Cream Legbars

[DirtRoadChicks]

You know how they were talking about sexlinked olive eggers before Ralphie? Well.... My Jake got in with the legbars and covered all the girls.
You can see the white head spot on the male here.... Jake is so very naughty!

So the olive over the legbar girls provided sex linked olive eggers?

 

[windyridgefarm]

So the olive over the legbar girls provided sex linked olive eggers?

Olive is {Blue(BB) x brown(bb)}= Bb 100% Olive

Olive(Bb) crossed with Legbar (BB) = BB, Bb so half will be sexlinked Olive and Half sexlinked blue

If you want all olive eggers use a Marans x Legbar

 

[DirtRoadChicks]

Olive is {Blue(BB) x brown(bb)}= Bb 100% Olive

Olive(Bb) crossed with Legbar (BB) = BB, Bb so half will be sexlinked Olive and Half sexlinked blue

If you want all olive eggers use a Marans x Legbar

I have olives and legbars I was just curious as to the autosexing trait. Would I need a certain olive egger with the legbar girls to produce autosexed chicks?

 

[windyridgefarm]

I have olives and legbars I was just curious as to the autosexing trait. Would I need a certain olive egger with the legbar girls to produce autosexed chicks?

Yes, There is a difference between sexlinked crosses (one time cross), and auto sexing (multiple generation), To get an autosexing olive egger you would need to have an autosexing brown layer crossed with a autosexing blue egg layer (Legbar). Since both are autosexing it would not matter which was the roo and which was the hen. There are some autosexing breeds that lay a green to light olive egg (isbars?)

 

[Bantambird]

My sexlinks are birchen Marans over legbar, but I have my Marans moved so he won't be making any more sexlinked olive eggers unless I get an order for them again.

 

[HenLeia]

Would you say these are male or female?
I'm confused by the spots on the head with the dark stripes down the back ( kinda chipmunk like)

 

[Bantambird]

The two bottom ones? Definitely male. All three are male there for sure. On the bottom ones that I can see well, there is no defining v shape containing the spot on the head. The striping is blurry and not well defined, and they are grayer than females should be.

 

[HenLeia]

The two bottom ones? Definitely male. All three are male there for sure. On the bottom ones that I can see well, there is no defining v shape containing the spot on the head. The striping is blurry and not well defined, and they are grayer than females should be.

Thanks for the confirmation, the top chick is a silkie. I'm so confused by this batch, the dad's were light and the mom's were chipmunk pattern. A chick from the last hatch was diffenately chipmunk just like the hens were. These just seem confused for CLB

 

[Bantambird]

Thanks for the confirmation, the top chick is a silkie. I'm so confused by this batch, the dad's were light and the mom's were chipmunk pattern. A chick from the last hatch was diffenately chipmunk just like the hens were. These just seem confused for CLB

Here's a basket of males of different colors I hatched in my own flock last year.

 

[HenLeia]

Here's a basket of males of different colors I hatched in my own flock last year.

Wow, such a mix of colors. Do their chick colors indicate what they will look like when they're grown?