White Sport Cream Legbars

[JennieRD]

Maybe I expressed my thoughts wrongs! I want to isolate the white gene for the an entirely seperate breeding pen ! Should I diversify the bloodline by breeding into my cream legbars so I can create one pen of a unrelated offspring focusing on crested white chicks! I have no intention of smothers my flick with the white gene! I'm not a genetic expert, but I'd never be able to fix a mistake like that! Maybe that would better explain my thoughts! I do not want to breed the color into my existing flick! I'm looking at creating an entirely seperate pen! The though of white legbars was never an idea, I stumbled on these birds and actually they are very nice and could not pass them up!

 

[sol2go]

Maybe I expressed my thoughts wrongs! I want to isolate the white gene for the an entirely seperate breeding pen ! Should I diversify the bloodline by breeding into my cream legbars so I can create one pen of a unrelated offspring focusing on crested white chicks! I have no intention of smothers my flick with the white gene! I'm not a genetic expert, but I'd never be able to fix a mistake like that! Maybe that would better explain my thoughts! I do not want to breed the color into my existing flick! I'm looking at creating an entirely seperate pen! The though of white legbars was never an idea, I stumbled on these birds and actually they are very nice and could not pass them up!

I also like the white sports, but have not tried to breed them directly. I actually agree with your thought to utilize standard Cream Legbars to diversify the parent stock if your goal is to breed white sports.

I would be interested to know if anyone has tried breeding a white sport to a standard CL which is split for white and what their experience has been.

I think the biggest drawback to introducing the white sports is size. So far my white sports have the smallest bodies, whether I received them from someone else's stock, or they were an unexpected result of my standard CL pairings.

It has been said by others with a long history in the APA, that the appearance of white sports are not a disadvantage for those breeding to the proposed SOP, as the requirement is for 50% of the offspring to be true to type, color, size and comb. In a standard CL x CL pairing with recessive white genes, only 25% of the offspring will be recessive white. The disadvantage in this case is introducing a CL white sport of unknown parentage to a standard CL breeding program as it is not known what colors the all white bird will pass along i.e. cream, gold, autosomal red, good barring, insufficient barring, white streaks, etc.

 

[JennieRD]

They will be laying soon, I'll just start there! Let them reproduce see what they produce, then decide from their! If I am lucky to obtain a 50/50 split ! I can cull the creams, and try inter grating deversity keeping the sports and culling the remainders! Trial and error!

 

[sol2go]

They will be laying soon, I'll just start there! Let them reproduce see what they produce, then decide from their! If I am lucky to obtain a 50/50 split ! I can cull the creams, and try inter grating deversity keeping the sports and culling the remainders! Trial and error!

keep us posted on your project

 

[Susieq2015]

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[duluthralphie]

Hi..

I Just found this thread, I was going to brag about my white cream legbar on a cream legbar thread and found this one.

Here is the one I hatched yesterday. She/he is my second one this year the first was weak and had bad legs and died in 2 days. This one is strong and seems very active.

 

[Susieq2015]

Hi.. I Just found this thread, I was going to brag about my white cream legbar on a cream legbar thread and found this one. Here is the one I hatched yesterday. She/he is my second one this year the first was weak and had bad legs and died in 2 days. This one is strong and seems very active.

That's so awesone! I have plans to try and replicate a white Legbar by crossing my CL roo with a white Leghorn, since it seems the only way to obtain one right now. They are so pretty, keep posting pics please as he/she grows!

 

[jerryse]

White leghorn are dominate white . Legbar white sports are recessive white . My interest is to see if the recessive whites will be auto sexable .

 

[duluthralphie]

I am hoping to get another one of these of the other sex.

I am getting one of these about every 25 chicks I hatch from my CLB's. But that could end soon. I have 2 rooster and 7 hens in one coop, I am moving them to two coops. Splitting them up to hopefully get a better hatch rate. If I split the pair (father/daughter or Mother/Son) that makes these I will get no more.

 

[Susieq2015]

White leghorn are dominate white . Legbar white sports are recessive white . My interest is to see if the recessive whites will be auto sexable .

I know i just want to make a bird that looks like one. I have pure Legbars but to my knowledge they do not carry the recessive white gene. I had one in my flock from 2012 but i dont have that flock anymore.