Is this a cream legbar?!

[BoundlessLove]

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.

Not a misnomer - You missed my quote “CAN lay”.
Like I stated in my original post.
Cindy is a hatchery/pet quality CL.

 

[NatJ]

Not a misnomer - You missed my quote “CAN lay”.
Like I stated in my original post.
Cindy is a hatchery/pet quality CL.

The problem is that the statement "can lay" is easy to take in two different ways.

If I say that Silkies "can" have beards or no beards, I mean that the standard permits either option. This is a pretty common way of talking about what variations are permitted in various breed standards.

So when you say that they "can lay" that color of eggs, many people take you as talking about an egg color that is acceptable for that breed.

Yes it is true that a chicken who is marketed as a Cream Legbar, and looks correct for the breed, may lay cream-colored eggs. In that sense, it is correct that a Cream Legbar "can lay" that color.

But egg color is considered very important for the Cream Legbar breed (and any other breed that lays an uncommon color of egg.) If someone makes a post trying to identify a hen of unknown breed, and they find that she lays cream-colored eggs, pretty much everyone will pronounce that she is NOT a Cream Legbar, because of what egg color the breed is supposed to lay.

So it's really coming down to how people are reading what you say, even if they do not have a problem with what you actually meant. (I assume the only solution is to explain more clearly each time you make your statement, so people realize you are not talking about what is permitted in the official descriptions of the breed, but only about what actually happens sometimes.)

 

[BoundlessLove]

Yes it is true that a chicken who is marketed as a Cream Legbar, and looks correct for the breed, may lay cream-colored eggs. In that sense, it is correct that a Cream Legbar "can lay" that color.

Absolutely correct

 

[BoundlessLove]

The problem is that the statement "can lay" is easy to take in two different ways.

Note my original response: “Hatchery quality”
This is clearly not a show quality line.
No official description of the breed would need to be given as I meant exactly what I said.
And as you say, it does happen.