Olive Eggers or Cream legbar?

[Mrichter11]

I was told these pretty girls are Olive Eggers. They do indeed lay beautiful green eggs. But, today I saw a picture or someone else’s Cream Legbar and she looks like my girls. My husband doesn’t think they look the same as the CL. I think he needs glasses.

 

[Noraaaaa]

I think cream legbar

 

[BigBlueHen53]

I believe CL lay a beautiful blue egg. If yours are laying green, they are OE.

I think @Debbie292d would know for sure.

 

[JedJackson]

They look pretty close to purebred cream Legbars, but I agree Legbars should lay blue rather than green eggs. They could be Legbar x Welsumer olive eggers. But it's a fine line, so I wouldn't say for sure.

 

[Chickens are life]

Looks a lot like Cream Legbars. Regarding egg colour, Cream Legbars generally lay blue eggs but can also sometimes lay light green eggs.

 

[Mrichter11]

Thank you all. I read that originally there were brown eggs in the Cream Leghorn lineage. Breeders were suppose to breed it out but some didn’t. Folks, like me, kept buying them. I know very little about genetics. I really don’t think they look like OEs. If these girls ever hatch eggs, it will be barnyard mixes. So it’s more of a curiosity thing.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Welp, lol. Now you know about as much as you did to start with.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

Whatever their lineage, you have some handsome birds and you get green eggs. I'd like some of those myself.

 

[Mrichter11]

 

[Mrichter11]

Whatever their lineage, you have some handsome birds and you get green eggs. I'd like some of those myself.

Thank you! They are good girls. One has a little speckle in its eggs.