The Legbar Thread!

[flyingmonkeypoop]

thanks for the pic, I need it a single barred legbar male to help make my "Dark/Light" legbar Theory. if you get a Double barred male please post them

wouldnt a light brown legbar look just like a light brown leghorn? with no barring and no autosexing?


Edit. can you post more pics of him? from the front

I will work on getting more pics of him soon. A light brown legbar would look crele. Just like with Dutch bantams, there are light brown and cream light brown, it would be like that but with barring. I am sure that if this rooster was pure for barring, he would be lighter colored but I like it. I can also try to get some pics of his sisters too when I get a chance

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I have to say since I started breeding my cream boy Hugger I am having a lot more light boys pop out compared to before with his dad Charlie. I think we are onto something holding onto the lighter baby boys.

 

[KPenley]

I have to say since I started breeding my cream boy Hugger I am having a lot more light boys pop out compared to before with his dad Charlie. I think we are onto something holding onto the lighter baby boys.

WooHoo! Are you noticing lighter girls as well? One of my girls from Candace is clearly darker than London, but she is lighter with silver brown fluff (described as "cold brown" by Michael Pease), where the others have been more of a darker warm brown.

 

[nicalandia]

I will work on getting more pics of him soon. A light brown legbar would look crele. Just like with Dutch bantams, there are light brown and cream light brown, it would be like that but with barring. I am sure that if this rooster was pure for barring, he would be lighter colored but I like it. I can also try to get some pics of his sisters too when I get a chance

the his name would be "Crele" and if he was double barred he would look like Henk's double barred crele male, with cream colored hackles and saddle.

 

[nicalandia]

I have to say since I started breeding my cream boy Hugger I am having a lot more light boys pop out compared to before with his dad Charlie. I think we are onto something holding onto the lighter baby boys.

I know believe this has nothing to do with other e+ alleles or cream or lack of cream...

would love to see pics of your dark males and light males if they are grown up already. or are they just chicks at this moment?

 

[singing hen]

Friday Yet

I did the same thing you are planning last November. Got 6 eggs 5 hatched and I got 4 girls and a boy. Perfect except I live in town sandwiched between a couple of bed and breakfasts. So I gave away a pair and kept 3 hens. They are nice and quiet, and have caused no issues with my neighbors. I would actually rate mine as very quiet. I get one very nice colored blue egg, a pretty blue green mint one, and unfortunately an olive one.

I chose cream legbars because they can be reliably and easily sexed, and I wanted blue eggs. Living in town I had few choices there have been too many roosters in the sexed ameraucanas and Easter egger chicks around here. I want to take this opportunity to beg those of you that are breeding these birds to think of the "end users" and non breeders. Please remember BLUE eggs, auto sexing. So that periodically someone like myself can enjoy hatching a few eggs and having a few hens.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I know believe this has nothing to do with other e+ alleles or cream or lack of cream...

would love to see pics of your dark males and light males if they are grown up already. or are they just chicks at this moment?

All babies at the moment. I kept two lighter boys and am photo progressing them, they are about 8 weeks old now. In the next few weeks I plan to keep a few darker boys and photo progress them as well. I'm not assuming it's related to the Cream gene per se, but maybe to the autosomal red problem? What are you thinking?

 

[AlleysFarm]

The Hen finally started back with her true blue eggs again.. YEA! little muted d/t flash

Here are my CLB.. they are offspring from the original A and B lines from GFF.. I think they are such lovely birds and LOVE that I can tell at birth what they are.. no vent sexing or feather sexing needed..

 

[anniesmom]

I begg of you, Keep track records on both type of males, they could be our ticket to finally understanding whats going on with silver looking males and rich colored males. I have a genetic theory for such difference but I'm not comfortable enought to sait just yet.... but its not due to e+ alleles.

Yes, I plan to keep records. I got a trio each last March of the first three "lines" from GFF. They sent a quad each plus an extra male. They haven't been too hardy in general. I've lost three females and a male - all of different causes at different times. One group was lighter colored than the other two. The lighter rooster died last November. He had hardly any rust color on him but had always been a bit strange. The others seemed to pick on him. Obviously, the hens passed on the lighter color to these two guys. I will be breeding more selectively later this year when I have more to work with.

 

[GaryDean26]

I have to say since I started breeding my cream boy Hugger I am having a lot more light boys pop out compared to before with his dad Charlie. I think we are onto something holding onto the lighter baby boys.

Yep....I have a true cream hen that was paired last year with a really light cockerel, but 100% of their offpsring came out dark. I set three of her egg a week and a half after she was moved to her 2013 pairing and two of those eggs hatches. Both Cockerels. One was dark, but the other was light. I expect that going forward all the cockerels from that pairing will be light. I think the dark chick was sired by the 2012 pairing since the hen hadn't been separated long enough from him to eliminate him as a sire).