The Legbar Thread!

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I was able to snag a couple more pics today as I was doing chores before work. The first pic shows the rose combs and heads better and the second pic shows the type so far, they have better tails than the father. One of these days I'll get out there with a real camera...

 

[Phage]

FMP - that is an awesome project you have going there.

And as for buying eggs/chicks, I for sure will be exceedingly careful where I get eggs/birds from. It makes sense that people who want to be know as having pure birds will have good records, even just of their own birds and where they came from. That should be trivial to do. No need to keep detailed records on where offspring ended up as you can't control anything or know what happened to them once they leave your property.

 

[omaeve]

I was able to snag a couple more pics today as I was doing chores before work. The first pic shows the rose combs and heads better and the second pic shows the type so far, they have better tails than the father. One of these days I'll get out there with a real camera...

pretty birds!!!1 what is in the rose combs they look nice too.. my babies are starting to get wing and tail feathers can not wait to see how they turn out.

 

[ChicKat]

Black cream legbars?

Here are photos of two of my new babies. I have yet to see any this dark. I suspect that they will lighten, but the chick down is Jet Black....the girls beige chipmunk stripes...the boys white head spots.





I got two girls and two boys...these chicks are really dark, even darker than the photo's show.

 

[normanack]

flyingmonkeypoop, I didn't realize just how beautiful your birds are. Wow!

 

[omaeve]

Black cream legbars?

Here are photos of two of my new babies. I have yet to see any this dark. I suspect that they will lighten, but the chick down is Jet Black....the girls beige chipmunk stripes...the boys white head spots.





I got two girls and two boys...these chicks are really dark, even darker than the photo's show.

I have 2 pullet chicks one with the black stripe and one with the brown same hatch so i will legband them to see if coloring is different when they are hens

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I also ended up with one female of each, black and brown, and will watch color as they age. This is something several people have been wondering about.

Rinda

 

[ChicKat]

I also ended up with one female of each, black and brown, and will watch color as they age. This is something several people have been wondering about.

Rinda

I have 2 pullet chicks one with the black stripe and one with the brown same hatch so i will legband them to see if coloring is different when they are hens

Here's my theory... it is getting late in the year...and these dark chicks are designed to absorb the max solar energy. It will be interesting to see how they grow out. :O)

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

For those that haven't known about my project- these are what I am calling legbarhorns since they are a cross. They are all light brown but carry cream gene so the plan is to breed them back to a legbar rooster and I should get all cream legbars, most of them will have rose combs and a few will have single combs based on the cross. I used a rose combed light brown leghorn hen bred to my legbar rooster. I don't like how late they (legbars) start laying, mine started around 6 months old. The leghorn I used started laying around 19/20 weeks old. I also don't like the blocky body, the huge single combs, and pinched and awkward tails the legbars have so I set out to make my own line of legbars that will be rose combed and have a better flow (in my eyes) to their body. Once these little ladies start laying, I will fire up the incubator and start hatching my first 'pure' rose combed cream legbars. By this time next year, I hope to have my second generation of them hatching out and breeding well enough to sell birds/eggs

 

[GaryDean26]

For those that haven't known about my project- these are what I am calling legbarhorns since they are a cross. They are all light brown but carry cream gene so the plan is to breed them back to a legbar rooster and I should get all cream legbars, most of them will have rose combs and a few will have single combs based on the cross. I used a rose combed light brown leghorn hen bred to my legbar rooster. I don't like how late they (legbars) start laying, mine started around 6 months old. The leghorn I used started laying around 19/20 weeks old. I also don't like the blocky body, the huge single combs, and pinched and awkward tails the legbars have so I set out to make my own line of legbars that will be rose combed and have a better flow (in my eyes) to their body. Once these little ladies start laying, I will fire up the incubator and start hatching my first 'pure' rose combed cream legbars. By this time next year, I hope to have my second generation of them hatching out and breeding well enough to sell birds/eggs

Buy all cream legbars do you mean that you will get all double barred Legbarhorns cockerels? The Legbarhorns won't all have the cream gene, or all be homogeneous for blue eggs. The cream color is recessive and requires to copies to manifest itself. The blue eggs gene is dominate and only requires one blue egg gene to manifest it self, so you will need to test mate breeders for the blue egg gene. Test mating will also be required on breeders to lock cresting into the line since it can be manifest with the gene from a single parent.

You should start a new thread for Legbarhorns.


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Here's my theory... it is getting late in the year...and these dark chicks are designed to absorb the max solar energy. It will be interesting to see how they grow out. :O)

LOL.

My dark down ladies end up with a darker plumage than my light ladies.

These are not the best photos to show since you cant see the strip on the light chick (right) or the full body on the hens, but the dark down chick (left) defiantly turned out darker plumage for me. The dark hen appeared to be homozygous for the dark down. All of her chick were dark downed. The cockerel I used was also of dark down, but appeared to be spit between light and dark because I got about 20% (Exact %?) light down from the light downed hen using the same cockerel.


dark hen (left) light hen (right)