Help please!

[Snugglesandwigglespetcare]

Is this correct for a Cream Legbar rooster and a Welsummer Hen?

They would both be black with gold hackle feathers and birchen barring??

 

[GaryDean26]

Your Legbar sire has sex-linked barring (only the males pass it to offspring), the wildtype base color pattern (recessive to Birchen Crowning), and Cream Hackles (recessive). It look like you have him set up wrong in the gene calculator. Look for the [ig] gene for cream plumage and that will correct him.

Your Welsummer hen is also a wild type base color pattern unless you have a non-standard color varriety. It looks like you have the wrong selection for the hen. You have selected a Laced Partridge Bird. I believe the hen you selected would be the color of a gold laced Wyandott. Your Welsummer should be the same base as your Legbar. Your Welsummer will not have the [ig] (inhibitor of gold) Cream gene so all the offspring will lack cream plumage. I am pretty sure the Welsummers have a red gene (mohogany? Autosomal red? Other?) that the Legbar doesn't have and I am pretty sure it is dominant or at least semi-dominant, so your cockerels from the parring will come out with the Wild Type primary color parent from both parents, and will have a single dosage of the barring gene from the father which will make them much darker than their sire who is double bars (instead of black and white barring it will be black and dark grey barring). They will NOT have any cream plumage. They will probably have some red tones from the Welsummer Dame.

The Pullert will have the wild type Primary color pattern from both parents. She will get the sex-linked barring from the sire and since it is sex-linked the female chromosome doesn't carry the barring gene so she will have the full dose of barring that a hen can have. She will not be cream (gold hackles, not cream) and will likly have red hues in with the gold from the Welsummer.