i think im onto a winnner [New Pics added - 20.08.2012]

[ChickNmamma]

Those are neat looking birds. So the second generation cross out of the dominant white gave you leakage of black feathers here and there? I would also guess crossing them back into Leghorn will bring back the completely white bird. I like their look!

 

[Habibs Hens]

Those are neat looking birds. So the second generation cross out of the dominant white gave you leakage of black feathers here and there? I would also guess crossing them back into Leghorn will bring back the completely white bird. I like their look!

I suspect that the leakage is coming from the girls not the legbar male

as I have the same mums (hens) crossed with Lavender Araucana and out of 12 eggs all the chicks are white with leakage of black and that could only be the hens as LAVs have no black

what im gonna do is get rid of the leghorns and get new ones from a different breeder

then cross those leghorns with a MALE white Legbar

hopefully that will help clean them up

 

[ChickNmamma]

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Um.. One copy of the Lav gene gives you black. So your Lavender Auracanas (which carry TWO copies of Lav) are black if crossed to anything except another Lavender Auracana... We do it over here with the Ameraucanas and breed them to black on purpose to get what is called a "split". It carries only one copy of Lav - so it looks black. Lavender is recessive - it hides unless there are two copies.

If you cross Dominant White (leghorns) with Recessive White (Legbar 2copies)( I believe.. not sure on this, does anybody know if the white Legbar carry dominant white or recessive white?) you might get the exact same effect - white chicks with black leakage carrying one copy of recessive white. However - if you cross them back to the father then you would get the two copies of recessive white back and the chicks would be all white again. So it would work - with the hens you have - and a white male Legbar.

 

[Habibs Hens]

Ah yes the Punnet square

I'm gonna remate them should clean them up

But to be honest unlike my mutts they look like Dalmatians hehe

Got some pics going up in a bit on the EE Braggers thread



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[GaryDean26]

There is good infromation HERE posted by kirstyfern on how she bred her "Saphires" (CLB x WLH). It has good insite on what to expect in egg size, egg production, egg color, and how she developed her line etc.