Cream Legbar Pictures

[enola]

........... Me too

 

[ChicKat]

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ho ho -- we should start a new thread about - transplants and the effects of Climate on our flocks - where I am now is about 10-degrees cooler than where I have been for the past 10-years.... Cream Legbars -- can get frost bite in the cold -- Yep we got that here...and I did a lot of midnight comb Vaseline trips last year in Dec. Jan - and the heat... seems the crest keeps the heat in -- but all my chooks suffer from the heat. Picture wearing a down jacket in 100-degrees...and we would croak --

 

[ChicKat]

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I put in a pop-up, adware blocker -- and it is so cool not to see all those adware videos---but I don't have the emoticons any longer or I would put up the 'funny post'' one. LOL

 

[Sylvester017]

Quote: We don't get freezing temps except for about one or maybe two weeks in winter here in SoCal. I made the mistake of using Vaseline on my White Leghorn's floppy comb and wattles. The greasy stuff gets in the feathers around the face and when she took dust baths the dirt clung to the greasy mess. After 6 months she still carried the ugly stains of that on her white feathers and until she moulted. Now I use Vitamin E oil in a soy/coconut oil base (Walmart $4) to swab the combs, wattles. The oil absorbs into the fleshy comb/wattles, the non-greasy oil protects like Vaseline, has health benefits, and doesn't grease up the hens. I even use the Vit E to massage the hens' legs/toes/nails once a month for health maintenance at roost time so the Vit E absorbs overnight and doesn't leave a messy grease on the surrounding belly feathers. My vet recommended it - either Vit A or Vit E oil - I chose to get the Vit E bottle from Walmart. I once tried the baby A&D Ointment but it has the same messy base as Vaseline so I never used it again.

 

[ChicKat]

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That is such good advice... Vaseline is so messy - and yeah, you are out there, it is freezing and windy and dark and you goop the vaseline on the comb and hope for the best... so oil is in the chicken section at w-mart right --- LOL I mean the health and beauty--- is it their house brand? It gets colder here. All those years I lived in So Cal from Thousand Oaks to Bell Gardens to Laguna Hills - then they changed the name to Aliso Viejo - then Oceanside, then Desert Hot Springs -- I never needed a coat (okay 1 time I needed a coat)--- so you get some frost where you are huh? Here the first time I saw this house at the end of Jan. there was a patch of snow on the roof.

 

[Sylvester017]

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The Walmart brand is labeled Spring Valley Skin Oil E 12,000 I.U. Moisturizer 2 fl.oz.(59 mL) this is right off the front label and costs approx. $4 in their vitamin/supplements section. My one bottle has lasted almost 2 years for 5 hens. I no longer have the Leghorns with floppy combs/wattles so only use the oil on leg massages for our remaining 3 hens. The vet said I could massage the oil right into the feathered legs/toes of the Silkies and on their little walnut combs and beaks - he said the vitamins A and E are very beneficial to the skin - makes MY hands smooth too after I massage the oil into the hens' feet! I use some on my Ameraucana's pea comb (my avatar) and I love that it doesn't stain or mess her muffy cheek feathers!

We are about a mile downhill from the San Gabriel Canyon Mountains and once every 10 years or so we actually get a sprinkling of snow on the ground but it quickly disappears in the morning sun. 32 F degrees hits us about one or two weeks in winter but enough to need the Vit E oil to treat the hens for the night. I just love that there's no dirt and mud sticking to a Vaseline mess on the hens' feathers when they dust-bathe the next morning.

 

[ChicKat]

Thanks for the specifics.... I am putting it on the shopping list -- because it really sounds like it solves the problem of goop that Vaseline causes. I remember the first time I did it -- and was in the coop --going: "Okay how much Vaseline goes on the comb -- BYC where are you now..."

Your vet sounds very cool......

It also sounds like you give those chickens the spa treatment.... Can I make an appointment for mine - and what are your rates? ;O)

Love your avatar..and I bet that your chickens are really healthy and well cared for. Lucky ducks -- I mean chooks.

 

[chicken pickin]

Updated pics of my CL flock

Some of the boys

24week old cockerel








18/19week old cockerel








2 10/11week old cockerels






Some of the girls

2 16week old pullets
















10/11week old pullet




8week old pullet

 

[ChicKat]

Wow -- I think your 24-week old is stellar...and your whole flock looks excellent!

 

[speedy2020]

It is nice block. I think this line is before Rees. There are 3-4 lines from GFF. My are much more chestnut and color variation all over. The eggs that I hatched from very decent size 2-2.45oz.