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.
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...
I know one lady in Tennessee that had some pretty good looking cuckoo project Faverolles that she was getting ready to release, but she might have had a major issue with her flocks. At any rate, I inquired about getting another white faverolle from her (she had a bunch of colors) and was told...
Ok but breeds literally would not exist without inbreeding and line breeding. If you're not getting consistency, which only happens from narrowing the gene pool to the point that they "breed true" it simply isn't a breed. Wild animals do this too. Many species including feral chickens breed...
You won't get much benefit from a Bresse, then. If you're just trying to make meat mutts, there are way better options.
Also, I thought this thread was about saving breed, not yet another one on making mutts. Don't get me wrong, I have as many fun crosses and mongrels around here as anyone, but...
Did I miss something? Why would you do this aside from creating meat mutts?
Am Bresse have some great, very serious breeders out there now doing fantastic work. Pick a line and develop your own line from that, a few years down the road if you discover there is a fault or defect you cannot...