Cream Legbar Working Group: Standard of Perfection

[graciesmum]

Handling isn't a problem, this is my favourite girl out of my hens, she sits on my arm and comes upto my shoulder for cuddles before bed lol

 

[NinetreesMom]

Hello There! I am new to breeding chickens, and decided that Crested Cream Legbars are the birds for me. The autosexing trait is a huge plus, and I want good free-rangers so the alertness of the breed appealed to me too. I want to develop good homesteading stock, so I will be selecting for egg production and bird size while staying within the breed standards (My girls will hopefully be showing them in 4-H someday!) So far I have had a dismal hatch rate from shipped eggs, but I have ended up with 3 chicks, all cockerels. 2 dark ones from one breeder, and a lighter one from a different breeder. I want to keep one of these guys as my founding rooster. From what I have been reading, as long as he is correct in other ways, the lighter one is the most desirable? Below is a pic...
I plan on growing out all 3 for awhile to see which meets standard the best. At what age can you typically tell with these guys?
Thank you in advance for you input. I am learning a lot about this breed, and hope to come up with some good birds. I am setting another 10 or so eggs on Monday from a third breeder, so hopefully next I will get some pullets!

 

[KPenley]

Looks like you're on the right track NinetreesMom! Best wishes for some pullets from your next hatch!

 

[CibolaChooks]

Hello There! I am new to breeding chickens, and decided that Crested Cream Legbars are the birds for me. The autosexing trait is a huge plus, and I want good free-rangers so the alertness of the breed appealed to me too. I want to develop good homesteading stock, so I will be selecting for egg production and bird size while staying within the breed standards (My girls will hopefully be showing them in 4-H someday!) So far I have had a dismal hatch rate from shipped eggs, but I have ended up with 3 chicks, all cockerels. 2 dark ones from one breeder, and a lighter one from a different breeder. I want to keep one of these guys as my founding rooster. From what I have been reading, as long as he is correct in other ways, the lighter one is the most desirable? Below is a pic...
I plan on growing out all 3 for awhile to see which meets standard the best. At what age can you typically tell with these guys?
Thank you in advance for you input. I am learning a lot about this breed, and hope to come up with some good birds. I am setting another 10 or so eggs on Monday from a third breeder, so hopefully next I will get some pullets!

the light one looks very very nice. Im not sure on the age at which you can tell for the roos. I will be keeping all my males well into their 4 month. until i see their fully mature combs and earlobes i wont decide on a male. .

 

[NinetreesMom]

Four months sounds a lot better than the 8 or 9 I was thinking of!

 

[Flaming Chicken]

Hello There! I am new to breeding chickens, and decided that Crested Cream Legbars are the birds for me. The autosexing trait is a huge plus, and I want good free-rangers so the alertness of the breed appealed to me too. I want to develop good homesteading stock, so I will be selecting for egg production and bird size while staying within the breed standards (My girls will hopefully be showing them in 4-H someday!) So far I have had a dismal hatch rate from shipped eggs, but I have ended up with 3 chicks, all cockerels. 2 dark ones from one breeder, and a lighter one from a different breeder. I want to keep one of these guys as my founding rooster. From what I have been reading, as long as he is correct in other ways, the lighter one is the most desirable? Below is a pic...
I plan on growing out all 3 for awhile to see which meets standard the best. At what age can you typically tell with these guys?
Thank you in advance for you input. I am learning a lot about this breed, and hope to come up with some good birds. I am setting another 10 or so eggs on Monday from a third breeder, so hopefully next I will get some pullets!

Hi There,

I live in Redmond not too far from you. I have 5 hens a laying right now, I have some chicks approx 3 weeks old and eggs coming from Texas in a couple of weeks. Your light colored cockerel looks interesting, hopefully he grows out nicely. Let me know if you need some local eggs to try for pullets.

 

[NinetreesMom]

Flaming Chicken;
Thank you very much for the offer. I just got some hatching eggs from another local breeder...Green fire stock from last year and this year. she has hatched a few of the light cockerels too. Hopefully I get some pullets out of these 9 eggs. I can't be that unlucky, right? If these don't work out for whatever reason, or I need some fresh blood, I may look you up!
Same goes for you...looks like I will have some extra cockerels, and hatching eggs in the future if you ever need some new blood lines locally!

 

[CibolaChooks]

Flaming Chicken;
Thank you very much for the offer. I just got some hatching eggs from another local breeder...Green fire stock from last year and this year. she has hatched a few of the light cockerels too. Hopefully I get some pullets out of these 9 eggs. I can't be that unlucky, right? If these don't work out for whatever reason, or I need some fresh blood, I may look you up!
Same goes for you...looks like I will have some extra cockerels, and hatching eggs in the future if you ever need some new blood lines locally!

i could use some fresh blood.

 

[walady944]

i could use some fresh blood.

I have babies from GFF so may have some new ones for you down the road. We will see how they do. One of my roos looks pretty nice. Have to see how he grows.

 

[Flaming Chicken]

i could use some fresh blood.

My 12 year old, thinks your post is pretty creepy. Lol. It seems like a bunch of us are going for genetic diversity, hopefully next year we will all have nice healthy stock with great color