- Sep 16, 2011
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Hello,
I have 2 cream legbar and 1 barred plymouth rock pullets that will be 4 months old around July 1st. I was surprised to get an unquestionable squat from one of the creamed legbars today. I thought cream legbars were a breed that started laying a little later and had assumed my BPR would lay first. What do you guys think?
I have also found it very curious that despite hatching within a couple days of each other, the two cream legbars have grown and matured at vastly different rates. The one who squatted today has not only grown physically faster, but has very pretty plumage and large red wattles and she has looked this way for weeks. The color on her breast developed a couple months ago. The other still looks like a gangly, rough youngster with small, pale wattles and immature plummage. In fact, she's been a solid black color until pretty recently and her breast has only recently started to develop color. See photos.
The 'younger' one, Nugget, is quite shy so I don't have good a good individual photo of her. She's the one in the far back:
These two photos are of the very not-shy Omelette
Top one is from today just after squatting, the other is from about a week ago:
I guess I'm just curious as to how this can be? They aren't just days behind eachother in development, they are weeks and months. And I am certain they hatched within days of each other.
I appreciate your thoughts!
-K
I have 2 cream legbar and 1 barred plymouth rock pullets that will be 4 months old around July 1st. I was surprised to get an unquestionable squat from one of the creamed legbars today. I thought cream legbars were a breed that started laying a little later and had assumed my BPR would lay first. What do you guys think?
I have also found it very curious that despite hatching within a couple days of each other, the two cream legbars have grown and matured at vastly different rates. The one who squatted today has not only grown physically faster, but has very pretty plumage and large red wattles and she has looked this way for weeks. The color on her breast developed a couple months ago. The other still looks like a gangly, rough youngster with small, pale wattles and immature plummage. In fact, she's been a solid black color until pretty recently and her breast has only recently started to develop color. See photos.
The 'younger' one, Nugget, is quite shy so I don't have good a good individual photo of her. She's the one in the far back:
These two photos are of the very not-shy Omelette
Top one is from today just after squatting, the other is from about a week ago:I guess I'm just curious as to how this can be? They aren't just days behind eachother in development, they are weeks and months. And I am certain they hatched within days of each other.
I appreciate your thoughts!
-K
