Cream Legbars

[sol2go]

Very beautiful little pullet. The rest are very nice too, but I really love that pullet. Hmmm, I have a few I am not sure that they are too. I was thinking I might have hatched an EE egg... But now I see that girl I better grow them out some.

That is interesting…?

 

[KendyF]

That is interesting…?

Well, I still might have hatched an EE, although no signs of puffy cheeks and a straight comb. I need to get a new picture, the wild "color" is more defined now.

Any how on to the ones I know are legbars, I have this little couple I am growing out... They are interesting and a little different.

On FB, a gentleman said he thought the Roo would have too much color, which I am sure that is true by that group's standards, I was having a hard time "seeing" what gives that away at this age? Anyone?

 

[KendyF]

Was trying to get their crests to show up... The one on the right has a nice large crest, I posted this picture before, but I had added a black "frame" around them and it made their legs look blue. They are brown feathered, not gray. Their neck feathers look fairly cream in the sunshine, and a bit yellow in the shade. I think they are beautiful. However their colors lend much more to warm.

Their legs are a pale willow vs yellow. These girls represent most of my hens. I don't think I have any with a gray base. Some are more or less barred and a lighter tan or brown.

 

[Bean789]

This year I am seeing between 10 and 20% whites. I have a mixed line flock, so the coloring of my males is all over the map. I had a couple whites hatch 2 years ago. I switched roosters last year and had no whites. I sold last years rooster and clearly the son that I am breeding from has the white recessive gene and probably more than one of the hens must too. The white gene is probably in the straight combed stock that I am opting for. I have only gotten male and both have large crests, but one of my egg customers got 2 pairs from 2 dozen eggs.




Along this same line of questioning, your breeding stock is several lines of CLs and at some point, you are getting white chicks. Love that part. Do the white females lay blue eggs as CL usually do or has your friend not gotten any females to POL to test the waters as yet? She got 2 pairs of whites! OMG! To die for! LOL

Since my white is a mix, I am thinking of breeding him (if it truly is a roo) back to an unrelated CL female to see what pops out. I am still not sure of the sex of the one I have because he/she has the CL hen type tail, but hasn't split or gone wonky as yet. I don't usually breed CCLs, just wanted those pretty blue eggs, so I don't know at what age the males present with the tail.

I just love my little white chick and would like more of them. I know, with genetics, the more I breed them nad keep to the whites, the more the recessive white gene gets filtered into each future generation. There will always be more like the normal CLs too, I am sure. (Those genetics books get waaayyy over my head.)

I have my mixed Sulmtaler/CCLs, 3 Sulmtaler females (I think), 2 CCLs females (1 GFF C line and 1 Jill Rees line), and 1 Jill Rees male (won an auction of 8 of them and still 1 unsold) with a lighter head color than the others I had before. I kept him for last because of his head color and I could always 'throw' him in with the EEs.

Thanks for the info thus far. Awesome thread and hope to read in its entirety soon.

 

[Bean789]

If your mixed offspring hatched yellow/white and feathered in solid white, then both parents would have to carry the recessive white gene, unless someone can offer another explanation.

I have seen both males and females. When they are a result of a CLxCL pairing, they also have the auto-sexing characteristics, although very faint chipmunk markings.
The CL parent would look "normal" but carry a recessive gene for white feathering which would not be known until mated with another carrier.

Nice! Thanks! My Sulmtaler/CCL mix are from a Wheaten Sulmtaler mating so somewhere in that breed, could very well be the more creamy genetics going on.

 

[Flaming Chicken]

Along this same line of questioning, your breeding stock is several lines of CLs and at some point, you are getting white chicks. Love that part. Do the white females lay blue eggs as CL usually do or has your friend not gotten any females to POL to test the waters as yet? She got 2 pairs of whites! OMG! To die for! LOL

Since my white is a mix, I am thinking of breeding him (if it truly is a roo) back to an unrelated CL female to see what pops out. I am still not sure of the sex of the one I have because he/she has the CL hen type tail, but hasn't split or gone wonky as yet. I don't usually breed CCLs, just wanted those pretty blue eggs, so I don't know at what age the males present with the tail.

I just love my little white chick and would like more of them. I know, with genetics, the more I breed them nad keep to the whites, the more the recessive white gene gets filtered into each future generation. There will always be more like the normal CLs too, I am sure. (Those genetics books get waaayyy over my head.)

I have my mixed Sulmtaler/CCLs, 3 Sulmtaler females (I think), 2 CCLs females (1 GFF C line and 1 Jill Rees line), and 1 Jill Rees male (won an auction of 8 of them and still 1 unsold) with a lighter head color than the others I had before. I kept him for last because of his head color and I could always 'throw' him in with the EEs.

Thanks for the info thus far. Awesome thread and hope to read in its entirety soon.

The sport white Cream Legbar do lay blue eggs. My friends whites are just chicks and not at POL yet. If you breed a cross male to a Sport white female you may introduce a different color egg gene. I know some EE's lay brown eggs and some Cream Legbar lay white or brown eggs. At some point they were crossed out and that unexpected color shows up.

 

[Bean789]

The sport white Cream Legbar do lay blue eggs. My friends whites are just chicks and not at POL yet. If you breed a cross male to a Sport white female you may introduce a different color egg gene. I know some EE's lay brown eggs and some Cream Legbar lay white or brown eggs. At some point they were crossed out and that unexpected color shows up

Thanks for that info. Genetics and egg colors get me as to what is carried forward when they are mixed.

I might need another coop soon to keep them together. LOL OMG! Another coop!?!?!?!

 

[sol2go]

Thanks for that info. Genetics and egg colors get me as to what is carried forward when they are mixed.

I might need another coop soon to keep them together. LOL OMG! Another coop!?!?!?!

probably not the last one either…=)

 

[azygous]

I'm brand new to CLs. I have one three-week old pullet and she's such a cuddle muffin, she just amazes me! But more than that, Strawberry, her name, will fall instantly asleep in my lap or any position she happens to be in, and if I'm stroking the back of her neck, she relaxes so completely she appears, well, dead! Her skinny little neck will go completely limp while she's in her zone of ecstasy!

Is this a normal Legbar behavior trait? Or do I just have a particularly laid back individual. She's one of four chicks, the others are Marans. She's by far the one who most loves lap time and being stroked and cuddled.

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

Well, mine aren't quite that snuggly and relaxed but I do find them to be friendly and curious. I am usually tripping over them when walking around the coop and yards. I have one that is a particular busy body and if I am around she has to know what I am up to.