Cream Legbars

[CibolaChooks]

Black - boy has spot on head, girl has no spot.
Red - this depends a lot on the cross. Boys are white at hatch and girls are cinnamon colored BUT how white and how "red" depends on what cross you make. Some only have their cheeks that color... it's weird.

My Cl x RIW are that way. the differences at hatch are not so clear(but there is subtle differences) but just a few weeks in when the feathers start to come in you will see pure white boys and the girls start to become a chamois color like amber links. so technically they would be sexable a few weeks in. which is still nice that its not months.

 

[normanack]

so on the crosses you got the feathered feet did one of parents have feathered shanks or is this something that can come from crosses due to the genes even if the parents dont. 

Genetically speaking, I don't know. In this particular instance it went along with Silkie black skin and extra toes from the Silkie fathers, with hock feathers I assume from the Mille Fleur d'Uccles hen.

 

[1muttsfan]

There are 3 known genes, both incompletely dominant and recessive, involved with leg and foot feathering, along with supressors which may also be dominant or recessive. Very complicated.

 

[Jessica Lynn]

The males of each color will be barred (baby boys will have a spot on their head), black sex link girls will be solid black and red sex link girls will be solid red (?not sure on this one). I have not created sex links this is just my understanding from my web perusals- someone else can correct me if I'm wrong!

Black - boy has spot on head, girl has no spot.
Red - this depends a lot on the cross. Boys are white at hatch and girls are cinnamon colored BUT how white and how "red" depends on what cross you make. Some only have their cheeks that color... it's weird.

Thank you!

 

[HaplessRunner]

Since the topic of crossing cream legbars has come up, I would like to provide some info and pics on my experience. As posted previously, I have 3 CCL roos that were two weeks younger than my two pullets. These three roos hit sexual maturity much sooner than my pullets so I placed a number of my laying flock in there to take the pressure off the rising pullets. I put one EE and and three RIR hens in with these boys to keep them occupied. It worked very well. So I decided to hatch these eggs out to see what I got. They started hatching today.

This is the EE hen I placed in with the CCL roos. She is about the same size as the CCL pullets.



This is the chick that hatched yesterday from the CCL x EE pairing.









Note the eye lines and stripes on the back. While there may be a spot on the head, I am not certain that represents anything. My guess is typical EE chick markings. Thoughts?

Two CCL x RIR hatched and these are the pictures of those chicks. These chicks hatched today.














Note the red down with the eye liner and striping on the backs.

One chick had a slightly curled foot. So the band aid was applied. I removed it after about 4 hours and it seems to have resolved.

I had 14 eggs in the incubator that went into lock down from these pairings. There seems like there will be a high number of late quitters. A quick candling did not provide promising results or indications of internal pipping. And yes, humidity was maintained >65%.

Thoughts on these crosses?

 

[heirloomorps]

All your chicks will be barred as the roo will pass his barring genes onto all of his offspring. That EE/CCL cross should be interesting!

With CCL eggs I find that 65% humidity is too high. We try and keep it between 55-60%.

 

[HaplessRunner]

I have been doing dry hatches and trying to improve my results. My humidity has been running 25-30% during the bulk of the incubation period. I now only raise the humidity in the last few days when I expect them to be hatching.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I have been doing dry hatches and trying to improve my results. My humidity has been running 25-30% during the bulk of the incubation period. I now only raise the humidity in the last few days when I expect them to be hatching.

That is what I do, as well, but I try to keep the end humidity at about 60% during hatch. I find if it creeps up closer to 70% though the chicks start getting sticky and I lose more of them as late quitters. It is working well for me so far.

 

[KPenley]

My best hatches via incubator were when I kept everything around 30-35% humidity, even during lockdown. Of course, it is extremely humid here naturally.

 

[familypendragon]

This was from a local egg ( my first attempt at hatching a CCL myself) - think its a girly right?