The Legbar Thread!

[redchicken9]

CJWaldon, Nice comparison on the chicks and their color! Will go back through my photos to see.

 

[redchicken9]

I'd say all charcoal.

 

[Buckhunter76]

Cool, I checked the site, they have none and it sent me to an auction, lol, Thanks though, Wow, those birds are hard to get and expensive

 

[madamwlf]

You could always try hatching eggs.

 

[GaryDean26]

... 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?

They could have Fowl Pox. Signs of that are sores on the combs.

 

[GaryDean26]

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

The Fancy Chicken is in Northern Ohio.

www.TheFancyChick.com

 

[GaryDean26]

You could try the fancy chick. www.thefancychick.com Just found them on the internet search. I can't vouch for them personally.

I know that they have been selling juvinile pairs on rarebreedauctions.com (and hatching eggs on ebay, I think?). I can vouch for them either, but they appear to be running things well.

 

[GaryDean26]

These are my two CCL males, one week old.


The one on the top is charcoal, the one on the bottom is brown.

My internet was down over the weekend, so I pulled out an 1940 Publication by R.C. Punnett on Legbars Genetic. In it he talked about the chick down color (I was so excited to find this information). The original crossing in the Legbar project was an imporrted Barred Plymoth Rock from Canada over local Brown Leghorns from the UK. The second season Punnett imported Brown Leghorns from Denmark because they were said to be more hardy and better layers that the UK stain of brown legbars. The paper when on to say that the charcol colored males and darker colored females were a gene from the Danish strain of leghorns and that the golden colored males and light colored females were from the english Brown Leghorns. Punnett did four test mates between the light and dark colored legbars and proved that the dark color is dominant and tha the light color is ressesive. Birds that have one of each tend to be the dark color.

 

[ChicKat]

My internet was down over the weekend, so I pulled out an 1940 Publication by R.C. Punnett on Legbars Genetic. In it he talked about the chick down color (I was so excited to find this information). The original crossing in the Legbar project was an imporrted Barred Plymoth Rock from Canada over local Brown Leghorns from the UK. The second season Punnett imported Brown Leghorns from Denmark because they were said to be more hardy and better layers that the UK stain of brown legbars. The paper when on to say that the charcol colored males and darker colored females were a gene from the Danish strain of leghorns and that the golden colored males and light colored females were from the english Brown Leghorns. Punnett did four test mates between the light and dark colored legbars and proved that the dark color is dominant and tha the light color is ressesive. Birds that have one of each tend to be the dark color.

You are the research genius...is the paper online? Anyway thanks mucho for the information!! Legbars just get more interesting with each passing month...... So if the time holds true better layers should come from the charcoal strains.... Let's see..1940 is only 72-years ago....lol.

 

[cjwaldon]

Yes, thanks for sharing GaryDean. I can't get away from BYC long enough to research anything.