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Gold Legbar

Young Welbar cock

Welbar x Cream Legbar chicks:

Chicks from a cross of two autosexing pure breeds are also autosexing. There are 3 females and one male in the photo. The male is the creamier one top left of photo. The females are browner and more strongly marked. The female at the top right of the photo is a little indistinct and in selecting breeders for pure stock would be best avoided.

Rhodebar cockerel

Welbar x Cream Legbar hen lays an olive green egg.

Rhodebar cockerel & Cream Legbar hen

Rhodebar hen

Autosexing pure breed poultry

I have Rhodebar poultry and a mix of hens that lay a variety of coloured eggs including cream legbar (sky blue), welbar x cream legbar (green), welsummer (chocolate brown), vorwerk and gold legbar (white), light sussex (tinted).

None lay as many or as large eggs though as the ducks.

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I have Gold Legbar, Cream Legbar and Rhodebar hens and a Rhodebar cockerel. These are all pure breeds that are autosexing - the sexes can be identified by colour at day old.

The Gold Legbar was developed from the Brown Leghorn and Plymouth Rock and lay a white egg.

The Cream Legbar was developed from these also but has the addition of Araucana to give a blue egg layer (and a crest).

The Rhodebar is developed from the Golden Brussbar (from Brown Sussex) and Rhode Island Red and lays a tinted brown egg.

I also have some Welbar crossed with Cream Legbar hens. A Welbar based on the Welsummer lays a chocolate brown egg. The cross lays an olive-green egg see bottom right egg. If pure breed legbars are crossed this also gives autosexing chicks see below. Females are more strongly coloured and marked, the males are creamer. Males have a double dose of barring (from the Plymouth Rock) and as can be seen from the Welbar cock photo are rather handsome. Females have only a single dose giving only have a hint of barring that can be seen in the Rhodebar compared with a Rhode Island Red photo above.

The Cotswold Legbar (photo above) is not a pure breed but a hybrid and is not autosexing they come in a wide variety of colours.

Rhodebar pullet

Young Rhodebar x (Welbar x Cream Legbar) cock

Young Rhodebar x (Welbar x Cream Legbar) pullet

and with 2 blue genes

BlueRed Leghorn pullet