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Cream Legbar originally bred by R. C. Punnett

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Pros: Autosexing, blue egg laying, crested and cream! Gentle personalities if handled from hatch. Great parents and very protective!

Cons: Kind of expensive since they're rare, unless you swap eggs!

We love our beautiful Cream Legbars! We currently have 13 of these amazing birds. Our oldest hen lays 5-6 blue eggs a week! The best part to me, though, is that you can sex these birds at hatch.

Our pullets and cockerals follow us around the yard looking for treats. The older birds sing and talk to us when they see us. I must admit that the roosters have a bit of a reputation for really funny crowing sounds...everything from broken toy to peep sounds and everything normal in between! The Roosters are gentlemen (ie my girls don't have naked necks), great protectors, and keep a sharp eye on everyone. 

 

We bought our first pair at auction from Burton Farms, more birds from Huckleberry Farms, and hatching eggs from Lonnyandrinda and Cjwaldon.

 

A few pictures of some of the younger birds!

London watching over Kate and Diana

A boy!

 

A girl!

 

Graphite with Cider and Chocolate

 

156.JPGBlue and Lucy, our first pair

 

I just realized that I have not taken pictures of the older birds in a while. I'll add them soon!

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Pros: quiet, calm, friendly, sociable

I got my first Cream Legbars in May of 2012 in an egg swap. They hatched from beautiful sky blue eggs. I got 2 pullets and 2 cockerels, but one cockerel died at a few weeks old. They grew to become beautiful birds! Very friendly-one pullet never fails to meet me at the door and loves to be held and petted. I don't normally handle my chickens unless I need to, but I can't help enjoying having one who begs to be petted.

Update: I now have several more of these and they all have the same friendly, curious, social nature. Add that to the ability to tell pullets from cockerels at hatch, along with pretty blue eggs, and you have the perfect breed!

Cream Legbar originally bred by R. C. Punnett
Description:

Called Crested Cream Legbar, and most commonly Cream Legbar, you will find information for this breed under Legbar in the breeds listing here Please place your reviews and pictures under the Legbar listing - this entry is designed to direct those searching for information on Cream Legbars to the Legbar listing.

Details:
DetailValue
Breed PurposeDual Purpose
CombSingle
BroodinessSeldom
Egg ProductivityMedium
Egg SizeMedium
Egg Colorblue
Breed Temperamentmoderate
Breed Colors/Varieties
Breed SizeLarge Fowl
APA/ABA Class
Climate Tolerance
Models:
Model Name/TypeMPNEAN/UPC
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