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Hi Kiki!
You have a good eye -- because Wesummers are he same 'wild type' plumage as brown leghorns, from what I know. Technically she is a brown leghorn I'm pretty sure (well her mama hen was a Legbar and she lays blue eggs. Because of the way the Barring gene is passed along, she has no barring gene, but she does have 1 recessive lavender. (one recessive cream too -- which is something I will need to breed out of the flock to get nice colors in my project). Her tail is out of the picture but it is the requisite black.
She is in with a split roo.
-- Just now, one of my Cream Legbars seems to be broody -- I will give her a day -- and then set or two to be sure- and then put some of this chickens eggs under her to hatch as a test hatch. This is another place the chicken calculator comes in handy --
There is a 1/16 chance that I could get a female that is 'Lavender Patterned Isabel Duckwing Barred' (LPIDB) from now on to save keystrokes and a 1/16 chance to get a male with 1 barring gene that is LPIDB. There is a 1/16 chance to get a plain Isabel male and 1/16 chance to get a plain Isabel female. This would be the hens first time to be broody -- and I have 4 of this little pullet's blue eggs on the counter. It would be the first blue-egg hatch in my project if successful.
