Possibilities?

[Athiena14]

Curious on your thought on this guys. I have a cream legbar hen who just started laying eggs. Out of curiously I put one in my incubator. I hadnt seen anyone breeding with her yet. Its growing.

The male I see breeding everyone is an ee mixed with a buff orpington. The other option is another roo, that I'm not sure what hes mixed with.

What possibilites could I get for egg color with the ee mix? His sister is currently laying pinkish eggs but has the green legs like an ee but he has light blue legs.

 

[Athiena14]

Yep thought I put a random pic in there guys sorry

 

[The Moonshiner]

A lot of unknowns on the rooster side but I'd say its a safe bet to say if it hatches and ends up a pullet she'll lay green eggs.

 

[Athiena14]

A lot of unknowns on the rooster side but I'd say its a safe bet to say if it hatches and ends up a pullet she'll lay green eggs.

Yea I recently got the unsure male from a garage sale along with the two hens in the pics. He was supposed to replace the ee mix since his mother and sister are in the flock. The ee mix has become the dominant one though even though he is only 6 months

 

[nicalandia]

Wow, this Pullet has perfectly black shanks and good barring, you know how hard that combo is to get right? The Ameraucana breeders trying to breed Barred birds with Slate shanks have been trying for so many years without much results, yet this random pullet has all of the right genetic making for it.

The sex linked Barring gene and the sex linked dermal inhibitor(inhibits shank pigment) Id gene are linked so close that it's nearly impossible to get B/-, id+/- recombinants, something like 1% chance.


Can I request more pics of her? Just to make sure is not mud or dirt making her shanks look that way.

 

[Athiena14]

Wow, this Pullet has perfectly black shanks and good barring, you know how hard that combo is to get right? The Ameraucana breeders trying to breed Barred birds with Slate shanks have been trying for so many years without much results, yet this random pullet has all of the right genetic making for it.

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The sex linked Barring gene and the sex linked dermal inhibitor(inhibits shank pigment) Id gene are linked so close that it's nearly impossible to get B/-, id+/- recombinants, something like 1% chance.


Can I request more pics of her? Just to make sure is not mud or dirt making her shanks look that way.

I got her from a yard sale lol. I'll get pics tomorrow any Pacific spots of her or just the leg?

 

[Athiena14]

I think she was just in the perfect shading. Not as black as in the first pic

 

[nicalandia]

Thanks for posting the pics, that confirms its just epidermis melanin and not dermal melanin expression..!

 

[Athiena14]

Thanks for posting the pics, that confirms its just epidermis melanin and not dermal melanin expression..!

You spoke a different language there lol

 

[Amer]

Thanks for posting the pics, that confirms its just epidermis melanin and not dermal melanin expression..!

I was getting a bet excited there too! *sighhh

I'm thinking that the chicks (if any pullets even hatch) will lay green eggs.