Recent content by GaryDean26

No one mentioned the size problem of this project. Batam cockerels seem to be pretty good at producing fertile eggs with standard size hens, but getting offspring down to the size of an Olandsk Dwarf may never be possible. Bantam versions of standard size breeds are usually created by...

if you flip a penny five times the probability of you getting 4 heads and 1 tails is a lot higher than for you to get 400 heads and 100 tails out of 500 flips. The law of averages can get skewed if your sample population is too small. There are no lethal genes in a Marans x Legbar cross that...

Yes, They were created by cjwaldon. She was one of the 22 charter members of the Cream Legbar club. I am pretty sure that some of the hatcheries bought hatching eggs through 3rd party hatchers over the internet to get some of their Legbar stock back in 2012 (and probably did the same thing...

Myers Hatchery has Opal Legbars? That is very sad to hear. They were created by a lady here on BYC and the one flock of them I have been in contact with were pretty nice birds. It seems you can’t have anything anymore without the factories mass producing low cost versions of the breed.

No, not a pure Legbar. He is some type of cross. Legbars have white ear lobes and double barring. This guy has red ear lobes and single barring. All barred bred will have the double factor barring so this guy is definitely a mixed breed.

There is always a pecking order in a flock. The strongest and most fierce are at the top of the pecking order and the weakest and most timid are at the bottom. Size can make a difference in strength but my wife swears that the Legbar hens were the most fierce when she had a mixed laying flock...

Yes, I think this is genetic. It appears in some birds but not others that are on the same diet, housing, etc. It is recessive and behaves similar to a mottling gene.

I saw a Legbar flock while I was traveling out of state last week that had a hen that started out colored then started to turn mottled. I was told she started like yours and that she go more and more white over time. She was about 75% when when I was there. I think this is genetic since that...

Yes, pure Legbars always lay blue the blue egg gene is dominant so the hen does not have to be homozygous for the gene to produce blue eggs. My observation however is that hens who are homozygous lay bluer eggs. Our crosses had an almost white egg color that only had a hint of blue. We has...

No, I don't know of anyone selling gold or silver legbars in the US. I got some fertile eggs from H&H poultry in Burnett, TX the fall of 2010. The owner then had been working on her Legbar project for 6-years creating the autosexing from Plymouth Rock and Brown Leghorn crosses. There were a...

I think he looks pretty good. How old is he? The back looks good. No curves or saddles shape. Just a straight downward sloping back as it should be. the tail feathers look wide and full. I don't see sickle feathers yet which is why I ask on the age. he doesn't any positive white on his...

I had gold legbars in the USA before the imported Cream Legbars were available in the USA. They were created from a series of crosses between Brown Leghorns and Barred Plymouth Rocks. This is a photo of Ginger. She was my first legbar back in 2011. I hatched her from a tint color eggs and she...

We had a Black Copper Marans that crowed. She was the case that TedJackson referred to. She had the masculine head (big comb, large wattles), never laid eggs, and crowed. When we culled her I examined the internal organs when I did the evisceration and she defiantly was a hen, but she would...

I bred a line of BCM for about 3 years. I didn't have anything to compare the quality of egg from my flock with, but people on I talked to at chicken events and what not would say things like if your hen ever produces an egg even once that is not a No. 4 or darker that you should cull her and...

Nope, not a Legbar and probably not a she either. As already stated the legbar chicks are chipmunk patterned. The shes have a tan ground color with brown dorsal stripes that have white edges to them. The shes have the black Cleopatra eye liner from the corner of their eyes and brown V on...