The Rhodebar thread!

[jeremy]

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Thank you very much for this!

 

[eggdd]

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if you change out the leghorn male with the rir male, will the chicks still be black unbarred females and black barred cockerels?

 

[catdaddyfro]

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if you change out the leghorn male with the rir male, will the chicks still be black unbarred females and black barred cockerels?

Yes the F1s will be Black sex-links= Black and white barred males and black females with red leakage in the head,neck, and chest areas some more than others.

Jeff

 

[jeremy]

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if you change out the leghorn male with the rir male, will the chicks still be black unbarred females and black barred cockerels?

I'm working on changing the chart right now, replacing the Brown Leghorn with Rhode Island Reds to hopefully avoid confusion. I've PMed Chris to help me out.

As soon as I have the new breeding chart finished, I'll post it for everyone!

 

[eggdd]

so how does the cream legbar lay a blue egg?

 

[Chris09]

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Only the Crested Cream Legbars will lay Blue Eggs.

Chris

 

[Chris09]

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if you change out the leghorn male with the rir male, will the chicks still be black unbarred females and black barred cockerels?

I'm working on changing the chart right now, replacing the Brown Leghorn with Rhode Island Reds to hopefully avoid confusion. I've PMed Chris to help me out.

As soon as I have the new breeding chart finished, I'll post it for everyone!

I will see what I can do on that chart.

Chris

 

[catdaddyfro]

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Only the Crested Cream Legbars will lay Blue Eggs.

Chris

Here ya go some interesting info:
http://www.creamlegbar.co.uk/

Jeff

 

[Chris09]

harislau.co.uk/ :

The Cream Legbar differs from the Gold Legbar and Silver Legbar which lay cream or white eggs in two ways; firstly it lays eggs with blue shells, and secondly it has a crest or head tuft, characteristics inherited from 'blue-egged fowl of Chile': it would probably have been better if the Cream Crested Legbar had been given a different name!

The Cream Crested Legbar was originally developed from the white egg laying Leghorn, and so generally lays a blue shelled egg; however the Barred Rock, which lays a tinted egg, also played a part in the creation of the breed so it is not unusual for some Cream Legbars to lay light blue/green/olive eggs. The Breed Standard includes a range of egg colours and strains of Cream Legbar may lay a mixture of egg colour, this indicates that either rigorous selection for blue egg colour has not been carried out, or that they are not a pure strain - the purest strains will lay predominantly blue eggs.

http://www.harislau.co.uk/autosexing-legbar.htm

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http://www.britannicrarebreeds.co.uk/breedinfo/chicken_legbar.php

Chris​

 

[jeremy]

Some more Rhodebars with the type of deep red color I would like to eventually have in my line. I don't really like the roo in this picture though.