Cream crested legbar cockerel

[ScottyGill]

just wanted to ask if anyone looking at these posts would know if my cockerel has the right markings. He’s 15 weeks old

 

[SurferchickinSB]

just wanted to ask if anyone looking at these posts would know if my cockerel has the right markings. He’s 15 weeks old

I don’t know the breed, but he is very beautiful to me.

 

[ScottyGill]

I don’t know the breed, but he is very beautiful to me.

Isn’t he! I have found some other photos and I may be biased but he is more beautiful than others I have seen.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

He looks about right. Most of the google pics I see, they have bigger combs, but that may come later.

 

[Acre4Me]

There are forums on BYC for breeds and SOP. Post in one of those areas to get people more familiar with the breed to comment.

 

[ScottyGill]

There are forums on BYC for breeds and SOP. Post in one of those areas to get people more familiar with the breed to comment.

I don’t know where that is, I was looking, I thought this was the what breed is this therefore people reading it would know about breeds

 

[Acre4Me]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...bar-show-quality.1335629/page-2#post-21868427

Here is a recent thread in the SOP forum. But, I think there are other threads on CCL.

 

[ScottyGill]

Thanks I’ve popped a couple of photos there. Appreciate your help

 

[GaryDean26]

just wanted to ask if anyone looking at these posts would know if my cockerel has the right markings. He’s 15 weeks old

ScottyGill,

The PCGB Standard for the Cream Legbars can been seen HERE.

There are lots of things that are specified in the standard. to be "right" you have to meet them all. My mentor when I started breeding Cream Legbars had been breeding Legbars for over six years and every year should pull out this standard and read every section one by one to see if her birds did or did not meet each point described. After 6 years and hundreds of Cream Legbars she said that she had never seen a single legbar that meet all the requirements and was convinced that she never would.

So...this is a less of a right markings, wrong markings thing as it is how close you can get to the standard thing. If you can get more than 50% correct you have a decent example of the breed. If you can get more than 75% right then you have a Champion bird.

If you have any questions as to whether your bird does or doesn't meet the description in the standard yet us know.

 

[ScottyGill]

ScottyGill,

The PCGB Standard for the Cream Legbars can been seen HERE.

There are lots of things that are specified in the standard. to be "right" you have to meet them all. My mentor when I started breeding Cream Legbars had been breeding Legbars for over six years and every year should pull out this standard and read every section one by one to see if her birds did or did not meet each point described. After 6 years and hundreds of Cream Legbars she said that she had never seen a single legbar that meet all the requirements and was convinced that she never would.

So...this is a less of a right markings, wrong markings thing as it is how close you can get to the standard thing. If you can get more than 50% correct you have a decent example of the breed. If you can get more than 75% right then you have a Champion bird.

If you have any questions as to whether your bird does or doesn't meet the description in the standard yet us know.

Thank you. Having read it I think he has too much copper markings, his plume is too big, his comb is floppy and looks like it is diagonal. He is completely imperfect I suspect but I love him. Is he a ‘decent’ example?