Rose Comb Legbar Thread

[madamwlf]

Oh wow, nice. Now those I would love to have. I'm not a fan of those large combs especially since the crest seems to screw them up.

 

[holm25]

they are nice looking birds i think im going to have to get some of them and what color eggs

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Most of the pullets from last year lay a really light blue egg but I have one who is laying a huge robins-egg blue colored egg. The picture below is comparing a muscovy egg, a rose comb legbar egg, and a salmon faverolle egg

 

[holm25]

also how many eggs a week do you think they lay

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

If they are under lights, they lay every day. Right now out of the 6 hens in that pen, I get 5-6 eggs a day

 

[Jayzandra]

Do you sell/ship hatching eggs? I so very badly want some of these!

 

[nicalandia]

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your first plan(ameraucana x barred rock/Leghorn) would have not worked as plan as the Blue egg shell on the Ameraucana is linked to its Pea comb, making any Rosecombed looking legbar a white egg shell layer instead, and only the Walnutt combed birds would have laid blue eggs... this is less tricky with your current project, but still tricky none the less... the Rosecomb Leghonr comb genotype is R/R p+/p+ and o+/o+ the Cream Legbar comb genotype is r+/r+ p+/p+ and O/O now the O gene is linked to the p+ gene by 4 MapUnits, this means that wherever the p+ gene goes there is 96% chance the O gene is going to be there too.. now a cross of such genomes would produce the following genome, R/r+ p+/p+ and O/o+ this bird would have laid light blue eggs, now what did you do after the F1? did you cross it back to Cream Legbars? or back to Rosecomb Leghorns?.. why are still getting Inconsistence blue egg color shade? well thats because of the O-p+ linkage, seems like most of your birds are still heterozygotes for the O/o+ gene, But it seems like you do have a keeper on one of your pullets, she seems to be O/O and therefore p+/p+ having two copies of the Cream Legbar single comb gene, while also having the RoseComb gene, I would take this female(and cull the other pale blue egg shell birds) and mate her back to Cream legbar and go from there

 

[nicalandia]

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That Hen is your Keeper, for homozygous O/O Bird, most of your other pullets while being p+/p+ are only Heterozygous for the blue eggs because of the O-p+ linkage

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

The plan to make them originally would have kept the peacomb because it would have been easier to deal with. Egg color is a small issue, at least they aren't green!
I was busy at work so didn't grab eggs for a couple days. I took a pic of them to show color. There is one pure hen with him and the rest are project hens and this is only 2 days worth.

 

[nicalandia]

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Wow so nice... So, how many backcross to pure CL did you do? or you have been doing F1s x F1s? or back to rosecomb? I think small peacomb would de better in winter than Rosecomb, somehow I think they(the comb) are larger, but I could be wrong