Cream Legbar Working Group: Standard of Perfection

[duluthralphie]

No eggs from you---we each bought 6 hens and 2 roosters. Hers started laying like crazy and she brought me eggs to hatch for her.

okay, that's what I meant, her's now, my old ones...

If she took them right away the Daddy would have been my White gene rooster.

The rooster you two got were extremely lucky, Had you not taken them they were headed to freezer camp. I can only have so many boys. The only good thing with that many boys is I have a lot of roosters to look at when picking breeders or needing one trait to "fix" something.

 

[Bantambird]

okay, that's what I meant, her's now, my old ones...

If she took them right away the Daddy would have been my White gene rooster.

The rooster you two got were extremely lucky, Had you not taken them they were headed to freezer camp. I can only have so many boys. The only good thing with that many boys is I have a lot of roosters to look at when picking breeders or needing one trait to "fix" something.

Speaking of roosters, Eli and his big haired brother are doing alright. Eli is a real chatterbox! TBH I would have thought roosters from slightly colder locales would have been smarter about the weather. Not so much. Big hair ended up freezing off a few toes this winter, and then the dummy must have been scratching in the hay right after his toetips came off. He got cheatgrass in there! It traveled up his leg, and of course there was a bumble around the grass...
We used Excede on him. The dose for chickens is so small, we used a TB syringe, but it does work, and it lasts longer per dose than other antibiotics. We had to keep doing him regularly until a bubble appeared on his leg, giving us something to open up and drain. I thought it was just a wierd infection, but once the vet started pulling out chunks of grass from inside his leg, it was an eye opener. He must have had 6 seed heads pulled out of there!
Of course his leg will never be the same, and if he wasn't valuable for his different genetics from mine(mine are all AB line, you have the C line) I might have considered culling.
So there it is. Besides his leg healing to be a bit bigger than the other leg, he looks pretty handsome.

 

[duluthralphie]

Cool.. Glad you saved him..

What is excede I never heard of it is it prescription only?

You have such an advantage on Vet access! I envy you. I have been forced to buy scours boluses and break them in small chunks for the occasional antibiotic I might need. Luckily my Doctor is a chicken guy and he tells me the way to get things that are still over the counter with some antibiotics,,,,

oh and BTW I did put in for that director spot,so we will se if I get it. Thanks for the encouragement.

 

[Bantambird]

Yay! I know you will do well, Ralphie. With the numbers you put out, it would be great to have you on the board. Yeah, Exede is a horse/cow injectable antibiotic. It is intramuscular so we just stuck him in the breast. I think by weight he got about 0.1 or 0.2 mL total, every three days. You don't want to eat them for a while though...

 

[duluthralphie]

WOW, I just looked up excede online...I would need to see if my son what let me put my Grandson up for collateral to buy a bottle....... If I could find a vet that would write it for free,,,, If the vet wants pay I would need to borrow a granddaughter too.

 

[Bantambird]

WOW, I just looked up excede online...I would need to see if my son what let me put my Grandson up for collateral to buy a bottle....... If I could find a vet that would write it for free,,,, If the vet wants pay I would need to borrow a granddaughter too.

You couldn't use a whole bottle if you tried Ralphie, lol, 0.2 mL is really tiny. It's by prescription only, you just have to convince a horseman or a veterinarian to allow you to use it.
Mom laughed at your analogy.

 

[duluthralphie]

Here is a picture of one of my Creams for this year.

I worked hard to get rid of the creole, I think I did it.

The barring is better than the picture shows...

A little red on the lobes of this one, but I can live with that to be free of the creole.

 

[HaplessRunner]

Cream Legbar Club

Summer Membership Meeting


Hi everyone! Reminding you of the meeting Saturday morning for all full members, 12:00 noon EDT, 11:00 AM CDT, 10:00 AM MDT, and 9:00 AM PDT depending on your time zones! Please find the links and other pertinent information below!

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[HaplessRunner]

Cream Legbar Club Meeting

July 15, 2017

Agenda:

· Treasurer’s Report – Kestlyn Penley

· Introduction of Central Region Director – Myron Wilson

· 2016 Cream Legbar Club Online, Virtual Show – Tony Markley

· Road to APA – Kestlyn Penley

· Pre-Qualifier Shows Planned for 2017

• Eastern Region – Sarah Evenson Merranko
• Southern Region – Curtis Hale
• Central Region – Myron Wilson
• Western Region – Jane Johnson

· SOP Presentation and Comments – Kestlyn Penley

· Other Business

• New Website and Solicitation of Comments – Jane Johnson
• Newsletter, Combined Spring and Summer Issues – Kimberly Cook

· Recommendations from the Membership

 

[HaplessRunner]

Third Annual Cream Legbar Club Online, Virtual Show

Rules for the Show:

1. Pictures of the entry birds should be unobstructed, close up views with profile views preferred.
2. Pictures should be visually appealing and taken by you.
3. Pictures must be of living birds.
4. Pictures must have been taken within two months of the show start and end date, November 1 - December 22, 2017. Although not a requirement for this show, a digital date on the picture is helpful.
5. Pictures of birds must be posted on the Cream Legbar Club Third Annual Online, Virtual Show Facebook event page.
6. Entries will be accepted from November 1, 2017 – December 22, 2017.

Categories of Entries:

1. Varieties of Entrants: Cream Legbars, Golden Crele Legbars, and White Legbars
2. Entrants must be labeled as: Cocks, Hens, Cockerels, or Pullets

Judging and Results:

1. The best and reserve cock, hen, cockerel, and pullet for each variety will be determined.
2. The best and reserve variety will be determined from the best cock, hen, cockerel, and pullet within that variety.
3. The best and reserve in show will be determined from the best in variety champions.
4. The current Revision 4 of the draft Standard of Perfection (SOP) for the cream legbar will be used for judging. This draft SOP will also use the current drafts for the golden crele and white legbars in combined SOP format.
5. The judging will be done by an APA registered/licensed poultry judge (if available).

Awards:

1. The Best in Show and Reserve in Show winners will receive a one year paid membership to the Cream Legbar Club
2. Only one award membership will be granted per entrant.

Recommendations:

1. When adding your entry to the Facebook event page, please ensure that you title your entry with the variety and label of the bird to be entered.

Examples: Cream Legbar Cock; White Legbar Hen; Golden Crele Legbar Cockerel; Cream Legbar Pullet, etc.

This will greatly facilitate judging of the bird and eliminate any confusion of the variety that you believe the bird to be.

2. The judging will be done by an APA registered/licensed poultry judge (if available). So do your best to present your birds in show condition. If this were a live show, the judge would examine and pick up the bird. As such, the judge would expect to find birds freshly bathed and in peak condition.

3. Show birds have attitude!! They unfailingly have a sense of who they are and this message comes across loudly in the pictures of the bird. This, too, is a point of judging birds in a show. How does the chicken carry himself or herself in presenting themselves to other chickens and people? Capturing this attitude in a picture can make all the difference especially since the APA judge is unable to pick the bird up or observe the bird’s behavior in an online show.

4. Pay attention to lighting and setting. An artist will always ask “What is the light doing to the colors?” Your birds will show better in good lighting rather than a dark corner.

5. Chickens do not naturally pose for pictures! Try to take a lot of pictures and choose the one that best shows your bird. Ideally, you would like to see a relaxed inquisitive bird in the picture rather than a frightened bird chased into a corner.

As always, we wish everyone the best of luck in this online show. We are really looking forward to the great pictures of your birds and the results of the great work that you are doing to support the legbar breed and its varieties!
FINAL NOTE: As noted in the judging section, we will use the current draft Revision 4 of the Cream Legbar SOP as posted on the club website. This revision 4 will be presented in a combined SOP format with the Golden Crele Legbar and White Legbar draft SOPs. We are seeking the APA judge’s and your comments particularly on the Golden Crele Legbar SOP. All legbar varieties use the same shape and physical structure of the male and female, this will be evident as you peruse the draft Combined SOP.