CREAM LEGBAR - Pullet or Cockerel

[junebuggena]

A big complaint a lot of people have about Legbars is that they are most commonly, green layers, not blue layers. Those who are expecting sky blue eggs get very upset and disappointed when their Legbar starts turning out teal or light green eggs.

 

[Southpaw Power]

A big complaint a lot of people have about Legbars is that they are most commonly, green layers, not blue layers. Those who are expecting sky blue eggs get very upset and disappointed when their Legbar starts turning out teal or light green eggs.

Hmm, something to think about prior to getting my next babies in April 2017. My first idea about the chickens I get were due to the color of eggs they laid. I originally got a Super Blue egg layer for the blue eggs. My beautiful Bluebell came out to be my handsome Blueballs. Unfortunately, I can not have roosters where I live. Which works for me because I only want the eggs. My April shipment is due to I'm getting my free replacement chicks for the two who came out to be cockerels but I paid for pullets. Thank goodness, they have a 95% sexing guarantee and a 100% policy of free replacement if they are 18 weeks or younger. When it came to choosing the other two pullets to ride with them (for my area, I have a 4 minimum shipping) the Super Blue wasn't really available and thought maybe the Legbar would give me the blue eggs I wanted in my basket. My Liberty Ameraucana gives me beautiful greenish/mint green eggs and in April I have the replacement Olive Egger coming. So I kind of have plenty of green hopefully in two different shades of green. With paying $32.00 for my Legbar, I would kind of expect them to be more on the blue side no matter what shade of blue they are.

The second factor I have about what type of chickens I wanted in my first starter flock was I wanted them all to look different from each other and to not have any duplicates in breeds. That's for the first 10 hens at least which is suppose to be my limit in the area I live. Then after, it will be a matter of personalities, temperaments, quantity and quality of eggs.

My long time dream is to have at least one of each somewhere on even just an acre of land. I also have a great green thumb growing a big garden. I started to learn how to can what I'm growing and how to use the seeds from the last years garden to produce the new years garden. I already been taking care of my own "honey do" list even when I had a husband (just thought I throw that in there). I also sew clothes, make quilts, crochet etc. to the point I get ribbons in the County Fair.

Back to the subject - I thank you very much for your thoughts which is a real eye opener since as of today when I woke up, I still live where I live where limitations are what they are.

Someday though, hopefully sooner than later.

But not when I'm too

 

[dekel18042]

A big complaint a lot of people have about Legbars is that they are most commonly, green layers, not blue layers. Those who are expecting sky blue eggs get very upset and disappointed when their Legbar starts turning out teal or light green eggs.

X2. Most of the cream legbar eggs I've seen have been bluish green, not totally blue. My best blue layers now are some EE's I bred from EE's I got from My Pet Chicken. I bred my own super blue egg layers which are just starting to lay and all their eggs are identical in color. A pale robin's egg blue, very pretty, definitely blue, no green at all. I have to make some more of them.......
I wanted to add my cream legbar rooster made wonderful and varied olive eggers when bred with different breeds of hens.

 

[mandelyn]

I bought Greenfire line Legbars and they laid true blue eggs, I found them to be top notch layers of large eggs for the 14 months I had them. We recently got back into chickens again after moving to our new spot in the country, I had to sell them when we first moved. That group I had hatched myself from locally sourced eggs, I knew going into it what color they would be!

Really liked them though. They were a little flighty compared to the more docile layer breeds. Excellent free rangers. I'm definitely hatching another batch of them. I skipped them on this Spring's Greenfire order, hoping to find them again locally.

 

[MelissaMallard]

I have a cream legbar that was very much a pullet chick... but now I'm starting to question her... I'm new to the breed, she looks like a pullet (she's a little over 2 months) but acts like a roo. She even crows, sorta... not well, but she flaps, yells and it resembles a crow. I also have read some hens crow. I've also had a hermaphrodite goat before, so anything can happen. Maybe I can get some second opinions on her? She's the one with the bright colored legs. The other is an F4 olive-egger, and very girly (thank goodness).

 

[Gray Farms]

I have a cream legbar that was very much a pullet chick... but now I'm starting to question her... I'm new to the breed, she looks like a pullet (she's a little over 2 months) but acts like a roo. She even crows, sorta... not well, but she flaps, yells and it resembles a crow. I also have read some hens crow. I've also had a hermaphrodite goat before, so anything can happen. Maybe I can get some second opinions on her? She's the one with the bright colored legs. The other is an F4 olive-egger, and very girly (thank goodness).
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That's a cockerel. And not a pure Legbar, color is way off.