24+ Cream Legbar Hatching Eggs $100 Shipped

[BulldogsandChickens]

Beautiful Birds Gary! Thank you for posting photos and getting great information out there! I have only one Cream Legbar in my backyard flock but I cannot say enough good about the breed. Had I of known then what I know now, I would have stuck with just Legbars.

 

[Ted_Harrell]

Here I was trying to figure out what a Bulldog Sand chicken was then I realized it said Bulldogs and chickens. Made myself laugh on that one. love you avatar name by the way...

 

[BulldogsandChickens]

Here I was trying to figure out what a Bulldog Sand chicken was then I realized it said Bulldogs and chickens. Made myself laugh on that one. love you avatar name by the way...

Ha! Well that tickled me too having an expert trying to figure out a new chicken breed.
Very appropriate avatar name for me as I truly love bulldogs and chickens. Clearly I am a sucker for anything stubborn and curious. Be Well!

 

[Ted_Harrell]

You too sir...

 

[GaryDean26]

Thank you for your quick reply. I would think the cock in the cage wing carriage is correct? My two cock birds wing hang to the thigh, thought maybe a genetic trait. May not breed out?? TOM

There are breeds like the Japanese Bantams that call for the wings to point down. I don't know how form fits function on those breeds but for the Legbar all the other dual-purpose and heritage type breeds, I have worked with the wing carriage directly relate to the vigor of the bird. Creating a pure breed requires closing or limiting a gene pool and a lot of inbreeding. There is an inbreeding depression that results. If too much depression occurs you start to get weak birds that fail to thrive. Some of the early signs of inbreeding depressions are low body weight, missing toes nails/missing toes/curled toes, low fertility, low activity levels, etc. The wings are on the thing used in cockerels to watch for vigor. A strong healthy cockerel will hold his wings up high, tight and close to the body. A weak cockerel will allow his wings to hang loose and they will angle down. So...no, in the Legbars the wing angle is not going to be genetic. Cross a cockerel with low wings to an unrelated hen (i.e. like a Rhode Island Red or a Black Copper Marans) and all the offspring will have wings that are carried up tight and close to the body because they won't have any inbreeding in them. Breeding weak birds create weaker birds which is why everyone pays so much attention to the angle of the wings on the cockerels.

 

[Ted_Harrell]

For the record sir, I am not an expert yet, but I am working on it. I still make plenty of mistakes and I still learn from them. Good luck to all of you...

 

[VintageLilFarm]

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I have been working with Legbars since 2011. I am in Oklahoma. You can see more on my flock on my profile page on localHen.com

Are you still selling and shipping Legbar hatching eggs? Do your hens still produce blue like in your photo here? Thank you!

 

[GaryDean26]

We typically ship until the middle of June. Our best egg color was from 2016 to 2018. We could line up eggs from eight different hens and 6-7 of them would be identical in color with all of them a really good blue color. We used two new cocks in our breeding pens last year. I was happy to replace the cocks that we had been using from 2016 to 2018 because they had faults that I had wanted to get away from for a long time and the new breeders were going to allow us to do that. When the 2019 pullets started to lay last fall though we were getting pale eggs. We had seen pale eggs in a lot of the stock from 2012-2015. In 2015 we marked all the eggs that were a pale color and when they hatch we culled every cockerel from a pale egg. We kept the pullets and if they laid a pale egg we planned to not hatch from them. So...in 2016-2018 the pale eggs were gone as were the 2-3 different shades that we had seen by using 2-3 cockerels in the past (egg color always seemed to follow the cockerel and not the hens). So some of the pale eggs are back. Breeding chickens is always two steps forward one step backwards. We will get the egg color back though. We still have hens laying the good color and have a son out of the two cocks that we replaced that should help bring the color back.

Below is a photo of eggs that we shipped last week that arrived at there destination on Saturday. I marked the photo with the letter of the pen I think each egg came from. Our Pen A is made up of hens from 2015 to 2018 hatches and have are all well-saturated well-colored eggs. Pen B is made up of egg from 2019 pullets and is not as saturated as the pen A eggs. Pen C are from a Legbar from another breeder. They are not from my line. They are smaller and are almost yellow tint to them. I think the C pen eggs are fairly typical for what most people get. I feel our egg color is a lot better than most and look forward to working back to everyone on the property laying eggs the color of the pen A birds as we saw in all of our hatches for 3 years.

 

[Ted_Harrell]

Yes sir,I see what you mean about the yellow in the egg, it is easier to see with all of your A and B eggs there.

 

[VintageLilFarm]

Thanks so much for your answer. Your A eggs are exactly what I'm looking to add to my flock.

We typically ship until the middle of June. Our best egg color was from 2016 to 2018. We could line up eggs from eight different hens and 6-7 of them would be identical in color with all of them a really good blue color. We used two new cocks in our breeding pens last year. I was happy to replace the cocks that we had been using from 2016 to 2018 because they had faults that I had wanted to get away from for a long time and the new breeders were going to allow us to do that. When the 2019 pullets started to lay last fall though we were getting pale eggs. We had seen pale eggs in a lot of the stock from 2012-2015. In 2015 we marked all the eggs that were a pale color and when they hatch we culled every cockerel from a pale egg. We kept the pullets and if they laid a pale egg we planned to not hatch from them. So...in 2016-2018 the pale eggs were gone as were the 2-3 different shades that we had seen by using 2-3 cockerels in the past (egg color always seemed to follow the cockerel and not the hens). So some of the pale eggs are back. Breeding chickens is always two steps forward one step backwards. We will get the egg color back though. We still have hens laying the good color and have a son out of the two cocks that we replaced that should help bring the color back.

Below is a photo of eggs that we shipped last week that arrived at there destination on Saturday. I marked the photo with the letter of the pen I think each egg came from. Our Pen A is made up of hens from 2015 to 2018 hatches and have are all well-saturated well-colored eggs. Pen B is made up of egg from 2019 pullets and is not as saturated as the pen A eggs. Pen C are from a Legbar from another breeder. They are not from my line. They are smaller and are almost yellow tint to them. I think the C pen eggs are fairly typical for what most people get. I feel our egg color is a lot better than most and look forward to working back to everyone on the property laying eggs the color of the pen A birds as we saw in all of our hatches for 3 years.