I crossed a cream legbar with a ----- and this is what I got

[junebuggena]

So I could use any kind, it just wouldn't be as easy to determine the sex at hatch, right? How long after hatch should I be able to tell?

Again, depends on what variety you use.

 

[MDliving]

Also, if I use the CCL as a rooster, and a hen with a silver gene (ex. Rhode Island White), I should get Red Sex-links, correct?

 

[junebuggena]

Also, if I use the CCL as a rooster, and a hen with a silver gene (ex. Rhode Island White), I should get Red Sex-links, correct?

Only if the hens are silver. Some lines of Rhode Island White are dominant white with no sexlinked silver at all.

 

[MDliving]

Only if the hens are silver. Some lines of Rhode Island White are dominant white with no sexlinked silver at all.

Thanks for your information!

 

[Rancher 51]

I'm thinking about crossing a cream legbar roo with silver leghorn hens. Does anyone know what color birds this will make or if they will lay blue eggs?

 

[junebuggena]

I'm thinking about crossing a cream legbar roo with silver leghorn hens. Does anyone know what color birds this will make or if they will lay blue eggs?

Offspring should lay blue eggs. The chicks will be red sexlinks, but you may have to wait till they start to feather in to see which chicks are gold base color (female) and which are silver base color (male).
Females will look very similar to Legbar hens as adults. Males will look like Silver Leghorns as adults, but with the barring gene applying white striping and may have some red leakage.

 

[Rancher 51]

Thank you. What if I use red leghorn hens?

 

[junebuggena]

Thank you. What if I use red leghorn hens?

You'll get birds that look similar to RhodeBars.

 

[Rancher 51]

You'll get birds that look similar to RhodeBars. 

I will try that then. I would like to get either crele colored birds or something that looks like a rhodebar. Would buff colored hens produce crele?

 

[junebuggena]

I will try that then. I would like to get either crele colored birds or something that looks like a rhodebar. Would buff colored hens produce crele?

Buff will have a similar effect as the Red. For Crele, you need Black Breasted Red and barring. A cream Legbar is Black Breasted Red with barring and the cream dilute. The cream dilute gene is recessive, so none of the chicks will express, but should carry a copy. The reason you won't get crele from the first generation is because the Reds have the columbian restrictor. That's a dominant gene and only requires a single copy to produce a near solid red bird.
This is, of course, assuming your Legbar is the real deal and not an imitation.