Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[Weirdness555]

Cream Legbar x ? What color chicken would darken a CL like this?
Young male, sold shortly after picture was taken.

A welsummer or something? I'm trying to think of colourful roosters...

 

[CibolaChooks]

I have some update pics of my Pullets. CLxSLC. They are 15 weeks old.

I really like this cross. Nice job on the pictures. When i look at the picture of the one with the black tips on her chest it makes me wonder about our pure ccl that get black tips. A laced bird bred to a non laced bird will give you that incomplete lacing until the next generation when u breed back to a laced bird. It makes me wonder why incomplete lacing looks so much like the barring issues which is what the black tips are said to be on the pure ccl. I wonder if your pic is showing incomplete lacing or the barring. after looking at it more it looks like the wings have complete lacing and the chest is showing barring issues

 

[CibolaChooks]

I purchased CCL directly from GFF and about 4 out of 15 of the females head faint head spots.  All of the ones that had head spots grew up to have very nice silver crests.  The ones without the head spots grew up to have black or brown crests, with the exception of 2 of them that don't have any crests at all.  The 2 without the crests are the most gentle pullets.  The silver crests tend to be flighty, noisy, and very unfriendly.

I am interested in knowing if the birds in question of this conversation grow up to have the same look and temper as the ones I have.  Please keep me informed as they grow.

I think this is very interesting that the females with the head spot had the correct colored crest. Maybe this is why hotspot is included for females in the British Sop

 

[CibolaChooks]

An update. The cross with my barred cochin is confirmed that the males have a head spot and females dont. Their a Sex link ohhh yeah

 

[normanack]

Chicken picken, Hapless Runner, Stake, Phage -- those are all beautiful birds!

 

[HaplessRunner]

Chicken picken, Hapless Runner, Stake, Phage -- those are all beautiful birds!

Thank you! There are many grow out pictures to come. Just finding the time and dealing with colder weather are the issues.

 

[familypendragon]

Here is my other boy. I wonder if a cross with him would come out the same as the first one?? Or should I cross these CCL/GLW pullets back with this one?

My dogs killed this rooster and my $90 beautiful Splash Isbar hen at POL that I JUST bought. They have found new homes. That was just the last straw.

 

[chicken pickin]

My dogs killed this rooster

and my $90 beautiful Splash Isbar hen at POL that I JUST bought. They have found new homes. That was just the last straw.

Oh wow. So sorry to hear you lost two great chickens. Thats just awful. I would be beyond upset.

 

[normanack]

Oh, man. I'm so sorry. Sending hugs through the internet.

 

[HaplessRunner]

My dogs killed this rooster

and my $90 beautiful Splash Isbar hen at POL that I JUST bought. They have found new homes. That was just the last straw.

My condolences. I would be way beyond upset with that situation. You are very kind in rehoming the dogs.

I came very close to having to shoot two dogs that belonged to a distant neighbor. I looked out my back slider and saw these two 100+ pound dogs desperately trying to get through my electric netting to my chickens. Fortunately, when I came out the door one left. I convinced the other to come to me whereupon I read the dog tags and telephone numbers.. It turned out that the owners were out of the country and a house/dog sitter had lost control of them. I would truly hate to harm another animal needlessly but I cannot allow another animal to harm my animals and investments.