The Legbar Thread!

[chicken pickin]

You will have to find a hen that lays white eggs. If her pullet lays a green egg then my guess is he has a brown gene from somewhere.....

I was also thinking a white egg layer would be helpful in this. I will have to look around for something. If he only carries one copy of the blue what other color would he likely be carrying, white?


If he came from an egg from chickens that were from gff does that mean others may have this problem also? I just figured when I got into Cream Legbars a year ago that it would be a definite blue kind of deal, that he would carry the blue gene and the hens would carry the blue gene, but It never even crossed my thoughts that they could be only carrying one blue gene.

Now to somehow figure in some space to raise up multiple pullets to point of lay.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I was also thinking a white egg layer would be helpful in this. I will have to look around for something. If he only carries one copy of the blue what other color would he likely be carrying, white?


If he came from an egg from chickens that were from gff does that mean others may have this problem also? I just figured when I got into Cream Legbars a year ago that it would be a definite blue kind of deal, that he would carry the blue gene and the hens would carry the blue gene, but It never even crossed my thoughts that they could be only carrying one blue gene.

Now to somehow figure in some space to raise up multiple pullets to point of lay.

Yes a white layer is your best bet. All eggs have a base white. Blue eggs have blue pigment in the shell, brown eggs have brown pigment ON the shell, and green layers have both. Brown genes are much more complicated and numerous than blue genes, I believe there are at least 12-15 different brown egg genes that have been discovered so far versus the plain simple dominance of the blue egg gene. That's how Marans eggs get so dark, you are breeding to "stack up" different brown genes to get as many as you can in a single bird.

Cross your boy with a white egg layer. I would say raise at least 5-10 pullets if you can. If any of the offspring lay white, he definitely only has one blue egg gene. If any of the offspring lay brown or green, then he also has some brown egg genes in him. If they all lay blue it must have been a fluke but I would be really surprised if that's the result.

 

[KPenley]

It may be a small chance, but wait until you get a few more eggs to make sure there's a problem...sometimes my girls first eggs are green and they turn blue as they use up the brown pigment first. Perhaps this girl is just using up her extra brown pigment and future eggs will arrive more olive. Best wishes!

 

[jerryse]

It may be a small chance, but wait until you get a few more eggs to make sure there's a problem...sometimes my girls first eggs are green and they turn blue as they use up the brown pigment first. Perhaps this girl is just using up her extra brown pigment and future eggs will arrive more olive. Best wishes!

I had a wheaten ameraucana pullet last year start out laying white eggs then turn blue. She laid about 3 white eggs. So maybe her color has not started to produce yet.

 

[racinchickins]

I had a wheaten ameraucana pullet last year start out laying white eggs then turn blue. She laid about 3 white eggs. So maybe her color has not started to produce yet.

Definitely keep us informed on how it goes with her eggs. I didn't separate any of my CL pullets from the flock till I saw blue eggs. So I don't know if they started out white first or not. Very interesting.

 

[chicken pickin]

Thanks everyone. I will let you all know how her eggs look after she has laid a few more. Im just really hoping I don't have this huge set back.

 

[CibolaChooks]

Thanks everyone. I will let you all know how her eggs look after she has laid a few more. Im just really hoping I don't have this huge set back.

we can still swap eggs this spring and i can throw some extra cl male eggs in.

 

[chicken pickin]

we can still swap eggs this spring and i can throw some extra cl male eggs in.

 

[tdhenson86]

I have some Legbar eggs in the incubator! I'm excited to see what hatches!

 

[KPenley]

WooHoo! Best wishes on your hatch!