Cream Legbars

[duluthralphie]

boys

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[Sylvester017]

I am not 100% sure what the question is. As said above if you use a Blue Copper Marans Cockerel (solid dark color based male) over Cream Legbars hens (barred females) we will get sex links. That means that all the ones with spots on the head (not matter how large or small) will be males and all the ones with out spots are females. As for the size of the spot there will always be some variation. If you were to line breed birds with a concentrated spots or line breed birds with large spots you would be able to increase the frequency of what you has selected for because like beget like, but even then you would see some variation. The cross to the Marans may be part of the variation too. Cuckoo varieties have the dark color base and chicks come out black with a head spot. They are NOT autosexing through because they can only be sexed with 80% accuracy and 100% accuracy is required to be an autosexing breed. The reason the Cuckoo can't be 100% auto sexing is becuse of this varriation in the size of the head spots and there are no other clues as to which is what. With the chipmunk pattern you aren't just looking for the head spot, you are also looking at the eye liner, the dorsal strips, the down color, etc.

@GaryDean26 Love your insight/knowledge. Is it just the Dom breed or do other Cuckoo breed chicks have, not only the head-spot sex identification but, also the darker legs/toes on the females? or is the darker legs only on the Dom breed female chicks? I previously got a Cuckoo Marans at POL so I never saw her as a chick to see what her legs/toes looked like.

 

[chrissyr]

Can I get your help in these CL? Same two, different shots

The one has the slightest dot. The other is bigger.
im pretty sure they're both boys but the one leaves me hesitating.
Thank you

 

[duluthralphie]

Can I get your help in these CL? Same two, different shots




The one has the slightest dot. The other is bigger.
im pretty sure they're both boys but the one leaves me hesitating.
Thank you

Both boys.. IMHO No head V, no chipmunk stripes.

 

[chrissyr]

Both boys.. IMHO  No head V, no chipmunk stripes.

thank you.
I forgot about the head V's. It's been a while since I hatched these. A little rusty, thank you

 

[Bluefield]

I had two accidental golden brakel hen crossed with a creamlegbar roo. Both had white dots.. one ended up a roo and the other a hen. She almost ended up with the rooster culls but she had a different voice..so I kept her. Little egg laying machine.

 

[duluthralphie]

I had two accidental golden brakel hen crossed with a creamlegbar roo. Both had white dots.. one ended up a roo and the other a hen. She almost ended up with the rooster culls but she had a different voice..so I kept her. Little egg laying machine.

I am not familiar with "golden Brakel" but lucky you did not may soup out of her then. What color egg?

I have a EE/CLB cross that lays daily the prettiest blue egg but it is small. The stupid hen got out for an hour and Ole, the EE rapist rooster, assaulted her and I have two ee/clb because of it. One is a rooster I am using on my EE's now because of the hen and her egg color.

 

[Bluefield]

Blue eggs..brakels are large campine that are not hen feathered. They lay med white eggs

 

[duluthralphie]

Blue eggs..brakels are large campine that are not hen feathered. They lay med white eggs

Thanks
Picture?

 

[RichardF]

This is just a F.Y.I. post anyone looking for crested cream leg-bar hatching eggs or chicks check out http://www.smitheypoultry.com/ Justin the owner is a really nice guy and has some beautiful birds he carry's the Rees line. I just purchased several poults from him, he is located in north Georgia.