Is this a cream legbar?!

[BoundlessLove]

Food coloring works, also.

 

[kattabelly]

Food coloring works, also.

But don't put it straight back in the cake decorating kit after it's been up someone's vent

And maybe don't use red colouring - I can imagine panicking for a bit before remembering you'd done that, if there was a lot of red!

 

[Lauren86]

She has the coloring, but I do not see a crest.

Is that an accepted colouring for cream legbar? I mean i have 4 and i'm only learning. CCLB can come without a crest i believe if two small crested heterezygous birds for crest are bred together resulting in a 25% yeild of no crest. This girls colouring looks very different to my 4. But i do have a crossbred olive egger with colouring ver similar to her.

 

[Altairsky]

I wouldn't call cream legbar a bird with no crest that lays white eggs.

 

[NatJ]

CLs can lay blue, green, or cream colored eggs.
I have one that is hatchery quality and she lays a cream egg.

Yes and no.

Cream Legbars that meet the breed standard do not lay cream eggs, because that is not the color the breed is supposed to lay. It would be just as wrong as Marans laying white or blue eggs (supposed to lay dark brown) or a Leghorn laying dark brown eggs (supposed to lay white.) Certain breeds are supposed to lay certain colors of eggs.

However, hatcheries do sometimes sell birds that are not quite correct for the breed. A Cream Legbar that lays cream eggs would be an example of that. A Crested Cream Legbar with no crest, or any chicken with the wrong leg color for the breed, would be other examples of hatchery-quality chickens that have traits that are wrong for the breed they supposedly belong to.

 

[Mother of Chaos]

I have to say that she looks a lot like my Easter Egger, except for the comb. Mine lays blue-green, but EEs can also lay other colors.

 

[BoundlessLove]

Yes and no.

Cream Legbars that meet the breed standard do not lay cream eggs, because that is not the color the breed is supposed to lay. It would be just as wrong as Marans laying white or blue eggs (supposed to lay dark brown) or a Leghorn laying dark brown eggs (supposed to lay white.) Certain breeds are supposed to lay certain colors of eggs.

However, hatcheries do sometimes sell birds that are not quite correct for the breed. A Cream Legbar that lays cream eggs would be an example of that. A Crested Cream Legbar with no crest, or any chicken with the wrong leg color for the breed, would be other examples of hatchery-quality chickens that have traits that are wrong for the breed they supposedly belong to.

I’ll have to take a picture of my CL, Cindy, and post it. She has a crest and correct leg coloring.
Also, she lays a cream colored egg.

 

[NatJ]

I’ll have to take a picture of my CL, Cindy, and post it. She has a crest and correct leg coloring.
Also, she lays a cream colored egg.

If the egg color is wrong, then she is missing one important trait for the breed. It does not matter how correct she is otherwise, she is still not a good example of the breed.

Which is why I said both yes and no to whether a Cream Legbar can lay cream-colored eggs. A bird that looks right and is sold as a Cream Legbar might lay that color of eggs, but she has a trait (egg color) that the breed is not supposed to have.

 

[BoundlessLove]

If the egg color is wrong, then she is missing one important trait for the breed. It does not matter how correct she is otherwise, she is still not a good example of the breed.

Which is why I said both yes and no to whether a Cream Legbar can lay cream-colored eggs. A bird that looks right and is sold as a Cream Legbar might lay that color of eggs, but she has a trait (egg color) that the breed is not supposed to have.

Albeit, she is a CL and does lay a cream colored egg.
I’m definitely not saying she is a good example only that her egg is cream in color.

 

[LikeTurkeys]

Albeit, she is a CL and does lay a cream colored egg.
I’m definitely not saying she is a good example only that her egg is cream in color.

I've had CL like that, and it's very unfortunate. The breeder I got them from had very nice birds and never ran into cream eggs, but it was apparent that somewhere up the line some of the birds were heterozygous. When I went to breed mine, I got pullets that laid cream eggs!

But like @NatJ said, it's not a trait of the breed. So saying that CL lay blue, green AND cream is a bit of a misnomer.

I think it's a problem in a few lines, to the extent that Greenfire farms DNA tested their Exhibition line and kept only birds homozygous for blue egg.