Wrath's Marans

[wrathsfarm]

Do the silvers have the head spots or the coppers?

2 of the Silvers have a brown head spot.

 

[wrathsfarm]

was one of the legbar pullets splay legged?

Yes, I've got the legs bandaided together slightly wider stance than normal..

 

[wrathsfarm]

Doing good. Just busy. Gardening and chick season.

I'm raising some egger chicks. Hubby discovered chicken math.

I remember when it happened. It was about a month ago.
Just can't recall how it happened.
It's all fun! The chicks are cute. I've already spied a cockeral.

Looks like you are doing wonderful. Love seeing all the chicks. So happy for you!

That's good to hear...and it really wouldn't break my heart if you wanted to share pics.

 

[NanaK]

About 2 weeks ago I got lucky and caught all in one shot.

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[thistlewick]

You got 3 female legbars in this hatch. You can make sexlinked olive eggers now.

Wait how does this work? What do you put over the legbars?

 

[wrathsfarm]

Wait how does this work? What do you put over the legbars?

Marans x Legbars = Marsbars

Dark brown x Blue = Olives

Males are barred, females black with head spot. (Noooo...that's not right)

See Bantambirds post below for correction.

 

[wrathsfarm]

About 2 weeks ago I got lucky and caught all in one shot.
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Adorable little line up you have..

 

[thistlewick]

Marans x Legbars = Marsbars

Dark brown x Blue = Olives

Males are barred, females black with head spot.

So bcm over a legbar

What color is the head spot?

Male babies aren't barred as chicks so how do you sex them?

Confused!

 

[Bantambird]

So bcm over a legbar

What color is the head spot?

Male babies aren't barred as chicks so how do you sex them?

Confused!

The barred males have a big white spot on their heads, the females will be solid colored. In chickens, the barred genetics are on the male allele, but not on the shortened female allele, so the female legbars will only have one barring gene. They can only pass this on to their sons, and not their daughters, so the head spot (indicating barring) will only show up on the sons. With legbars, the headspot and pronounced barring is encouraged and they are, already, an autosexing breed. I could tell by those (blurry) pictures at a glance they were all female.

 

[thistlewick]

The barred males have a big white spot on their heads, the females will be solid colored. In chickens, the barred genetics are on the male allele, but not on the shortened female allele, so the female legbars will only have one barring gene. They can only pass this on to their sons, and not their daughters, so the head spot (indicating barring) will only show up on the sons. With legbars, the headspot and pronounced barring is encouraged and they are, already, an autosexing breed. I could tell by those (blurry) pictures at a glance they were all female.

Okay

Wrathsfarm just said the females will have the head spot so I was super confused.

Honestly seeing pics would be even more helpful. I'm aware of the differences in legbar chicks, but didn't know how that played out with a BCM cross