
That little guy right there.... based upon my years with Cream Legbars is a double barred male. He's IT.
Here's the whole crew
Here's another view of 'Mr. Right'.
So, here we are LPID-B-DF.
Lavender patterned Isabel Duckwing Barred dual factor.
Wow

knock me over with a feather.
There is one chick in the incubator and two eggs, one egg of which may still make it. The one chick was really glued into the shell and couldn't move -- so I pulled off the shell...it had pipped and was stuck so couldn't zip and was calling for help. When I know that the chick is glued in -- I think that is incubator/operator malfunction and not necessarily a sign of a chick that was too weak to hatch. But the poor chick was completely glued -- as some of the above chicks are that I probably popped into the brooder last night. Because of that, I think that their down doesn't fluff, and they die of chilling. So the baby glued IN, I put in a bath of hot water and tried to dry off as best I could with paper towels. then thought that the incubator may be a better place to be hoping it doesn't get chilled.
Temps last night were 28-degrees....so the air itself is quite dry and cool.
Although I'd said 20 went to lockdown, it was 24. With the bowl of hot water there to wash the glue-baby, I float tested the remaining eggs. One sank to the bottom, two showed no movement and two moved, one sort of. One of those two was the same one that looked some days behind the others when I candled for lock down. My thinking is that the incubator I have doesn't heat evenly and these two that weren't as far along had been in a cool pocket. When chicks hatch these eggs were getting knocked to the edge of the incubator up against the walls, as the new hatchlings paraded around.
You can see another chick in the batch with a white head spot -- but I think
that chick, although male, and although barred may carry two cream genes -- I hadn't factored THAT into the equation when I was projecting that 25% of the hatchlings should statistically be my goal for the males.....LPID-B DF
Here is what the chicken calculator says that these chicks should grow into regarding phenotype:
So you see:
- half the pullets should be barred, half should be regular isabel without barring.
- All the cockerels should have at least 1-barring gene and
- half the cockerels should have two barring genes.
But, if the parents each had a recessive cream gene....then they could have produced a chick with two cream genes - and as a result very diluted reds. Not the aim for this project at all. The goal is the more distinct and saturated definite Isabel coloration along with the barring.
So to get a chick with zero cream genes..... I think would be 1/3 of the 25% -- some may have two cream genes, some may have one and some will have none.
If I'm ultra lucky, this guy will have zero cream genes and can grow to show the plumage of LPID-B dual factor.