Cream Legbar Working Group: Standard of Perfection

[Strange Hatter Farms]

https://greenfirefarms.com/cream_legbar.html
the 'C' line would be under production legbars. They do have the exhibition legbars. It's all personal preference to some, however. These are the place where legbars were imported to the US, so all legbars eventually came from here.

Thank you so much for your help!

 

[nicalandia]

I thought I replied but I guess bad connection. Sorry about that. I really appreciate your expertise. I’m really glad I have a decent start to my breeding program. I bought some eggs from a farm during the summer thinking they would lay blue eggs, because I wanted some blue, but my one and only hen laid her first egg and it looks to be green. I’ll have to look for blue in the spring I suppose.

You are okay, the SOP calls for blue or green eggs(even Olive, but I have never heard the term minty green)

The breed standard is as follows:
Origin: British

Classification: Light

Egg Colour: Blue, Green or Olive

General Characteristics:

Male

Carriage : Very sprightly and alert, with no suggestion of stiltiness.

Type: Body wedge shaped, wide at the shoulders and narrowing slightly to root of tail. Back long, flat and sloping slightly to the tail. Breast prominent, and breast bone straight. Wings large, carried tightly and well tucked up. Tail moderately full at an angle of 45 degrees from the line of the back.

Head: Fine. Beak stout, point clear of the front of the comb. Eyes prominent. Comb single, perfectly straight and erect, large but not overgrown, deeply and evenly serrated (5 to 7 spikes broad at the base), extending well beyond back of the head and following, without touching, the line of the head, free from ‘thumb marks’ or side spikes. Face smooth. Ear-lobes well developed, pendent, smooth and free from folds, equally matched in size and shape. Wattles long and thin.

Neck: Long and profusely covered with feathers.

Legs and Feet: Legs moderately long. Shanks strong, round and free of feathers. Flat shins objectionable. Toes, four, long, straight and well spread.

Plumage: Of silky texture, free from coarse or excessive feather.

Handling: Firm with abundance of muscle.

Female

The general characteristics are similar to those of the male, allowing for the natural sexual differences, except that the comb may be erect or falling gracefully over either side of the face without obstructing the eyesight, and the tail should be carried closely and not at such a high angle.

Male: Neck hackles cream, sparsely barred. Saddle hackles cream, barred with dark grey, tipped with cream. Back and shoulders cream with dark grey barring, some chestnut permissible. Wings, primaries dark grey, faintly barred, some white permissible; secondaries dark grey more clearly marked; coverts grey barred, tips cream, some chestnut smudges permissible. Breast evenly barred dark grey, well defined outline. Tail evenly barred grey, sickles being paler, some whit feather permissible. Crest cream and grey, some chestnut permissible.

Female: Neck hackles cream, softly barred grey. Breast salmon, well defined in outline. Body silver grey, with rather indistinct broad soft barring. Wings, primaries grey-peppered; secondaries very faintly barred; coverts silver grey. Tail silver grey, faintly barred. Crest cream and grey, some chestnut permissible.

In both sexes: Beak yellow. Eyes orange or red. Comb, face, and wattles red. Ear-lobes pure opaque, white or cream, slight pink markings not unduly to handicap an otherwise good male. Legs and feet yellow.

Weights
Male 2.70-3.40kg (6-7lb)
Female 2-2.70kg (4-6lb)

Serious defects:
Male's comb twisted or falling over, Ear-lobes wholly red. Any white in face. Legs other than orange, yellow or light willow. Squirrel tail.

Disqualifications:
Side sprigs on comb. Eye pupil other than round and clearly defined. Crooked breast. Wry tail. Any bodily deformity.

Scale of points:
Type 30
Colour 20
Head 20
Legs 10
Condition 10
Weight 10
100

 

[Bantambird]

You are okay, the SOP calls for blue or green eggs(even Olive, but I have never heard the term minty green)

It's that blue with a green tint. When you think of a light mint green in, say, art.

chickens are art!

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

Yes, green eggs are entirely within standard for Legbars! Completely! Green eggs require the blue egg gene, so all Legbars should be pure for the blue egg gene, but that may ultimately express as a green egg depending on what other egg color genetics are at play in the line.

 

[Bantambird]

 

[Bantambird]

 

[Gigachad poultry]

Hi

I'm new to this thread, but I have to legbar creams. One of them has a crest and her name is Raya, her sister doesn't have a crest and her name is Pebbles. Here are some photos, are they breed standard? They are really small for being 8 months old.

 

[Gigachad poultry]

I actually made an article on Crested Cream Legbars! I will put the link below
https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/crested-cream-legbar-breed-overview.78713/

 

[Bantambird]

Hi View attachment 3606901I'm new to this thread, but I have to legbar creams. One of them has a crest and her name is Raya, her sister doesn't have a crest and her name is Pebbles. Here are some photos, are they breed standard? They are really small for being 8 months old.

if they don't have a crest, they aren't standard, otherwise they look like they are legbars. The breeder may have diluted cresting to get straighter combs, a tricky task, but if you take out the crest, they are no longer standard. Legbars aren't a very large breed. They carry a lot of traits from leghorns, their main progenitor breed, including size. The one with a crest has a very small crest, she may have only one cresting gene herself.

 

[Bantambird]

This guy's shape is looking soooo gooooood