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    Cream Legbar?

    No, not a pure legbar. He could be a Legbar cross.
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    legbar mix genetics

    This is NOT a Marans mix. Those mixes all have grey legs and feathered shanks. The Welsummer/Legbar cross that was suggested above is more likely. The ear lobes on this hen are white. Crosses with most brown eggs layer result in red ear lobes. The hen has a lot of black plumage (crest...
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    Cream Legbar- Are these legit?

    [GaryDean26] Not Legit. She doesn't have a crest. She also have black lacing on all the breast feathers, Hackle feathers, etc. Not legit. Legbars are crested and have a salmon breast color (with no lacing). [GaryDean26] Not Legit. She has white legs (should be yellow), she is fawn/blond...
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    Cream Legbar rooster questons

    A flock sire only sees his keeper as one of two things 1) a competitor for the top of the pecking order, or 2) Food (a provider of food anyways, he doesn't want to eat you). If the cockerels sees you as an outside presence that is coming in uninvited he is going to warn you off and if you...
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    Making auto sexing chicks with a cream legbar rooster.

    Making new breeds is a long project. You are worried about small eggs, weird egg shapes, etc. in the legbars and you are sure to see all that an more if you are creating a new breed. Since you already have a hen flocks of one breed and a sire of another breed you could just breed hybirds. The...
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    Sex Link Genetics -Obal Legbar X Solid

    Yes, The Opal Legbars are barred and autosexing just like the Cream Legbars. You don't use a Barred Male to make sexlinks though. You used barred females. Eggs from Opal Legbar hens crossed to a Black Copper Maran Rooster will produce black sex-links. The males will be barred which will...
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    What color chicks- Frost White Legbar × Lavender Wyandotte?

    The size of the head dot have no relationship to gender in this case. In barred rocks the males are purebred for barring and carry two copies of the barring gene creating a larger head spot while the females only carry one copy of the barring gene resulting in a smaller head spot. All of these...
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    What color chicks- Frost White Legbar × Lavender Wyandotte?

    Legbars carry recessive white, so that will be canceled out in the cross and not be express. The Legbar cockerel will pass the wild type primary color pattern (brown hens with salmon breasts that are barred and crele cockerels). Lavendar is also recessive so it will also be crossed out. I...
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    Opal Legbar x Silverrudd's Blue Egg color

    The green will be prevalent?
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I have a source for the Blue Breda that I have been in touch with since 2018. I think I have source for the Cuckoo too.
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    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    My last Blue Breda hen died in 2020. She was five years old. She was about the best quality Breda hen I ever had (didn’t have any of the common defects most of our birds had). I was going to source a cockerel for her and hatch more if she made it one more year. It was sad to lose her, but...
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    Calling All Cream Legbar Breeders- 2024 Edition

    I searched the facebook groups and their is an "Opal Legbar" group with 1.2K members. The owner of the group is Jeffery Vitale in Michigan. I don't know him. The other group I found is "Opal and Isabel Legbar Fan Club". It also has 1.2K members. Probably all the same people as "Opal...
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    Calling All Cream Legbar Breeders- 2024 Edition

    Low production and fertility are the result of inbreeding depression. To achieve consistency in a line you have to be able to control the genetics and the quickest way to do that is to close the flock. Every breed that has ever been created used line breeding to some degree. Yes, it results in...
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    Calling All Cream Legbar Breeders- 2024 Edition

    Have you ever talked to an APA judge? No, there isn’t a difference. Enter some birds in an APA show (not a state or county fair or a 4H event). Then call the show director and ask who is assigned to judge the Legbars. Then find the judge’s contact info and send him/her a copy of the proposed...
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    Calling All Cream Legbar Breeders- 2024 Edition

    From the 1923 APA standards book.
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