Crested Cream Legbar

[Henny Chesney]

So if I cross this rooster with a california white leghorn, I'd get blue eggs? I'm very new to the genetics/colors.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Lol.
I hate reading so I wouldn't know an suggestions for that.
With sex linked genes hens/ pullets only have one spot for them instead of two spots like most genes.
Roosters/cockerels have two spots and like most genes they inherit one gene from each parent. Hens only inherit sex link genes from their fathers and only pass it to their sons.
Gold and silver are sex linked and silver is dominate over gold.
Silver basically takes away buff/red/gold colors and leaves those areas white. That's why your hen has silver hackles instead of gold and why your rooster is only black and white. You can compare your hens and see the difference and compare your rooster to Google pics of a CCL. You'll see how much color he is missing.
The salmon (reddish) breasts on all your hens is autosomal red that isn't effected by silver so not important but just so you understand why that red is present on silver birds.
Anyways a hen is either gold or silver and gets that gene from her father so whatever he passes is what she'll be.
Roosters can be two copies of silver, two copies of gold or one of each. Your rooster has two copies of silver so silver is all be can pass to his offspring. So when bred to your hens the silver or the gold all pullet offspring will be silver. Yes when bred to your cream hens the pullets will be silver. That's why be is no use for a cream breeding plan. His pullet offspring will be pure for silver so if you want to work on silvers you can use them without issue.
Now when bred to your silver hen all male offspring will receive a silver gene from the rooster and a silver gene from the silver hen. That means they will be pure for silver like your rooster and can be used in future breeding for silver.
The issue I referred to about breeding him to the cream hens is because the cockerel offspring will get silver from the father but gold from the cream hens.
They will look like silver chicks when hatched and while young since silver is dominate to gold.
When they mature they will get a yellowish look on hackles, back and saddle. That is the one copy of gold showing through the silver. Since they carry one gold gene they can pass gold or silver to their offspring. They will be useless really in your silver breeding because you won't want the gold gene getting bred forward.
So keep only cockerels from the one silver hen but keep all pullets from both color hens and you'll have all pure silvers for your next generation.

 

[Amer]

So if I cross this rooster with a california white leghorn, I'd get blue eggs? I'm very new to the genetics/colors.

Yes

 

[gunslinger33]

This thread is relative to CCL colors. What are the “opal” Legbar from.

 

[Amer]

This thread is relative to CCL colors. What are the “opal” CCL from?

Basically the lavender gene put on gold crele coloration.

 

[Kiki]

 

[The Moonshiner]

This thread is relative to CCL colors. What are the “opal” Legbar from.

They are from crossing crested cream legbars and Isabel leghorns.
They're barred + lavender on gold duckwing. They may or may not carry cream.

 

[gunslinger33]

I recently stumbled on them looking for some CCL.

Sorry for using your thread Henny. Good luck with your CCL

 

[Henny Chesney]

Lol.
I hate reading so I wouldn't know an suggestions for that.
With sex linked genes hens/ pullets only have one spot for them instead of two spots like most genes.
Roosters/cockerels have two spots and like most genes they inherit one gene from each parent. Hens only inherit sex link genes from their fathers and only pass it to their sons.
Gold and silver are sex linked and silver is dominate over gold.
Silver basically takes away buff/red/gold colors and leaves those areas white. That's why your hen has silver hackles instead of gold and why your rooster is only black and white. You can compare your hens and see the difference and compare your rooster to Google pics of a CCL. You'll see how much color he is missing.
The salmon (reddish) breasts on all your hens is autosomal red that isn't effected by silver so not important but just so you understand why that red is present on silver birds.
Anyways a hen is either gold or silver and gets that gene from her father so whatever he passes is what she'll be.
Roosters can be two copies of silver, two copies of gold or one of each. Your rooster has two copies of silver so silver is all be can pass to his offspring. So when bred to your hens the silver or the gold all pullet offspring will be silver. Yes when bred to your cream hens the pullets will be silver. That's why be is no use for a cream breeding plan. His pullet offspring will be pure for silver so if you want to work on silvers you can use them without issue.
Now when bred to your silver hen all male offspring will receive a silver gene from the rooster and a silver gene from the silver hen. That means they will be pure for silver like your rooster and can be used in future breeding for silver.
The issue I referred to about breeding him to the cream hens is because the cockerel offspring will get silver from the father but gold from the cream hens.
They will look like silver chicks when hatched and while young since silver is dominate to gold.
When they mature they will get a yellowish look on hackles, back and saddle. That is the one copy of gold showing through the silver. Since they carry one gold gene they can pass gold or silver to their offspring. They will be useless really in your silver breeding because you won't want the gold gene getting bred forward.
So keep only cockerels from the one silver hen but keep all pullets from both color hens and you'll have all pure silvers for your next generation.

Wow. Thanks for all of that info! I happen to like the looks of the silver hen, so I may continue with the silver to see where that leads a few generations from now.
Thanks again!

 

[Below frigid]

I'd like to see pictures of your crested cream legbars. I've always like the breed and recently got a cockerel and three pullets (they are about 4 months old). I'm concerned with the cockerel, as his comb is very curved. I'm thinking it's probably not good for breeding high-quality birds, but fine for backyard purposes.

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What are the crested ones with the straw colored hackle feathers.