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Cream Legbar Club
October 1 · Edited
I recently saw some confusion on "light" and "dark" colored Cream Legbar Cockerels. I though I would clarify here.
1) The difference between the recessive Cream color and the dominant Gold color.
Cream plumage is recessive in chickens... so it requires careful selection to breed this color into your flock. Cream Color cockerels are those that:
a) lack any gold colors in the secondary flight feathers.
b) have off white (cream) colored saddle feathers, and
c) have cream showing through the red/chestnut of the wing bow.
Gold cockerels will
a) will have gold colors on the secondary flight feathers.
b) will have gold with chestnut/copper colored saddle feathers, and
c) have solid red shoulders with no under colors showing through,
2) The difference between cockerels with Red Enhancement/Autosomal Red are that
a) Cockerels without Red Enhancement will have their shoulder, hackles, back, and saddles all be the same color. That color will be a yellow color in gold birds and an off-white color in cream birds.
b) Cockerels with incomplete levels of Red Enhancement will have hackle feathers, back, and saddle feathers that match, but the shoulder or wing bow will be darker red/chestnut.
c) Cockerels with complete Red Enhancement will have an uneven hackles and saddle feathers to where close to the head you have darker colors than you do at the base of the neck. You will also see red/chestnut on the back while the ends of the saddle feathers will be a lighter color than the back.
3) The difference between a single barred and double barred cockerel.
a) a single barred cockerel will have a dark slate tail that shows only faint grey barring to no barring at all. It will be overall much darker than a double barred cockerel. A double barred cockerel will have white barring on the tail and be a light grey color as opposed to the dark grey or slate color of a single barred cockerel.
4) The last difference is what I will call barring type for lack or the ability to describe it any better. Some cockerel will show light even cream or gold color on the hackles, back, and saddles, and a dark grey barring on the breast and legs giving the bird a distinct top color and bottom color. Other birds will have the same dark barring on the hackles and back as they do the breast and legs.
So what color is correct? For the Cream Variety of the Legbar Breed the correct colors are a) the recessive cream, b) light red enhancement but not so much that you get chestnut on the back or uneven hackle and saddle colors, c) double barring, and d) a cream color top and dark grey barred color bottom.
The confusion I have seen is people incorrectly attributing chestnut color from autosomal red enhancements to a lack or cream plumage, people incorrectly attributing single barred cockerels to lacking cream plumage or to being red enhanced, people incorrectly attributing a cockerel with dark barring on the neck and back to be lacking cream or to single barring, etc. Hopefully this will help you see what is causing your cockerel to look the way he does and help you in your selection in color. See More
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