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Cream Legbar Rooster - $25 (Crestwood)
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Expected Egg Colors by Cross
The following outcomes assume your male is a purebred Cream Legbar with two blue egg genes:
White Egg Layer (e.g., Leghorn): Produces 100% blue (powder blue) egg-laying offspring.
Standard Brown Egg Layer (e.g., Rhode Island Red): Produces 100% green or teal egg layers.
Dark Chocolate Egg Layer (e.g., Marans): Produces 100% olive egg layers (F1 Olive Eggers).
Blue Egg Layer (e.g., Ameraucana): Produces 100% blue egg layers.
Key Genetic Considerations for 2026
Dominant Gene: The blue egg gene is dominant; a hen only needs one copy to lay colored eggs.
Homozygous vs. Heterozygous: While purebred Cream Legbars should be homozygous, some hatchery or mixed lines may be heterozygous (carrying only one blue gene). If your rooster is heterozygous, about 50% of the offspring from a white-egg hen would lay blue eggs, while the other 50% would lay white.
Brown Pigment Overlays: Blue eggs are "blue through the shell." Green and olive eggs are actually blue shells with a brown pigment (protoporphyrin) painted over them by the hen. Crossing with any brown-egg breed will almost always result in green rather than true blue.
Explore how crossing a male Cream Legbar with white, brown, or blue egg layers influences offspring egg color based on genetics.gg layer and get blue egg layers from the offspring, Blue is dominant.