The Legbar Thread!

[Junibutt]

I love her!! Beautiful.

Thanks and her name is Charlotte

 

[Frenchcuffs13]

Just wanted to post a cute picture of my 7 week old White Sport pullet

She's gorgeous! I hope you plan to hatch some from her! I'd like to have one.......

 

[Frenchcuffs13]

Finally figured out who is causing my non-crested chicks. I did some hen swapping and such which partially ruled it out but the red ranger and autosexing EE hens were only with my pure rooster and most of their chicks are non-crested. The pure rooster is out of my original pair which kinda sucks. My rose combed rooster only produced 4 non-crested chicks out of about 30. Guess it iw a good thing I hatched some unrelated birds this year to mix in

Good you figured it out! Sorry about that though. Do you ever get mixed color legbars laying blue? Someone out there is breeding legbar x something producing splash laying blue with peacomb. I just can't remember who or what they are calling it.

 

[ChicKat]

I love her!! Beautiful.

X2 she really is pretty!

 

[ChicKat]

Thanks and her name is Charlotte

LOL - I have a Charlotte too - I bet a lot of us are going to have Charlotte Elizabeth Diana's in our flocks

 

[Junibutt]

LOL - I have a Charlotte too - I bet a lot of us are going to have Charlotte Elizabeth Diana's in our flocks

Well here is the story behind the name. When we first thought these chicks were Wheaten EE chicks we named them all after their mother Charlie. So the 3 chicks were named Charlie II, Charlie III and Charlie IV. Now that we know what their sexes are Charlie II is Charles, Charlie III is Charlotte and Charlie IV (female) is yet to be named by the friend who is raising them.

 

[Junibutt]

She's gorgeous! I hope you plan to hatch some from her! I'd like to have one.......

I will have some of her siblings in the incubator if you want them, they are due June 6th.

I do plan on breeding her but am looking for an un-related cockerel of good quality. Hopefully I will find one by the time she matures, otherwise I will have to do a sibling cross.

@ChicKat and for others who might be interested, both parents have small crests, however Charlotte and her siblings (even the cockerel) have larger crests. So I am assuming the parents had one cresting gene each and the offsprings got 2 cresting genes one from each parent. Is it a coincidence that they got recessive whites from each parent which had a 25% chance plus getting a crested gene from both parents with a single crested gene, again a 25% chance and then all 3 siblings have a larger crest. Could there be a correlation? Is it possible that white gene when present, may associate itself with the crested gene? That would increase the probability of getting white and double crested together. Can't wait to see what the new ones will look like in a few weeks.

 

[ChicKat]

I will have some of her siblings in the incubator if you want them, they are due June 6th.

I do plan on breeding her but am looking for an un-related cockerel of good quality. Hopefully I will find one by the time she matures, otherwise I will have to do a sibling cross.

@ChicKat and for others who might be interested, both parents have small crests, however Charlotte and her siblings (even the cockerel) have larger crests. So I am assuming the parents had one cresting gene each and the offsprings got 2 cresting genes one from each parent. Is it a coincidence that they got recessive whites from each parent which had a 25% chance plus getting a crested gene from both parents with a single crested gene, again a 25% chance and then all 3 siblings have a larger crest. Could there be a correlation? Is it possible that white gene when present, may associate itself with the crested gene? That would increase the probability of getting white and double crested together. Can't wait to see what the new ones will look like in a few weeks.

you might be on to something....I don't recall anyone with a recessive white ever having one with no crest....

 

[blackbirds13]

I hatched a crestless

White Sport

 

[ChicKat]

I hatched a crestless
White Sport

Pretty chicken too -- I always think of peace doves.... -- well it was a good theory for awhile anyway.