Crossing Brown Leghorn hen to Cream Crested Legbar Roo

[twach]

What will my outcome be?
Any sexlinking?
Does this cross have a name that’s been used before?

Thanks!

 

[Chicken_tiger_catt]

@The Moonshiner
Moony, you do Leghorn breeding, right? any ideas on this?

 

[The Moonshiner]

No name that I know of.
No sexlink. Brown leghorn rooster over CCL hens would though.
They'd look close to a legbar. All pullets should lay blue eggs. Crests are supposed to be dominant but I've seen the cross produce birds that have had small or no noticeable crests also.
CCL has or should have the cream gene which is also supposed to be dominate. It just lightens up or mutes the gold tones some.
All will be barred but the males will only have one barring gene instead of two like a pure CCL so the white bars will be thinner which will make them appear a little darker.
I think that about covers it all.

 

[Amer]

No name that I know of.
No sexlink. Brown leghorn rooster over CCL hens would though.
They'd look close to a legbar. All pullets should lay blue eggs. Crests are supposed to be dominant but I've seen the cross produce birds that have had small or no noticeable crests also.
CCL has or should have the cream gene which is also supposed to be dominate. It just lightens up or mutes the gold tones some.
All will be barred but the males will only have one barring gene instead of two like a pure CCL so the white bars will be thinner which will make them appear a little darker.
I think that about covers it all.

The cream gene (ig) is actually recessive, so the result should be gold duckwing with barring, same as a golden crele legbar.

 

[McChooky]

I had 4 legbar and brown leghorn crosses hatch this weekend. Another chick hatched from a brown egg.One of the following: Sapphire Gem,Welsummer or blk Australorp

 

[NagemTX]

@KF0002 Thought you might want a crack at this as that's just what you're doing now!

 

[McChooky]

White egg layer crossed with a legbar roo vs a brown egg layer crossed from the same roo.I can't tell them apart without studying them in a good light

 

[KF0002]

I mated a Legbar rooster to a Brown Leghorn hen for a Crele Leghorn project. The first generation are all single barred, both male and female with one copy of the crest gene. No sex links are created when crossed this way. The F1 crosses also have one white egg gene and one blue egg gene, meaning the pullets will lay a pale blue egg. This is an F1 cockerel. The pullets look like Legbars but are leaner and longer legged like a Leghorn. I will try to get a pic of an F1 pullet this evening. Sex links are created when mating a barred female to a non-barred male. That creates single barred males and non-barred females. Hope this helps.

 

[KF0002]

And here is an F1 Legbar/Brown Leghorn pullet.

Since the Legbar male was over the Brown Leghorn female, this cross does not produce sex-linked offspring.

 

[KF0002]

The chicks from this cross all look the same at hatch since all are single barred on a wild type base. They all appeared chipmunk striped at hatch because it was not a sex-linked cross. Breeding a single barred female to a black based or birchen rooster produces the best sex-links that are easier to tell apart at hatch. The males would be black with a white spot on their head, and the females would be solid black with no headspot.