Here are three of the five hybrid hens I hatched last year from a mating of a White Star/Cream Legbar hybrid cock and pure breed Cream Legbar hens. They lay gorgeous greeny-blue eggs and look like pure breed cream legbars. Their sisters however are white with ginger breasts and one lays a blue egg, the other a pure white one.  It just goes to show a) you never really can be sure what you’ll get when crossing hybrids with pure breeds, which is what makes it exciting and b) just because you see a cream legbar hen, don’t assume it’s a pure breed! However, the other lesson learnt is if you select for egg colour (as I did) you do stand a good chance of getting good coloured eggs from the offspring. I did this mating to see if I could replicate the really good quality eggs I was getting from the Ludlow Legbar hybrids I had hatched the previous year from a local supplier, and so far I have.