Cream Legbars

[nicalandia]

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yes Only two females, and a combination of dark and normal colored males

 

[Ashdoes]

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yes Only two females, and a combination of dark and normal colored males

Thanks. Sold 14 eggs last month, and he hatched 9 of them...pretty good. Even if there's 7 boys there. Despite not wanting to sell eggs anymore, he's so nice and already asking for another dozen, I'll prob do it.

 

[ChicKat]

My first hatch - 5 each boy and girl.

Congrats - on those very chipmunk-y girls....love the stripes!

 

[VTcreamlegbars]

Congrats!! So excited to start our first CCL flock here in VT! Nice to see you on BYC.

 

[ChicKat]

Congrats!! So excited to start our first CCL flock here in VT! Nice to see you on BYC.

Wow!! Your first post - right here. Welcome to BYC and to the wonderful world of having Cream Legbars!

 

[VTcreamlegbars]

Thanks! I fell instantly in love with legbars and hope to eventually contribute to this amazing breed's development here in the US. You all ROCK! I will eventually make it over to the introductions, but this thread is one of my favs of course.

 

[ChicKat]

Thanks! I fell instantly in love with legbars and hope to eventually contribute to this amazing breed's development here in the US. You all ROCK! I will eventually make it over to the introductions, but this thread is one of my favs of course.

Of course!!

 

[HaplessRunner]

My first hatch - 5 each boy and girl.

@blackbirds13

Maria,

One of my pullets hatched out looking exactly like these. My others have been darker of varying shades. Before I lost and subsequent to losing all my adult birds, I had hatched and kept segregated a number of chicks and had some eggs in incubation that were from prior to exposure to MG/MS. Thankfully, all my chicks have tested clean and disease free by the State of Virginia.

My breeders were a heterozygous for cream pullet and cockerel and a homozygous for cream pullet. In hatching these eggs, I have had a male chick that was extraordinarily light similar to some pictures that you have posted. Additionally, I had a pullet that hatched with very light down similar to the pictures above. I know you now have a pure cream flock. So the proverbial question, if I have hatched out chicks that have down similarly colored to those that you have posted, would your experience indicate that these should grow out as pure cream (ig/ig) legbars?

All my chicks are approximately two months old or less with hatch dates of Feb 28, Mar 8, Mar 18, and Apr 5. The little boy that was very light was in the Mar 18 hatch and is still too young to have a clue yet. Likewise, the light girl was hatched on Apr 5. From these hatches, it appears that I have several cream girls, some heterozygous for cream girls, and a few gold girls. Several of the gold girls will move out this weekend.

Thanks!

Tony

 

[blackbirds13]

@blackbirds13

Maria,

One of my pullets hatched out looking exactly like these. My others have been darker of varying shades. Before I lost and subsequent to losing all my adult birds, I had hatched and kept segregated a number of chicks and had some eggs in incubation that were from prior to exposure to MG/MS. Thankfully, all my chicks have tested clean and disease free by the State of Virginia.

My breeders were a heterozygous for cream pullet and cockerel and a homozygous for cream pullet. In hatching these eggs, I have had a male chick that was extraordinarily light similar to some pictures that you have posted. Additionally, I had a pullet that hatched with very light down similar to the pictures above. I know you now have a pure cream flock. So the proverbial question, if I have hatched out chicks that have down similarly colored to those that you have posted, would your experience indicate that these should grow out as pure cream (ig/ig) legbars?

All my chicks are approximately two months old or less with hatch dates of Feb 28, Mar 8, Mar 18, and Apr 5. The little boy that was very light was in the Mar 18 hatch and is still too young to have a clue yet. Likewise, the light girl was hatched on Apr 5. From these hatches, it appears that I have several cream girls, some heterozygous for cream girls, and a few gold girls. Several of the gold girls will move out this weekend.

Thanks!

Tony

I'm hesitant to answer your questions as I always have some trepidation with each of my own hatches and also comparing my birds to others as my results sometimes have differed from what others have and are getting e.g. dark gray chicks equaling cream adults, my dark gray or dark anything chicks (even from GFF 2013) are always too colorful. I believe I have all cream but I know I had a few hetero girls that look cream when photographed but when placed side by side to a full cream female their slightly yellower toned hackle is more obvious. I had to go back this winter and give them a good look over after they molted and pulled 1 girl that just did not look right to me in person but photographs as cream but I know something was skewing my results last year.

I was told at the onset of this whole thing that I needed to go lighter and grayer/silvery when it came to chick down. In speaking with Jill Rees and Emily DeGray the advice was such. I have found that in my chick down the warmer toned girls or darker females will not grow up correctly, same for males even if they are a dark gray. I look for a nice light area between the chipmunk back stripes and a lighter cooler tone on the body, the strip on the head is usually not as black as the golden girls. I really have not paid too close attention to the differences in those with single or no ig genetics when it comes to down color as much as I could have. I've only looked at those with both as I have the luxury of being able to do so in ample supply. If the chicks are lighter and a cooler toned down then I'd say you are more likely to have a cream bird. Not seeing them myself I'd say you have a cream male and cream females if they are similar to what I have posted. But some folks get a different chick down which they say results in the same cream colored birds. I have issues with melanizers and enhancers so that may play a part in my down results also in a way that you may not have to account for.

The homozygous female would have give you fair odds to obtain cream as opposed to the hetero and hetero combination so some of them should be full cream given the genetic combinations possible. Congrats on your chicks and test results.

 

[Ruralpearls]

Aaakkk! I didn't realize that is was so technical. I am really interested in the breed and thought I would purchase some chicks. I looked up on a local sales page and saw that they were selling for rather high prices so I went to good old Ebay and found some hatching eggs. The listing I bought was for 6+ eggs at $10.99. I thought that was a pretty good deal, but does that mean I am going to get scruffy looking chicks that aren't anywhere near breed standard?? I was thinking that eventually I could sell some of their fertile eggs but I don't want to sell a mutt version if that makes sense? I am still really excited to my little blue egg layers and will love them all the same I am sure, but knowing whether there is some sort of standard as to how they should look will determine if I will sell the eggs or not.