True Ameraucana x Cream Legbar Cross or Blue Isbar Cross

[French Cat]

I am curious to see if you have done these crosses? If yes, would you share your experience?

 

[pertyjewely]

I have a self blue Amerucuana roo and a created cream legbar hen I will be breeding in the spring. I think pullets will be black/ Roos barres is that correct with both carriers of the blue egg gene.

 

[JoPoKa]

I have a self blue Amerucuana roo and a created cream legbar hen I will be breeding in the spring. I think pullets will be black/ Roos barres is that correct with both carriers of the blue egg gene.

How did you crosses turn out?

 

[Bridget-Louisiana]

thats hard to say, no two cream legbar females lay the same shade of blue, so that depends on the shade you started with

I believe there is a few olive eggers in the Olive egger thread that were created using Cream legbars..


Olive eggers lay darker green eggs, isbar lay green eggs

This PRETTY GREEN EGG was produced from a Cream Legbar rooster to a French Black Copper Maran hen. I found it on Pinterest; haven't breed them myself to confirm egg color.

 

[nicalandia]

This PRETTY GREEN EGG was produced from a Cream Legbar rooster to a French Black Copper Maran hen. I found it on Pinterest; haven't breed them myself to confirm egg color.

Super Cool....

 

[Stephanie Mitchell]

This blue egg is from an Easter egger of mine. I'm not sure her exact breeding, though I know she has ameraucana because of her muffs and beard and her legs are slate. I'm breeding her with a purebred blue wheaton ameraucana. I'm excited to see the offspring and especially to see how they lay when it comes time. I'll be banding them so I know who's who. I also have another Easter egger who lays a perfect light olive green egg. Trying to upload a picture for contrast. Her babies with the same rooster I'm hoping will have interesting colours of feather and eggshell. It's a good thing they take a while to mature or id be breeding nonstop it's an addiction!

 

[Stephanie Mitchell]

There's a few for comparison

 

[LoompaLand]

The rooster determines egg color.

 

[Snugglesandwigglespetcare]

nicalandia- thanks for your help. I need to find a pic of that egg from the OE maran/cream legbar cross! I am curious to see if the color has any differences.

So- if you hand selected Cream Legbars and Ameraucanas with brighter blue eggs to cross would that hypothetically strengthen the blue laying gene? I just really want to see one of these crosses. I might just have to do it and get back in a year or so. Haha.

There are a lot of fancy breeds that lay colored eggs but I have found that a lot of the blue/green layers produce a murky, barely colored egg in a lot of the lines. Rarely, you see a true turquoise egg or a "spearmint" green egg. I am trying to figure out if it is possible to produce brighter truly colored eggs using smart genetic matches.

The dark green egg is from my marans/CCL cross