Cream Legbars

[KPenley]

I'll get some pictures soon. This is a pure legbar flock, or at least should be. They have their own penned in area. All other roosters are isolated. Is the egg color changed by the rooster that fertilizes the egg, or just the parentage? I would think that only parentage would count.

I have no birds I hatched myself at this point. These are all from other breeders and I have no way to know how careful they were or were not on their breeding. These look to be legbars from all the pictures I've seen, but I will post soon.

I also have no way at this point to tell what bird is laying the egg as these are free range, within their fenced in area.

Like most genetics, genes for egg color come from both parents (ie. rooster and hen). If you want to test your birds, maybe you could switch off caging them for a bit and keeping records for the bird and the color eggs they produce. Hope that helps.

 

[ChicKat]

I've got a mixed flock facing its first sustained rain. My CL is the only one who manages to stay dry ALL the time. Furthermore, she's the only one to have enough sense to hop into my lap or onto my shoulder for a quick, warm nap in the midst of the wet.

estamets -

Heard about your rains in California -- hope you all come out well on the otherside. Anahem? Brings back ancient memories - I lived in Anaheim on Canton Avenue (I think that was the address, I rented a room from a lovely senior citizen who rented out rooms in her house). One of the house-mates worked at Disneyland at the Tahitian Terrace (I don't think Disneyland even has it anylonger) - and I worked at Club 33. Could even ride my bike to work at the park.

Congrats on the very smart CL - (can't resist here) who has enough sense to come in out of the rain.!!

LOL

 

[nicalandia]

I'll get some pictures soon. This is a pure legbar flock, or at least should be. They have their own penned in area. All other roosters are isolated. Is the egg color changed by the rooster that fertilizes the egg, or just the parentage? I would think that only parentage would count.

I have no birds I hatched myself at this point. These are all from other breeders and I have no way to know how careful they were or were not on their breeding. These look to be legbars from all the pictures I've seen, but I will post soon.

I also have no way at this point to tell what bird is laying the egg as these are free range, within their fenced in area.

where did you get your stock from? at some point GFF was cross breeding Legbars with Rhodbars and some Rhodebars owners have reported that they have got green eggs laying, I would guess that by now at least some Legbar owners would have reported some brown eggs popping from now and then....


and genetically thats the Only possible way the brown egg gene/genes could have hitched hike their way to Legbars as any outcross to proper leghorns to improve type would have resulted in white eggs instead of brown...

 

[badflash]

http://s25.photobucket.com/user/badflash/Cream Legbars/story
is a photobucket album of the pics I took today. There is a picture of the eggs. A large white eggs from one of my turkins is shown as a reference.

 

[badflash]

where did you get your stock from? at some point GFF was cross breeding Legbars with Rhodbars and some Rhodebars owners have reported that they have got green eggs laying, I would guess that by now at least some Legbar owners would have reported some brown eggs popping from now and then....

Got the chicks from 2 local breeders. I will contact them to see if they know anything.

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

From the pictures in your link, one of your roosters looks like a hybrid. Your females all look like cream legbars from what I can tell but that suspicious roo tells me that they may not be pure.

 

[nicalandia]

http://s25.photobucket.com/user/badflash/Cream Legbars/story
is a photobucket album of the pics I took today. There is a picture of the eggs. A large white eggs from one of my turkins is shown as a reference.

I have looked at the females to see any sign of recent outcross, but so far they seem to be like any other legbar pullets/hens you see posted in here... an interesting thing about the blue egg shell gene and the P linkage is that when the O/O P/P linkage is broken, its really not broken at all, the O/O migrates and Recombinate to the p+ gene, so that O gene can be lost and you would not know till your pullets start laying.. one of more of these pullets lack the O gene and has two copies of o+ gene(o+/o+)

 

[badflash]

From the pictures in your link, one of your roosters looks like a hybrid.

Which one?

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

Which one?

If you look at the picture that is primarily roosters, it is the one in the very back. It does not look like a cream legbar to me.

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

You can also see him in front in the two pictures that show the front of your coop/shed.