Aloha kakou,
In my limited hatch from eggs from Oklahoma, my only cream legbar female was a white sport. Although she is not SOP, she is quite beautiful. There was some discussion about them on the Cream Legbar threads, but I would like to bring discussion in a separate thread to keep all shared information in one place. Here are some of my questions to start the discussion:
1) Are White Sports a result of two copies of a recessive gene? This seems to be the case as they are very rare.
2) Is there another gene that also makes cream legbars display white feathers? I have a cockerel that displays some white feathers. These white feathers seem to be growing out as this cockerel ages.
3) If a white sport rooster was mated to a white sport hen, would they produce offspring or would that union be lethal(kind of like the tufted gene in araucanas)? Some people said it might be lethal but I'd like to hear from people who have more than one and have bred them.
4) Are there any other genes that seem to be linked with this gene?
Mahalo, Puhi
In my limited hatch from eggs from Oklahoma, my only cream legbar female was a white sport. Although she is not SOP, she is quite beautiful. There was some discussion about them on the Cream Legbar threads, but I would like to bring discussion in a separate thread to keep all shared information in one place. Here are some of my questions to start the discussion:
1) Are White Sports a result of two copies of a recessive gene? This seems to be the case as they are very rare.
2) Is there another gene that also makes cream legbars display white feathers? I have a cockerel that displays some white feathers. These white feathers seem to be growing out as this cockerel ages.
3) If a white sport rooster was mated to a white sport hen, would they produce offspring or would that union be lethal(kind of like the tufted gene in araucanas)? Some people said it might be lethal but I'd like to hear from people who have more than one and have bred them.
4) Are there any other genes that seem to be linked with this gene?
Mahalo, Puhi