US Crele and White Sport Legbar Breeders - Alternative Legbar Group, for those not breeding to the P

[Bean789]

You can always edit your post if you want

As far as I know, Jill Rees line does not have the White Sport gene. Only line A or B had them. Someone correct me if I am wrong!
So if you are going to cross a Jill Rees roo with a line C Legbar, your chances of getting a White Sport will be zero.

Yes, I did say the GFF A before but have corrected it now. I want to make sure I state my birds correctly especially when I ask a gazillion questions about them.

You are probably very correct about the Jill Rees lack of the white genetics. It is a shame though for me. One of my friends has a GFF C roo, if I have stated that correctly. She got hers when GFF started selling their lines in order to bring in the Jill Rees. She has never gotten a white chick though so maybe only the A & B lines had the genetics to produce one unless bred into them later.

Locally here a lot of people have the GFF lines but they are now breeding them with the Jill Rees lines and getting quite a bit of color disparity in their birds, even when they are the same sex, just as others here are getting with their GFF lines with no Jill Rees birds in their flocks.

 

[sol2go]

I have read this entire thread thus far and still have a question on the males. I have 6 CCL roos, Jill Rees lines, purchased at auction from GFF. They are approximately 4 weeks old at this point. Their heads have differing colors with 1 showing an almost totally slightly barred creamy head while the others darken to the rather dark shades with 2 of them having the 'grey/black' barring on their heads. If I were to assess these birds for future coloring in trying to keep the one that will maybe/possibly produce the White Sport chicks when mated with either a GFF a hen or a Jill Rees line hen, which one should I keep? The others are going to new homes tomorrow. The females in my group of pullets are differing in colors as well with the darker one from GFF C line. I may have stated that she was from the A line in a prior posting here but was mistaken. Can't go back and look at this point or I will lose what typed here and my train of thought. LOL

I don't think more or less barring will help to differentiate which roos might carry recessive white genes, as recessive white requires 2 copies to produce an all white bird. It's all or nothing as far as I know / have seen in my flock and I don't know of any partial indicators.

 

[caychris]

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[caychris]

Here is my new girl at 13 weeks and I see lots of Gold/brown by comparison to this girl at roughly the same age maybe a bit older
this is the second now


Im thinking the first is more in line with the Tri-color and the second more with Cream.

Here is the boy I have right now and at 13-14 weeks not very sure where he turns out but the chestnut in the saddle area makes me think he would be better on the Tri color side.




I have 3 chicks just under a week old 2 boys and a girl from the same parent flock. The chick down is very different than these were but with all the color variation in chick down I don't think it tells me much.

 

[gootziecat]

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[jerryse]

Crele cockerel . Single barred .

 

[ChicKat]

Crele cockerel . Single barred .

That's one flashy cockerel Jerryse! What is his parentage?

 

[jerryse]

That's one flashy cockerel Jerryse! What is his parentage?

Legbar dad light brown Leghorn mom .

 

[ChicKat]

Legbar dad light brown Leghorn mom .

wow. interesting chicken for sure.

 

[enola]

I know this is a crappy picture, but this is a one year old cockerel that is a cross between a Cream Legbar rooster over a brown leghorn hen. I don't like his comb at all, but I think his coloring is beautiful.