Where did the chicken which was part of cross breed for Legbar originate?
Legbar The Legbar is a rare British autosexing chicken breed. It was created in the early twentieth century by Reginald Crundall Punnett and Michael Pease at the Genetical Institute of Cambridge University. It was created by cross-breeding Barred Plymouth Rock chicken, Leghorns, Cambars, and in the case of "Cream Legbars", Araucanas. The Araucana blood in the "Cream Legbar" is reflected in its crest and blue to blue-green eggs.
Malines (chicken) The Malines, Dutch: Mechelse Koekoek , is a Belgian breed of large domestic chicken. It originates from the area of Mechelen (French: "" ), in the province of Antwerp in Flanders, for which it is named. It was created in the nineteenth century by cross-breeding local cuckoo-patterned farm chickens with various different types of imported Oriental chicken. With the Jersey Giant, it is among the heaviest of all chicken breeds. It is valued for the quality of its meat, which is pale in colour and fine-textured.