The Legbar Thread!

[enola]

Question...

I purchased some Cream Legbar eggs...one male hatched with appropriate color.  Another male hatched that appears to be a black sex-link.  All eggs that I received were blue.

Is it possible to get a black sex-link chick from a CL??   The seller referred to it as a "throw back"....

Ask the breeder if she has any breeds of roosters that are red. A sex link is very possible from a Legbar hen.

 

[TammyTX]

Ask the breeder if she has any breeds of roosters that are red. A sex link is very possible from a Legbar hen.

They claim it is a "Cream Legbar Only" pen...

Here is a photo I just took of him:


This is his only other hatch mate:

 

[enola]

I am not an expert, but, my guess would be that chick is not purebred.

 

[normanack]

Question...

I purchased some Cream Legbar eggs...one male hatched with appropriate color.  Another male hatched that appears to be a black sex-link.  All eggs that I received were blue.

Is it possible to get a black sex-link chick from a CL??   The seller referred to it as a "throw back"....

If the hen had been in contact with another rooster before she was in the Cream Legbar pen -- even as much as a month before -- that could be it.

 

[enola]

They claim it is a "Cream Legbar Only" pen... Here is a photo I just took of him: This is his only other hatch mate:

Did the other chick have chipmunk stripes and eye liner?

 

[enola]

Did you take pictures when they were a couple of days old?

 

[lonnyandrinda]

They claim it is a "Cream Legbar Only" pen...

Here is a photo I just took of him:

I NEVER get this in my Cream Legbar pen- but it looks EXACTLY like the sexlinks I make on purpose, a Black Copper Marans roo over Cream Legbar hen. Sometimes they have feathered legs sometimes not as my BCM roo is not very well feathered on his legs. Another indicator- do you see the tint of his legs? Pure Cream Legbar chicks always have yellow or willow (green) legs, never that dark tint. Somebody went visiting another pen and the breeder is in denial.... or she mixed up the eggs accidentally.

 

[ChicKat]

I NEVER get this in my Cream Legbar pen- but it looks EXACTLY like the sexlinks I make on purpose, a Black Copper Marans roo over Cream Legbar hen. Sometimes they have feathered legs sometimes not as my BCM roo is not very well feathered on his legs. Another indicator- do you see the tint of his legs? Pure Cream Legbar chicks always have yellow or willow (green) legs, never that dark tint. Somebody went visiting another pen and the breeder is in denial.... or she mixed up the eggs accidentally.

Really good on-target info. Has to be.

Regarding CLs with willow legs as chicks--- have people noticed these chicks (has anyone tracked?) to grow up with more melanizers? It think GaryDean26 mentioned somewhere that the willow legs are a sign of black pigment. The lighter-brighter the yellow - probably the clearer the colors...better salmon - for example and not a dusky salmon. What do y'all think?

 

[dretd]

Regarding CLs with willow legs as chicks--- have people noticed these chicks (has anyone tracked?) to grow up with more melanizers? It think GaryDean26 mentioned somewhere that the willow legs are a sign of black pigment. The lighter-brighter the yellow - probably the clearer the colors...better salmon - for example and not a dusky salmon. What do y'all think?

I will let you know in about 4-6 months. 100% of my chicks so far have what I would consider Willow, or at least Yellow-y Willow (not as Willow as EEs). That's 14 chicks from my first 2 hatches. There are 7 girls. I have 2 gold hens that have a little black tipping on some of their breast but a lighter taupe/gray body and one hen that is a much darker body but no black in her salmon breast. I have always thought of the darker hen as having more melanizers becasue of her darker ground color. I suspect there is more than one melanizing gene involved.

I have some Welcummers growing out which are somewhat similar to CLs (minus the barring and Cream of course) and they all have Ronald MacDonald Yellow legs and there are 2/5 girls with the same black tipping on some of their chestnut breast feathers that is identical to my CL girls. 2/7 of the Cockerels have black breasts and 5/7 have the correct black with red mottled breast so I suspect that the melanizers in this case are specific to the breast, cause more black in the breast of both boys and girls, and are unrelated to the leg color in this breed. Not sure if it the same in Cream Legbars or not.

 

[TammyTX]

These are photos of the chicks at just a few days old; they only hatched this past weekend. There were no females so no chipmunks.

Thank you all for the confirmation that the black chick is NOT a CL or a "throwback".

I believe he is a sex-link, too. I don't own a barred hen so I KNOW he didn't come from my girls. I left neutral feedback when I received the eggs because the "extra" egg, which arrived broken, when opened was not fertile--plus the eggs were very dirty.

Well, $40 and two roos...lesson learned on Ebay eggs!

....what else can I do??