Crested Cream Legbar

[The Moonshiner]

Since your rooster is silver based instead of gold based he and the one hen has zero value to a CCL breeding program. He won't produce any crested cream only more silver.
It would be best to box him and the hen up and ship them to me up here in Missouri. Second best option is to breed what you have and ship all eggs to me.
He will honestly do you no good for breeding nor will she. But if it was my birds I would see something pretty special. Make sure she lays blue eggs and if she does I would breed the heck out of them and then keep all offspring and continue on. You can use him over the cream hens but there would be issues I can explain more about if you wanted.
Anyways I would keep the pair and start your own crested silver legbar line. I doubt you'd get anywheres with the legbar groups but some backyard keeps may be interested in a legbar that is a little different and a bit unique. I would.
I'm unsure where you got them or exactly how they came to be. Would be interested to know.
They wouldn't be hard to make but I haven't heard of anyone working on a silver version.

 

[Henny Chesney]

Wait, so the silver roo and silver hen are unique? And why are they undesirable to CCL breeders? Because of the silver base?

I'm new to them. I accidentally got a cream legbar a year ago, in a group of other chicks. Had no clue what he was, but I liked him. He got hurt and had to be put down. I decided to start a little flock of them, found a nice lady selling three 10 week old pullets and a cockerel for $35. She hatches and sells them, from what I can tell.

What issues would come out of this roo with the two cream hens?

And thank you so much for the info. I appreciate it. Hard to learn about some breeds because of all the misinformation or confusion.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I would consider them unique just because there probably isn't many out there.
Yes they would be undiserable because they're silver based. Basically you have legbars that are the wrong color and will produce the wrong color.
What good is a bird if it isn't the color its supposed to be? To many no good at all. To a few like myself it is worth something just because it is different and a chance to work on a new color for the breed.
Its no different then the white legbars. Way back when I had them the whites wasn't worth anything. I gave all I ever hatched away for nothing. Then at some point people decided they were interesting enough to breed for them and now they've become popular enough that even the legbar club are in efforts to get them as an approved variety.
If it was me and I wanted to work with them first I'd make sure the hen laid blue eggs.
There has to be a reason they're silver instead of gold. I would think something else was mixed in at some point. Interesting though that they look very legbar and not a mixed breed. If I was going to make silver legbars I would cross in a silver leghorn which wouldn't be hard to use and then get back to the legbar type.
IDK what was used but for me the biggest concern would be egg color and to see if something else is in the mix like brown egg genes or non blue (white) genes.
Time will tell on that.
At this point there's a lot of unknowns with them so idk what you'd want to do with them or if you did want to work with them what you'd have to deal with in the next generation or two.
You have to understand I'm a color/pattern freak so don't expect everyone else to see anything special about them or at least probably not as exciting as I see them.
Also don't get the idea that hey I have something crazy unique I should breed the heck out of them, charge a fortune and be rich in no time. That probably won't happen.

 

[Henny Chesney]

When I said unique, I meant different, not that everyone would want them. And I'm fine with their coloring. We have a lot of chickens here for selling hatching eggs, eating eggs and meat, so the Legbars are my 'pets' and not in the same role as the others we have. Now I'm looking forward to the egg colors that these girls lay. And then I'll have to hatch a few and see what they lay.
I'm also going to get in touch with the breeder to see what she has going on, or if she knows why she's getting silver based legbars. Maybe that's why they were only $35 for all 4....haha

 

[The Moonshiner]

You know how silver/gold sex linked genes work?

 

[Henny Chesney]

No. I have a lot of reading to do. Any suggested sources?

 

[Amer]

Ok, so in the cock I'm seeing some common Legbar faults.
But, honestly, there aren't many better ones readily available. So he's okay.
Yes, the comb needs to be large, and no it's not supposed to fall over like that. That is a difficult thing to achieve in this breed, and I haven't seen many males with much better combs.
Fortunately, the hens seem to have unusually small combs for Legbars, and a little breeding could fix it.

 

[Amer]

Anyways, I have seen silver crele legbars, but they aren't very common.

 

[BGcoop]

So what color eggs do you get if you cross a CCL with a white egg layer?

 

[Amer]

So what color eggs do you get if you cross a CCL with a white egg layer?

Blue eggs.