10 Week Old Cream Legbar.. show quality?

[comish83]

You don't have to read all 300 pages in one sitting and to tell you the truth there are a lot of sections you can skip right over, but that thread is full of golden nuggets of information. When you finish it you will have a sence of accomplishment. So.. it could be a nice winter read.

In this first photo I am seeing a very washed out brest. The standard calls of a salmon brest and this is a grayish color with barely any orange color to it.

Here is a photo I took several years ago of one whos color I liked. This is more what you want for the breast color. Also note that this one has the correct red face. Yours is too young to show the red face, red comb, or red wattles yet. They face starts to redden up when the pullets get close to laying eggs. This one doesn't have well developed ear lobs yet but they should be solid white. That is something to watch for. if the earlobes show any red on them it is bad.

The color on the back should be an even grey color. with a clear contrast from the cream color of the hackle feathers on the neck. Yours is showing a lot of white spreading into the back.

Here is another photo that I took severl years ago of one of ours. She was not my favorite for color but I am not finding a lot of photos I can share right now. She does show the distinction between the cream hackles and the back color (although she is showing a crey grest and the standard is for a cream crest, she is showing yellow ear lobes that should be white, she has red showing on pasts of the ear lobe, and she doesn't have a salmon on the brest.)

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The crest color on yours match the cream colored hackles. That is correct, but again the colors seem to all run together.

Thank you so much for the detailed response. I am learning so much and loving it! It doesn’t shock me how “off” she is. I got her and another CL from Meyer and the other one is almost black with no creme.