Cream Legbar Hybrid Thread

[jerryse]

I would love anyone's comments on methods get the more saturated "deep" blue in general...

- Ant Farm

I have been breeding blue egg layers for 40 + years and don't have the answer . Good luck

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Everyone needs a "grail quest", right?

- Ant Farm

 

[luckysaysgo]

I would love anyone's comments on methods get the more saturated "deep" blue in general...

me too..I have 4 different blue layer breeds and none are saturated like a few pics I've seen on here...I am leaning towards believing some people like photo shop.

- Ant Farm 

 

[kris86AR]

I was given a hen and rooster cream legbar. Do they look cross or pure? Will get more pics this evening

 

[RobG7aChattTN]

I was given a hen and rooster cream legbar. Do they look cross or pure? Will get more pics this evening

They probably are. My first birds had that much color. My hens had a lot more light feathers around their necks for over two years but in their most recent molt they turned dark like this. My old roo was cream for almost two years but then got quite yellow. He molted cream again and it darkened a bit fairly quickly. They are probably just from that first Greenfire Line.

 

[kris86AR]

Eggs are green. I personally like them but wondering if they are quality enough to hatch.

 

[RobG7aChattTN]

I think the Proposed SOP includes both blue and green eggs...just not olive. Those Rees line birds lay green eggs. Lately I have a bird laying green eggs but this is new. I've had a few folks say in wet weather they sometimes get green eggs and it has been raining a lot. Give it a week or so and see what color the eggs are. They might not be show birds but if you want to breed them for back yard layers then why not?

 

[kris86AR]

Ok thanks!!!

 

[jerryse]

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3/1/16 at 11:16am​

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My auto sexing EE . Chicks hatched today . Can be sexed at hatch . Top 2 chicks male bottom 3 female . I have eggs on the 24 hour auction thread if anyone is interested .
There is Legbar in the mix .

 

[chickencrazy21]

Question. I have bought crested cream leg bars from 3 diffrent people. I had one who was suposted to already be laying die on me within two weeks and mever laid an egg. The guy i got her from was like sorry. I often enjoy lighting $80 on fire. He didnt even offer me a partial refund or a replacement bird. I got a second one I got january 9th. She was about 3 months old. Today i went up she too was suddenly dead. She did have the funny dark colored poo stuck to her bottom like she had just went potty and died. It hasnt been cold latly here in cali. Only in the 50s at night. I do have a roo and female chicks that are babies there Are from a december hatch from another person. They are doing good. What would cause them to just up and die? Are they not as hearty of a burd or what? Now when my roo is older i have to find an adult one. I wanted to try my hand at breeding but nothing grand scale. For me to keep and to give some to my friend who is starting her own flock soonish.