Diamond Duchess?

[Obiwan Henobi]

I was thinking the same thing. I have been watching my own hens and it looks like they are starting to develop crests like yours. I hope they keep them!

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Would this nakee them Easter Eggers?

 

[DemeterAD9]

Would this nakee them Easter Eggers?

Essentially yes, just a fancy name for yet another cross that results in a colored egg layer. They really like to use the cream legbars in all sorts of crosses don't they? I've got the sapphire olive egger, a generic OE that looks like a legbar but with feathered legs, another sapphire something (sky maybe?) and now the diamond duchess. Hatcheries can cross a legbar to pretty much any breed with dark/medium brown eggs, slap a name on it and watch the $$$ pile up. To be fair, it's an easy way to create sex linked chicks. Use a legbar hen and throw a non barred rooster in and there ya go! Plus people tend to like the crested birds so it makes them even more marketable.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Essentially yes, just a fancy name for yet another cross that results in a colored egg layer. They really like to use the cream legbars in all sorts of crosses don't they? I've got the sapphire olive egger, a generic OE that looks like a legbar but with feathered legs, another sapphire something (sky maybe?) and now the diamond duchess. Hatcheries can cross a legbar to pretty much any breed with dark/medium brown eggs, slap a name on it and watch the $$$ pile up. To be fair, it's an easy way to create sex linked chicks. Use a legbar hen and throw a non barred rooster in and there ya go! Plus people tend to like the crested birds so it makes them even more marketable.

I see, thank you.