Cream leg bar not laying?

[Raul Herrera]

I have two cream Legbar hens. When they started laying eggs, it would only be green so assumed they both layed green, but then I eventually got a blue, so maybe one of them layed blue, but then after two blue eggs, I haven't gotten blue again. I'm not sure if they both lay green or the blue egg layer doesn't lay eggs.

 

[BoundlessLove]

Cream Legbar hens can lay blue, green, or cream colored eggs.
Did you order these CLs from a hatchery or pick them up from a TSC or farm store?

 

[Raul Herrera]

Cream Legbar hens can lay blue, green, or cream colored eggs.
Did you order these CLs from a hatchery or pick them up from a TSC or farm store?

From a local feed store, I stopped buying from tractor supply because chicks are always unhealthy from them.

 

[BoundlessLove]

I have an older CL hen from TSC and she lays a cream colored egg. Since she is hatchery quality, it does not bother me.
My new flock of CLs were eggs from a breeder.
They lay blue eggs.
I’d say the farm store sells hatchery quality CLs.

 

[2pointers]

I have one and her egg is a light bluish green. She's in her second year of laying and she's a cute chicken, but I would probably not buy another of this breed, although it is probably just mine that is the problem. We bought 5 chicks in April 2023 and all except the cream legged bar were laying by October. She finally laid her first egg in February of 2024. We are lucky to get 2-3 eggs per month from her and she starts late after winter and stops way before the others. Seems like we're only getting 1-2 a month now and she's only a little over 2 years old. All my others are laying normal. She's not egg bound or anything--she's just a moocher.

 

[SamLockwood]

Blue eggs are a shell color. Brown eggs are actually a white shell with a brown pigment on them. To get a green egg it's a blue shell with the brown pigment on them, so depending on a variety of factors the egg color can range from green to blue depending on how much "ink" she has left.

As far as your question goes it depends on age and what you're feeding them. You tend to get the most irregularities when they first start laying: you'll get different colors, weird-shaped eggs, etc. If they start to molt they'll stop laying until they're done molting. Cream legbars aren't a production breed, so this time of year you're only likely to get an egg every other day from each hen, so if they're in "full swing" you'll see an egg every day most days with a pair of hens, and sometimes you'll either get none or two eggs in one day.