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GaryDean26 said:
my understanding is that "crele" is a barred wild type bird [e+/e+] + [B/+], so yes...I would call the Cream Legbar a crele colored bird. I have seen people post photos of birds that are single barred and lable them as Crele. I would think that you need a double barred bird to breeed true and that crele would be double barrings, but crele may by more correctly used for the single barred birds that I have seen posted. Does anyone have clarification the single/double barring as it partains to the Crele color?

I also have seen people that post imaged of barred Birchen based [Er/Er] + [B/+] that they call crele. I think that barred ER birds are more correctly called golden cuckoo, but am not really sure. Done anyone have clarification if an non-wild type bird (E, Er, eWh, eb, ey, etc) would be correctly called a crele?
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Thank you. I appreciate it.
 
GaryDean26 said:
I hope that Madamwlf with check her sales records and get a full report back from everyone she has sent eggs to of how many white chicks have been hatched from her eggs and what the percentage has been. Not necessary, but it would be interesting to check the predictions with with the real data.

I personally think that for a single gene that is fully expressed like recessive white that a simple 25/50/25 should be good modle for probability.

I think the complex probabilities start when you start looking at the probablility of multiple genes being passed together. That is when you have to start to look at how far the genes are mapped away from each other on the chromosome to determine the probablilites of ending up in the same bird.
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So far the most one individual has hatched is 3 I believe. Some of hatched none at all while others have hatched one or two. I just did a batch of 8 eggs and I had one hatch. The last batch I believe was around 7 eggs and I had one hatch there too. I believe the standard has been around 2 chicks per 6 eggs.
 
I got 2 yellow out of my 6.

I think even if the 25/50/25 isn't completely accurate, it's a good approximation. You should be okay as long as the buyer understands they may or may not get yellow chicks. I didn't look at your ad, but have you figured out if it's one or both of your hens throwing the yellows? Because that would decrease the overall percentage of yellow, it only one hen is a carrier out of two. The 25/50/25 applies to half the eggs(if only one hen is a carrier)
 
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Ok ... not to bore anyone, but I noticed today that my legbar rooster's pretty saddle feathers are coming in. (is that what they're called?) I don't know chicken terminology as well as I should.

His comb is also getting more red. :) He's purty.

Also.. what age should I start looking for eggs? They are at about 17 weeks right now.
 
so finally got to see my legbars that are about 10 weeks old. I had to move them up to my acreage property and my neighbor has been taking care of them. Thought I would add some pictures. 3 of the 4 hen are crested. 1 of the roos has a crooked tail (what's that called?) which is a bummer. Also, I noticed that a lot of the chickens combs are dry and a bit cracked or a few even with small sores. any ideas why?

 
I got to have some, where do you even find them? In Ohio?
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