Cream Legbars

[chicken pickin]

Sorry to stray off topic, but Im excited lol. My Rees birds are mating, I hope eggs are soon to follow

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[chicken pickin]

maybe the chicks would look like these Cream Legbars?
pullet


related cockerel


The pictures are a couple of weeks old.
The pullet is starting to get salmon chest feathers and the cockerel is starting to develop creamy looking saddle feathers (which actually look different than the current body color).

These CL are overall a very light gray, I like the look of them but haven't seen anything quite like the pullet. Im looking forward to a photo progression as they mature. Are they siblings from the same mating, do you have pictures of the parent birds?

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

Did you get your answer to the highlighted items above?
I thought you may have meant homozygous for cream? In which case the wing triangle is barred and does not show gold or any other color (it shows gold when not double for cream - as I understand it)

Thanks sol2go. I did mistype and actually meant homo. I think I am confusing red enhancements and chestnut and gold. That may just take me a while to sort out. So I think what I know now is that a bird that is homozygous for cream can still have red enhancements but no gold or chestnut. I am just not sure I know what the difference looks like.

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

Sorry to stray off topic, but Im excited lol. My Rees birds are mating, I hope eggs are soon to follow

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Yay for mating! Lol. My pullets (not Rees) are still not laying at 27 and 24 weeks. I think the early, very cold temps and snow we have received has wrecked my chance at eggs for the time being. Even my other hens have stopped laying.

 

[nicalandia]

They would be auto-sexing at any rate, so that counts for something.

not whithout homozygous Barring... thats why the Welbar was created, to make an autosexing welsummer

 

[nicalandia]

Thanks sol2go. I did mistype and actually meant homo. I think I am confusing red enhancements and chestnut and gold. That may just take me a while to sort out. So I think what I know now is that a bird that is homozygous for cream can still have red enhancements but no gold or chestnut. I am just not sure I know what the difference looks like.

Chestnut = is just an expression of Red enhancers,
Gold = is the sex linked gene the CL are based on s+/s+
crea = is an autosomal gold diluter ig/ig and the wildtype counter part is Ig+/Ig+ cream has some difficulties diluting red enhanced birds, specially on the shoulders
Red enhancers = Autosomal Red(found on Legbars and other breeds) its believed to be polygenic(more than one simple gene) its kind of hard to get rid of them..
Red enhancers= Mahognay one of the most powerfull red enhancers that have been documented, found on RIR, Not found on CL thank god


Single Barring has an effect on gold birds, but not as much as double barring, double barring is very very powerfull..

here are some gold based s+/s+ Red enhanced(autosomal Red and Mahogany) bird with a single copy of the barring gene.. these are part of a Rhodebar Improvement program(Rhodebar autosexing breed mated to RIR to bring back type and color)

 

[sol2go]

Sorry to stray off topic, but Im excited lol. My Rees birds are mating, I hope eggs are soon to follow

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That's a great topic!

 

[sol2go]

These CL are overall a very light gray, I like the look of them but haven't seen anything quite like the pullet. Im looking forward to a photo progression as they mature. Are they siblings from the same mating, do you have pictures of the parent birds?

This is a new look to me as well, yes siblings from same mating, there's a matching sister and brothers, with varying degrees of crest.
I'm also interested in the progression and keep photos for my records.
I'll ask the breeder if I can post the parent pic.

 

[Phage]

Sorry to stray off topic, but Im excited lol. My Rees birds are mating, I hope eggs are soon to follow .

My Rees boys were (trying to) hop on to their sisters at 9 weeks.

They are still young.

How do you find the boys - personalities and crowing as they age?
Due to the large crests the combs on most of the ones I have are not very straight, but otherwise I am loving the Rees.

 

[puss58]

Why is my roo walking so funny? He kind of looks like he's goose stepping.