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You'll get funky butterfly-esque and buttercup-esque combs very quickly if you cross a v-comb to a single comb. Just select for the arrangement you prefer. We don't have any butterfly comb breeds in the US.

Just buy from breeders that already do this. A lot of standardbred breeders have old hens that they hatch from for this very reason. Very healthy and vigorous birds.

Legbar colors are Cream, Golden Crele, White and Opal. You might find better reference materials and replies using the correct names of the variety instead of the weird hatchery names.

What is a Pearl Legbar?! We have cream, golden crele, white, and opal. Who has made up this new thing and what is it supposed to be?!

We got feedback that some language needs to be re-written, but mostly the club has just stalled out because must of the founding members/board members have had professional and personal obligations take over and they're now out. We are at a point where an election needs to be held to elect new...

There's been a lot of talk lately about "SOP chicks" in the Cream Legbar Group of America Page on FB and... it's a little disturbing. Lord-Patrick Joseph Reindel Jr. had a great response to a post earlier and some of the notes there bear repeating: 1) You can NOT tell if a chick is going to fit...

Selectively linebreeding a single strain from any of those breeds would produce the results you're looking for, and could be considered a landrace. All of my purebreds are landraces after I adapt them to my micro climate and local soil and environmental pathogens and endemic parasites and...

I used a Legbar over mottled Houdans and we're getting a few different varieties of autosexing now that have the Houdan traits, now in the 3rd generation. If some you're of wildtype already exists in the breed, just introduce barring. If barring exists, introduce wildtype, if barring exists...

What are you hoping to achieve in crosses that couldn't be achieved with selectively breeding either Biels or Giants to your needs? These aren't particularly unheard of traits, though finding good stock rather than hatchery stock can be a challenge. Still not as difficult as stabilizing a line...

Really happy with how this generation is coming along. I hatched over 100 chicks from this pen this spring and got solid pairs for probably 8 different phenotypes. Think I'm going to go with a general black based lavender pen, a black cuckoo and "ancobar" marking pen, and a duckwing pen that...

You do not want to use a white leghorn for this. Ideally you would have bred her back to the sire since if this is actually self blue AKA lavender and not just a light Andalusian blue it's a recessive trait and meant both parents carried at least one gene for the trait. Since it seems you've...

Genetically your white Legbar (which is the correct name, not "frosted" and no need to add "crested") is barred gold duckwing underneath his recessive white, probably also carrying recessive cream. All of the chicks will be barred, probably mostly in messy duckwing (crele) and black.

I think just suggesting that they are, after all, still a hatchery practicing flock breeding and there may be better quality stock available from breeders, like the one linked here.

This re-post also seems pertinent. I don't know if Kerby is on BYC, but this was a great post on FB that's worth sharing: Great post from Kerby Jackson. Outcrossing Bloodlines - There is really PRECISELY ZERO advantage to mixing lines unless one line can benefit from the genetic contribution...

I'm glad you brought this up. Your entire argument using the bulldog as example has ignored the omnipresent influence of the show ring and fad breeding and popular sires etc. These are problems, but they are NOT intrinsic to linebreeding or closed breeding groups. It's also worth mentioning that...