Cream Legbars are one of the most sought-after chicken varieties among those of us who love coloured eggs. They’re also one of the more complicated chickens to breed well. That’s why I went straight to the source, to the Cream Legbar’s home country of the UK where they were originally created at Cambridge University.
There I found experienced Cream Legbar breeder Ethan Rivers who’s been breeding the variety longer than it’s even existed in Australia.
In this conversation — the first of our series on Cream Legbars — we discuss the faults found in the variety, how to work with them and mistakes that can trip up beginner breeders.
The cream gene is denoted by the abbreviation Ig — you’ll hear Ethan refer to it that way in this conversation. Another term you’ll hear is “gold, split for cream” which means a bird that is gold but carries one copy of the cream gene, hidden because it’s recessive.
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