The Legbar Thread!

[madamwlf]

Okay for all the genetic persons out there, let's see if I got this straight before I list any eggs or chicks for sale.

With the eggs there is a 25% chance of hatching a yellow chick, 50% chance the chicks that hatch will be carriers and 25% chance of not being a carrier.

With the chicks, there is basically a 50/50 chance of being carriers since I'm keeping the yellow chicks that hatch.

Is this right?

 

[madamwlf]

Sure looks like a white Legbar to me.

Ok, here's Jones, my white cream legbar.

 

[madamwlf]

Just remember, what you have a siblings. It's best to take the male and breed him to some of your Legbar hens then take the hens from that breeding and breed back to their father.

Think I might have really lucked out on a white pair. A little harder to tell, but one yellow has a stripe and is a bit darker throughout the body, making her stripe visible all the way down. The other one is only dark on the top of the face and is bright yellow and lighter throughout.

Thank you so much Madamwlf.

 

[Sphinx]

Sure looks like a white Legbar to me.

Oh, he absolutely is. That was never a question in my mind. In fact, when I talked to the friend who gave him to me, it turns out this little guy is one of your babies! She'd bought hatching eggs from you, and he's one of the offspring. I guess two hatched out this way, but the other ended up dying.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

Just remember, what you have a siblings. It's best to take the male and breed him to some of your Legbar hens then take the hens from that breeding and breed back to their father.

Yup, will do.

 

[ChicKat]

Jones is a real sweetie. Thanks for the cool pictures.

 

[anniesmom]

Okay for all the genetic persons out there, let's see if I got this straight before I list any eggs or chicks for sale.

With the eggs there is a 25% chance of hatching a yellow chick, 50% chance the chicks that hatch will be carriers and 25% chance of not being a carrier.

With the chicks, there is basically a 50/50 chance of being carriers since I'm keeping the yellow chicks that hatch.

Is this right?

I'll give it a shot. It's been a long time since I took biology! Here's my theory.

If I remember correctly, you have one male and 2 females, right? If this is a recessive gene your male has to carry it as well as at least one of the females. They are likely at least half siblings and Green Fire likely has only one Legbar passing the gene since they have not gotten any white chicks. You got at least two of that bird's offspring with it. It's likely that other people have gotten similar chicks from GF. They just don't know it yet! Do you know for sure that you are getting white chicks from both your hens?

Your carrier rooster bred to a carrier hen would statistically produce what you said above (25% white, 50% carriers and 25% non carrier). If you keep 25% of the chicks, two thirds of the remaining chicks will be carriers (50 out of 75).

Your carrier rooster bred to a non carrier hen would statistically produce 50% carriers and 50% non carriers.

 

[Kikiriki]

Hi cream legbar owners,

I have been reading through the thread because I love the blue eggs....if I ever get a cl it will be just one hen for the eggs as I cant have a roo.

I am wondering how faithful the blue color in the egg is both day to day and as the hen ages. I understand it is the shell color and not a pigment layed on the egg as is brown, but I still wonder if the color is highly variable.

I just want to add I think you all have really beautiful and happy chickens! I have really enjoyed speeding through a year of watching your birds grow up here in this thread!

 

[boykin2010]

Hi cream legbar owners,
I have been reading through the thread because I love the blue eggs....if I ever get a cl it will be just one hen for the eggs as I cant have a roo.
I am wondering how faithful the blue color in the egg is both day to day and as the hen ages. I understand it is the shell color and not a pigment layed on the egg as is brown, but I still wonder if the color is highly variable.
I just want to add I think you all have really beautiful and happy chickens! I have really enjoyed speeding through a year of watching your birds grow up here in this thread!

I can't speak for others but I know my hen is pretty consistent in the color of eggs she lays. They all are very very close in color. Always a light sky blue

 

[ChicKat]

Hi Kikiriki,

What a nice outlook! I'm just like you....wondering what color of blue and how blue----- :O)