Cream Legbars

[La Vivi]

I have 5 cream legbar pullets and one of my white silkies recently announced that he is a rooster. Does anyone know what would happen if I were to hatch their future eggs? Would the chicks grow up to lay blue, green or a different color egg? What would the chicks look like? Has anyone ever tried this cross before?

 

[ChicKat]

I have 5 cream legbar pullets and one of my white silkies recently announced that he is a rooster. Does anyone know what would happen if I were to hatch their future eggs? Would the chicks grow up to lay blue, green or a different color egg? What would the chicks look like? Has anyone ever tried this cross before?

The blue egg gene will dominate - your chicks will be heterozygous for that and have one blue egg gene and the other gene to match your silky. The silky feathering is recessive so the chicks will have feathers that appear normal and carry the recessive silky feathering gene. - I'm not sure how many toes your chicks would have, or what their comb and leg color would be etc. You may want to visit the Cream Legbar Hybrid thread - here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/825092/cream-legbar-hybrid-thread/1270#post_13961617

Maybe someone has already done the cross you are speaking of.

BTW welcome to Backyard Chickens

 

[chicken pickin]

I have 5 cream legbar pullets and one of my white silkies recently announced that he is a rooster. Does anyone know what would happen if I were to hatch their future eggs? Would the chicks grow up to lay blue, green or a different color egg? What would the chicks look like? Has anyone ever tried this cross before?

I have never tried this cross but do know it will produce sexlink chicks in 2 ways, first the CL hens will pas the barring gene to all the sons giving them a head spot as a chick. Second is by skin color, when you cross silkies(black skin) the hens with white skin and yellow legs that is also sexlink. The chicks from this cross will produce female chicks having black skin and legs and males that have yellow skin and legs.

As for egg color, Silkies egg gene is whitish to a light cream so all offspring should lay green eggs possibly blue/green. Depending on the silkie there could be a chance for a more blue egg. Like I said though I have never done this cross.

 

[La Vivi]

Thanks! For the replies!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Well my shipping days from Greenfire Farms are over thanks to the post office. I tried this spring to unsuccessfully purchase some spitzhauben chicks on RareBreeds, 3 boxes of chicks total all dead at arrival or within a week. Took another chance last month on a Rees line auction again on RareBreeds, two boxes of nearly dead chicks later I have two pairs and that's all I'm going to get. GFF won't ship to my area anymore because of the dratted post service. I don't blame them! And they did make it right by refunding the auctions both times. Crossing my fingers I can get these babies to maturity!

 

[bamadude]

Where is rare breeds auction?

 

[KPenley]

I have 5 cream legbar pullets and one of my white silkies recently announced that he is a rooster. Does anyone know what would happen if I were to hatch their future eggs? Would the chicks grow up to lay blue, green or a different color egg? What would the chicks look like? Has anyone ever tried this cross before?

I had a couple of these accidental Barkies, but it was my Legbar roo over the white Silkie. They grew to lay olive colored small eggs ( great layers). The chicks looked a lot like Legbars (sexing could be done at hatch), but they had 5 toes. They had a red walnut comb, dark skin, 5 toes, and feathered feet. hth

Chicks with their Legbar mom, the one in front is a Barkies

great broody

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Where is rare breeds auction?

It's a poultry auction website with realtime auctions. Don't want to break any BYC rules linking, but you can search it.

 

[bamadude]

Thanks

 

[La Vivi]

I had a couple of these accidental Barkies, but it was my Legbar roo over the white Silkie. They grew to lay olive colored small eggs ( great layers). The chicks looked a lot like Legbars (sexing could be done at hatch), but they had 5 toes. They had a red walnut comb, dark skin, 5 toes, and feathered feet. hth

Chicks with their Legbar mom, the one in front is a Barkies

great broody

Barkies is a cute nick name. I hope mine will lay olive eggs too. Do you have any pics of their eggs?