Cream Legbars - crests and egg color

rottlady

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Mar 20, 2016
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I am still new to the breed. My chicks are only weeks old. But I have been talking to LOTS of people who raise this breed.

I got the breed because I love the bouffant crests and the round large blue eggs

I am finding though that not all Cream Legbars have either of those things and that the Rees Cream Legbars tend to actually have egg shaped smaller green eggs

I am also hearing from breeders that the earlier imports A-C line birds, had the rounder bluest eggs and that the best crests were C line birds.

What are you all seeing in your birds from the assorted lines?


This is the type of crest that brought me to the breed

a C line GFF


early lines but unsure which

and this is a BYC member with large round bluish eggs

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/712383/lightbox/post/13476687/id/6345606
 
I am surprised no comments

Had a lady yesterday who is local post some Legbar chicks and I asked her to send me picks of the eggs and parents. She said hens were laying a round very blue egg. Photos show egg shaped very green egg and hen had just a bit of a swept back crest so I told her was not interested
 
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mine are from group A and B. Most of them are older.and yes that top one did get a bit frostbit. She went outside on a -30 day when it was windy. Silly girl!
 
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Yes. Sometimes I have to candle just to know which is the big end when setting eggs! There are one or two that lay a pale blue green egg with off-white spots. Everyone else lays pale blue round eggs.
 

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