What Is an Opal Legbar?

Opal Legbars are a new beautiful addition to the line-up of autosexing breeds. ... Opal Legbar hens are pearl gray with either silver barring or light straw yellow accenting around their necks. Their darker color compliments the males' lighter silvery color perfectly. Some hens also have light peach breasts.

Are Opal Legbars good layers?

Opal Legbars hens are excellent layers of blue eggs. We have worked on the blue egg colour by breeding our Opal's back to our gorgeous Cream Legbar pullets. This will improve type, blue egg colour, auto sexing traits and feather quality.

How do you make Opal Legbar?

The first step to creating the Opal Legbar project was to introduce the lavender gene by crossing Cream Legbars to a breed that carried the lavender gene. Breeding two different breeds together creates a hybrid, which must then be bred back to type over many generations until the population is breeding true again.