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I had one pullet go broody two months after she started laying. Hatched her chicks and then abandoned them. I also had a couple of crosses go broody and be good mamas but that may have been the influence of the other breeds. Since Leghorns are not known for being broody, I suspect you won't...

Rinda and Tony, I am so sorry to hear about your CL misfortunes. Our LGD (14 months old) insists on playing with one of our Silkie roosters. They are in the pasture with him, but in topless PVC tractors. The girls and youngsters stay put but that stupid rooster insists on flying onto the bar...

The willow tone on CL chicks, at least the ones I have, all matured as deep yellow. I thought it may have something to do with the blue egg gene as EEs and Ameraucanas all have deep willow legs at maturity but GaryDean's research indicates that isn't the case. A melanizer makes sense as all...

GaryDean: I started with 18 Basque eggs from Skyline (16 hatched) and 5 chicks from GFF. None of them had willow legs. Guess I just got lucky. I had millefleur, white legs, blondies and a heterozygous barred rooster. Out of all those chickens I ended up with a breeding trio. Ashdoes...

Never saw any willow legs on my Basques only white before I selected away from it. As for outrageous bidding on the earliest release that's easy. The first people to have eggs or chicks available outside of GFF can cash in on the higher prices. Supply and demand. After all the $$$ I've...

It is a greenish cast on the yellow skin of shanks/feet. I don 't know where it comes from genetically but it matures completely yellow.

A greenish cast to the yellow skin. Don't know where it comes from but they will mature completely yellow.

So right. Some things never change.

Heathcliff's first batch of offspring at a little over a week old. Some are just beginning to show the down lift bump where crests will come in. Four cockerels and seven pullets. Decent hatch rate though I think I have to adjust my incubator - two pipped but never zipped, two zipped but...

Ditto.

I really wish I could clone myself or invent the 48 hour day. There just never seems to be enough time to get everything I want to do, done. Sigh...

Ah, the ClubHouse. I guess that's the problem...I haven't accessed that. I'm sure there is a link somewhere in my past emails but could you post it here or send in a PM so I don't have to go hunting it down? Thanks!

I'm thinking of creating a tri-fold brochure about the CL to hand out at shows and to customers. With the new Rees line birds being released at $129 a piece I anticipate another spurt of make a quick buck breeders breeding every CL looking bird they can for top dollar, including barred rocks...

I foresee a good showing of Cream Legbars at the VPBA show this year! I've got 32 eggs in the 'bator right now. Hoping for 85% or better hatch.

What are you feeding them???

Mine have been laying since late December. When were your girls hatched? Late summer usually means they won't start up until later in the Spring. Normal spring hatches sometimes start in the autumn then stop until Spring. I've had the best luck with early hatched hens, as in January...

Thanks Tony!

I really need to get one of those color charts. The Ameraucana club chart is nice, but I need one for olive eggs too. Where did you find yours?

I just weighed myself without holding a chicken then weighed myself holding the chicken and subtracted the difference. Not 100% accurate, but easier than trying to get a chicken to stand on a sale until I got a weight. Using the lamb/kid sling and hanging scale was a comedy of errors and not...

Picture of Heathcliff and two of his ladies. They are NOT liking the wet white stuff at all.