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  1. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    Thanks for the fast response! I'd planned to start buying some kale for the chickens, I've heard they love it. Unfortunately, my girl also has waaaaay too much color, and what I would consider to be a fairly prominent crest. Her tail isn't usually as high as it is in this picture. Any...
  2. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    I love seeing all the gorgeous birds. I got a new legbar rooster this week. He was an early 2012 greenfire chick. It seems like I heard their newer birds have better coloring, and their 2011-early 2012 have too much orange/salmon, correct? Judging by my birds, I think it's that way. I wanted...
  3. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    I couldn't find any good pictures of a welbar, so I couldn't say. I think these girls are going to end up looking mostly black, but with some rusty highlights in the feathers. I know it's really tricky to tell how a chicken will look at this age, but I took a close up picture of one of my...
  4. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    Woohoo! A sex linked olive egger (probably)! That's really quite exciting.
  5. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    So you think this was just a funny coincidence? I know that the mother is a legbar, and I know that the father was a french black copper marans. I don't have any barred chickens at all, unless you count the barred ancestors in my legbar. She doesn't look at all like a silver, I don't think. I...
  6. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    That study is really interesting! It seems like when I've hatched eggs from my yard, I tend to have a higher hen ratio. My boys are fairly sweet, and there's 3 roosters for 12ish hens. It'd be nice to find a hormone free, kind way to influence hatching so that there were more hens. I tried...
  7. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    Thanks for posting that site. It definitely looks like my pullet is wrong. She is a Greenfire, and has that gold they don't like. I already knew my cockerel was "different" because he's pure white. I'm trying to get worked up about it, but I just can't. Frankly, the roosters on that page that...
  8. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    Phage, initially I thought your white legbar was a cockerel, but when I got looking back at mine from approximately the same age, he was a LOT more red in the comb than yours, so I'll agree with everyone else and say that it's a girl. Your legbar roosters are so gorgeous it makes me a little...
  9. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    Wow, that's awesome to get that kind of sexing numbers! Color me jealous. Yeah, Indy definitely does look like she's wearing a bad toupee. I've giggled over it.
  10. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    Woohoo! Congrats on the laying hens, and congrats on the pullets!!! For fun, I thought I'd post pictures of my two legbars. Here's Indy (short for Indiana). She's getting so big and pretty. I have no idea when to expect eggs from her because I don't remember exactly when she was hatched...
  11. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    Sheriff, I am so sorry for your loss of your rooster. That is just heartbreaking. I think you did the kind thing.
  12. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    Omigosh, crowing already? I have a gorgeous white boy who is 3.5 months old and he's not crowing yet.
  13. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    I'm a realtor, and I've had several clients who have told me that they want a house where they can have chickens, so I've gotten very, very familiar with different cities' chicken ordinances. I don't even bat an eyelash if someone says that to me. Of course, I am a little eccentric, and seem to...
  14. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    Oh, gorgeous egg colors. COngratulations! I don't use Pantone for egg color, but I think that's a brilliant idea. RunswithChicken, darling chicks, congrats. Hope you get more pullets in your next batch.
  15. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    She ended up being a splash. Here's a picture of her from a couple days ago.
  16. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    cwalden, that sucks about her stealing your photos. I'm glad she took them down, but I'd still be awfully ticked. That photoshop digital thing is a cool idea, if I did more professional work, I'd definitely do it. At this point for me, I just watermark my pictures in such a way as to make it...
  17. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    With your white legbar project, how have you been breeding them? Only white to white? Or do you mix a white with a regular? If the latter, how many come out looking white? I'm curious because I have a white cockerel and a traditional, crested pullet and I'm curious what combinations I could...
  18. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    Aw, bummer that you don't get to take it home. So, would you all guess this chick is male or female?
  19. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    Oh, he absolutely is. That was never a question in my mind. In fact, when I talked to the friend who gave him to me, it turns out this little guy is one of your babies! She'd bought hatching eggs from you, and he's one of the offspring. I guess two hatched out this way, but the other ended up dying.
  20. Sphinx

    The Legbar Thread!

    Ok, here's Jones, my white cream legbar.
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