The Legbar Thread!

[Sphinx]

I just posted my first ever White Legbar auction.

With your white legbar project, how have you been breeding them? Only white to white? Or do you mix a white with a regular? If the latter, how many come out looking white?

I'm curious because I have a white cockerel and a traditional, crested pullet and I'm curious what combinations I could get. It'll be a while- the pullet is just starting to have her voice change from chirp to cluck.

 

[ChicKat]

Wanted to post my project on here.
I recently picked up 4 maybe 5 1/2 Cream Legbar x Crele Penedesenca and welsummer crosses.
1 appears to be a rooster and the other 4 hens ( 1 looks like a pure welsummer which she thought she had put a chick in with the mixes)
I am excited to see how these come out and if these crosses can be auto sexed. all 3 of these breeds are auto sexable.
I plan on breeding the females back to my male Crele Penedesenca. I am hoping to work on a auto sexable olive egger.
Just wondering what you all think?

Hi Cooper12,
is the bird in your avatar with the crest one of your 1/2 legbar chickens? The crest and the face reminiscent of a Cream Legbar to me. ?? :O)

 

[Hangtown Farms]

No he is Curly my Icelandic rooster...
all my icelandic's are crested...
My Penedesenca and my 1/2 Legbar 1/2 penedesenca and or welsummer's are just chicks still.
I will try and get some pictures up soon.

 

[ChicKat]

No he is Curly my Icelandic rooster...
all my icelandic's are crested...
My Penedesenca and my 1/2 Legbar 1/2 penedesenca and or welsummer's are just chicks still.
I will try and get some pictures up soon.

Thanks for the reply--- Curly is a beautiful color.

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Thank you here is my recent run of chicks..
I have 3 icelandics (2 light colored ones 1 brownish)
4 crele penedesenca (largest ones in here greyer one is the male other 3 are hens)

4 legbar crosses ... maybe 5 but I am pretty sure the other is a welsummer...

 

[GaryDean26]

Hi chooksandeggs-Aus,

That is so fascinating!! will the resulting sliver (Silver Legbars will be the correct name?) lay white eggs from the Leghorns?

Egg Color 101.
Blue X Blue = Blue
Blue X White = Blue
Blue X Light Brown = Green
Blue X Dark Brown = Olive

White X White = White
White X Brown = Light Brown
White X Dark Brown = Brown

Since the Silver colored Cream Legbar had parents on both side with the blue egg gene it is a Blue X Blue and it will lay Blue eggs.

I think the confussion is that the Silver Legbar breed Standards call for white egg and non-crested birds. The silver color however is NOT linked to egg color in any way. The Silver and Gold varieties should probablly be treated as a different breed since they were created without the use of the blue egg laying hens form Chile.

I would propose that what we real have is the following:

Breed 1 - The Legbar (White eggs & Non Crested)
1) Gold Variety - Standard of Perfection
2) Silver Variety - Standard of Perfection

Breed 2 - The Cream Legbar (Blue Eggs & Crested)
1) Cream Variety - Standard of Perfection
2) Gold Variety - Non-standard
3) Silver Variety - Non-standard
4) White Variety - Non-standard

I would suggest that the non-standard Cream Legbars keep the word "Crested" in the name to destinguish them from the white egg laying and non-crested variety (i.e. "Crested Silver Legbar" for the non-standard Cream Legbar, and "Silver Legbar" for the white egg variety per the UK standards).

The Gold Legbar breed was standardized with the Poultry Club of Great Britain in 1945.
The Silver Legbar breed was standardized with the Poultry Club of Great Britain in 1951.
The Cream Legbar breed (origianly know as the Crested Cream Legbar) was standardized with the Poultry Club of Great Britain in 1958.

 

[RyeRanch]

Some Silvers will occur naturally in a Gold or Cream Legbar breeding program or can be specifically bred substituting Silver Duckwing Leghorns for the Brown Leghorns in the breeding process.
My latest batch of Gold Legbar chicks have a Silver male and a Silver female amongst them. I hope to breed these together to start a new line of Silvers.

Do you have photos of the silvers that you can post? That sounds so interesting.

 

[GaryDean26]

Is this a Crested Silver Legbar?

A breeder in the UK posted this on-line. I can remeber what she called this. I think she said something to the effect that her cream legbar line had the gene for the white or smokey coloring??? I found this several weeks ago when I was trying to figure out the genetics of the Ressesive White Cream Legbars that were discoved in the Greenfire Bloodlines. It was titled as a "White".

[6/8/12 correction: I found the source of this photo again, and the breed said that this line has the "silver and albino" genes in it]

 

[cjwaldon]

Wow that is a beautiful rooster!

 

[ChicKat]

X2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!