eggs.

If you have multiple Legbar Cockerels I would suggest that you instead put a Marans hen in your Legbar Pens and track the hens from those paring. If 100% produce olive eggs you will know that your cockerel is pure for the Blue Egg gene and can use him for breeding. If you get 50% olive eggs and 50% speckled brown eggs you will know that your cockerel is not pure breed for the blue egg gene and you can remove him from you breeding pen.

The same thing can be done with the hens in the Legbar Pen. You can put one hen in the Marans pen at a time so you know what hen the egg is from (it will be the only blue egg in the pen). It is a lot of work but that is the only way I know to pure breed your line for the blue eggs gene.

More tips and information can be found here

 

[SlipsWife]

One of our younger pullets started laying! The older one seems to have stopped laying, we've gotten one egg in the last 10 days from her. Hopefully she's just molting! The blue eggs definitely make me smile!

 

[lawatt]

this is an interesting discussion, as i have a young isbar pullet who should be laying green eggs, but instead is laying peachy-colored ones. i'm not going to use her for breeding, but will be watching to see if the eggs develop any more green (i.e. the blue shell color kicking in later) over time!

 

[Ashdoes]

Pullet, right?

 

[dretd]

Pullet, right?

Looks pretty girly to me!

 

[Ashdoes]

Thanks.
She's one of the darkest we've gotten. I've noticed the darker girls tend to have a little spot, and our light girls only get a dusting, if anything.