What colour eggs should our 'Copper Blue Maran / Cream LegBar cross' actually lay ??

[BigFuzzball]

What colour eggs should our 'Copper Blue Maran / Cream LegBar cross' actually lay please ??
We have her (Olive) and a 'Buff Sussex' (Maisie) both yet to start laying and this afternoon I found a rounder, shiny dark redish-brown egg in the main coop and not the nestbox, plus our other brown egg layer is a 9 month old Welsummer (Dottie) who lays darker, duller 'milk-chocolate' coloured egg and always in the nestbox.......
We were told by the breeder that Olive would probably lay a couple of weeks after Maisie as she's approx' 2wks younger, was badly bullied before we had her and is still smaller as she was denied food (as well as badly pecked) and we're feeding her up lol, so, is this Maisies first egg or Olives ?
Breeder was sure that she's both an 'Easter egger' and would lay 'olive' coloured eggs...............any ideas please folks ??

 

[WVduckchick]

She should be an Olive Egger.
Marans being dark red, cream legbar being blue, should equal olive.

 

[WVduckchick]

So looking like our Welsummer has been lazy but also produced a redder egg !
Mind you, our Cream LegBar was supposed to lay blue eggs but she's been laying creamy coloured ones with a definite pinkish tint (with some of THE hardest shells I've come across)
The wait for the newbies to lay continues then !
Thanks WVduckchick

If your cream legbar isn’t laying blue, she is not full blooded cream legbar. Or they aren’t her eggs? They should have some blue to them, or greenish tint at least. Have any pics of her?

Most eggs, and I think it’s especially visible in blues and dark reds, color will be more or less intense throughout each laying cycle. So your welsummer color will darken and lighten.

I had 2 pullets, both from Black Cooper Marans hen, fathered by Cream Legbar. They were both Olive, but obvious different shades from one girl to the other.
Left side from one, right side from other, CL egg in center, random bantam cochin egg on bottom

 

[aart]

Lexi looks like a straight up CLB.

 

[BigFuzzball]

Fascinating how the cross-breeding produces certain changes though ! Her breeder called her a 'Needwood Cream LegBar' presumably after the village they're situated in, but were adamant she 'should' lay blue tinted eggs.
When looking for LegBar pics to compare her with, there was an article online linked to a CLB pic which said that when the CLB breed first came to the UK there was some cross breeding (not sure with what) which resulted in a 'Fenton Legbar' - pics also look uncannily like Lexi but apparently the 'Fenton' didn't lay the blue, but produced a creamy almost pink tinted egg ?
No mention of the 'Fenton' for decades so maybe a made up story ?? Or......Lexi is a throwback to that bird ?
Whatever Lexi may or may not be she's a gorgeous really friendly character that our kids love to feed from their hands & just have sit on their knee

 

[aart]

Fascinating how the cross-breeding produces certain changes though ! Her breeder called her a 'Needwood Cream LegBar' presumably after the village they're situated in, but were adamant she 'should' lay blue tinted eggs.
When looking for LegBar pics to compare her with, there was an article online linked to a CLB pic which said that when the CLB breed first came to the UK there was some cross breeding (not sure with what) which resulted in a 'Fenton Legbar' - pics also look uncannily like Lexi but apparently the 'Fenton' didn't lay the blue, but produced a creamy almost pink tinted egg ?
No mention of the 'Fenton' for decades so maybe a made up story ?? Or......Lexi is a throwback to that bird ?
Whatever Lexi may or may not be she's a gorgeous really friendly character that our kids love to feed from their hands & just have sit on their knee

I wondered if it might be something like that, good sleuthing and thanks for sharing.
There's big long Legbar thread here somewhere, might find an answer there...but I couldn't find thread with quick search..

 

[thepick4uchicks]

She should be an Olive Egger.
Marans being dark red, cream legbar being blue, should equal olive.
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Wow! This is very interesting and informative thanks for taking the time to educate and post this. I have a Creme Legbar3 myself and was curious as to what the answer was.

 

[aart]

What colour eggs should our 'Copper Blue Maran / Cream LegBar cross' actually lay please ??

Green.

Breeder was sure that she's both an 'Easter egger' and would lay 'olive' coloured eggs.

Good and honest description.

You won't know for sure until she lays!

 

[aart]

There's big long Legbar thread here somewhere, might find an answer there...but I couldn't find thread with quick search..

@BigFuzzball that thread finally came up:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/cream-legbars.509483/page-1201#post-23059940

 

[duluthralphie]

I am not sure she is “pure”.

I thought the leg color might be off.

I am guessing someone “put” something in her lineage to enhance a trait. Sometimes Show people do that..


I might have done that once or twice myself,,,, maybe.

A few years ago I was forced to “tinker” with my Chanticlers. I had a great Pullet. She had taken Best of breed at a large show.

The next morning when I checked on her she had laid her first egg.... green/olive.

I asked a friend what I should do, he said toss the egg and say nothing.

@erlibrd owns her as I didn’t want the egg color coming back in future generations. She is Erlibrd’s favorite bird, a beautiful olive egg laying Chanticler. She even named her princess, because she loves her so much.

The point of this story is a bird does not always reveal its heritage by looks alone. Even Judges can be fooled. We have SOPs and not pedigrees. So a bird is what she looks like, unless egg color gives them away..

The OP’s bird, no offense meant here, is not a show quality bird, so I would keep her and never hatch an egg from her, unless she has attitude problem. You might love her as much as Erlibrd loves Princess..