The Legbar Thread!

[1Chick Magnet]

ha , ha computer glitch i hope with those six posts. before i got my juveniles separated. my legbar cockerels crossed with a silkie pullet and I got a very cool looking CL/silkie that I gave to a friend who will keep track of it for me to see how it grows out. It was a cool looking chicken that I really wanted to keep but their kid fell in love with it so I had to let it go. :-(

what color was the silkie? that sounds very interesting.

 

[nicalandia]

what color was the silkie? that sounds very interesting.

I´m more interested on what was the color of the silkie it was crossed to and if it was a male or female that hatched..

 

[Miss Molly]

Hi, i went to my hens today to find there had been an attack, Melow and my ex batt flora were missing, i found flora dead with a big bite and i followed a trail of feathers to find Melow and the feathers just cut off and i searched for two hours and couldn't find her, will look again tomorrow, i hope shes alive, i love her! at first i thaught it was the two chick coz mama came up the field alone but it wasnt, it was little Melow and flora! hope i find her, she was a good mama to them two chicks! even though she didnt lay blue eggs. :'(

Keeping my fingers crossed they show up so sorry!

 

[Papa Brooder]

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Quote: As I have been thinking about it, I'm pretty sure that it was a blue silkie. The chick that hatched has the coloration of a cream legbar female but with silkie feathering and 5 toes (at least one foot, I can't recall if both had 5). Is that possilbe nicalandia? a male CL cockerel over a blue silkie hen throwing that kind of chick? I know nothing of genetics. I guess there is a small chance it was a smooth black sizzle roo over a CL pullet.... but no, that wouldn't give the silkie feathering right, so it must be the first.

 

[GaryDean26]

I crossed a Blue Silkie x Cochin cockerel (that was supposed to be a pullet) with a white Leghorn last year. We had a pullet hatch (we only set one egg) that ended up with five toes (one both feet). So the five toes from the silkie line looks dominant.

The black bones and black meat from the Silkie line appears to be dominant too. Our crossed pullet has a single comb and the cockerel had a walnut comb. The pullet got white ear lobes and the cockerel had blue ear lobes. Our pullet is crested, which we know is dominant. Our cockerel didn't have silky feathering. I am not really sure how to describe it. It was very fluffy in the hackle and wings with standard feathering on the rest of the body. Our pullet has standard feathers on the full body. Both the cockerel and his daughter that was crossed with the leghorn have heavily feathered shanks. I am not sure if the shank feathering is from the Silkie line of the Cochin line (or both), but Punnett wrote a paper on the inheritance of feathered shanks, and I am guessing that you will have a least lite feathering on the toes and shanks. Our cockerel and pullet both had the blue/slate shanks.

 

[Phage]

I was working on a mottled silkie project (still sort of am), and crossed exchequer leghorns with a very nice white white rooster.
All the F1 babies were black, crested, had super super soft feathers, 60% had 5 toes, all had black skin, though the females were blacker, and all had a walnut comb. Some may have have had beards, and some wattles, and they all had some leg feathering.

So the white was recessive
The crest, black skin, comb, feathered shanks, 5 toes were dominant or at least partially expressed with one gene.
These were super cute chickens!

The best of the roos were crossed back to 2 white unrelated silkie hens. They produced:

Mottled, white, black and partridge color
silkied and non silkied
most had 5 toes, big crests, black skin, feathered shanks.
some single combs (of course they turned up on silkied mottled birds

)

Now I am waiting for eggs from the mottled silkied x mottled silkied.

Have to say the non silkied mottled birds were stunning with huge crests, and probably nicer than the silkied!

Opps sorry - off topic

 

[Johnn]

Couldn't find her :'(!!!!!! my mam is going to go have a look tomorrow, but what im starting to feel is that someone went to steal some, couldn't catch them so set their dogs off and it got out of control, it killed flora so they left her and caught Melow so they took her, not sure though, just can not find her! , there was a trail of feathers all the way to flora and this is all i have for Melow!, there is other feathers but they leed up to that then it suddenly stops.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-hatch-a-long-and-informational-thread/14410#

 

[blackbirds13]

Couldn't find her :'(!!!!!! my mam is going to go have a look tomorrow, but what im starting to feel is that someone went to steal some, couldn't catch them so set their dogs off and it got out of control, it killed flora so they left her and caught Melow so they took her, not sure though, just can not find her! , there was a trail of feathers all the way to flora and this is all i have for Melow!, there is other feathers but they leed up to that then it suddenly stops.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...-hatch-a-long-and-informational-thread/14410#

That is horrible! I feel so badly for you Johnn. Still keeping my fingers crossed for you. The 2 legged predators are the worst. I try so hard not to get too attached but sometimes it still happens.

 

[RyeRanch]

I have a legbar hen who just started laying and then suddenly stopped last week. Her first two eggs were sort of "fart" eggs and did not have a yolk. She then got it together and laid about 7 more eggs that were smallish but respectable size, then nothing.

She free ranges with the flock all day so I have spent the last week convinced that she is laying a clutch of eggs somewhere. After turning up the yard and finding nothing, I locked the whole flock in thier coop/run for the last 5 days and have determined she is just not laying. She is about 23 weeks old, seems healthy and normal. I have noticed that the other hens are not layin with the frequency that they were and have sort of attirbuted it to shorter daylight hours.

Anyone have any experience with legbars being very sensitive to shortened daylight hours or a stop/start laying when they first start? I would love to know.


Thanks!

 

[Miss Molly]

I have a legbar hen who just started laying and then suddenly stopped last week. Her first two eggs were sort of "fart" eggs and did not have a yolk. She then got it together and laid about 7 more eggs that were smallish but respectable size, then nothing.

She free ranges with the flock all day so I have spent the last week convinced that she is laying a clutch of eggs somewhere. After turning up the yard and finding nothing, I locked the whole flock in thier coop/run for the last 5 days and have determined she is just not laying. She is about 23 weeks old, seems healthy and normal. I have noticed that the other hens are not layin with the frequency that they were and have sort of attirbuted it to shorter daylight hours.

Anyone have any experience with legbars being very sensitive to shortened daylight hours or a stop/start laying when they first start? I would love to know.


Thanks!

Mine started out that way....