Cream Legbar Working Group: Standard of Perfection

[KPenley]

Legs are supposed to be hairless. Can you take a pic Dahlisgrams? I mean, are we talking feathers on the hocks or shanks and toes?

 

[Dahlisgrams]

Legs are supposed to be hairless. Can you take a pic Dahlisgrams? I mean, are we talking feathers on the hocks or shanks and toes?

I was honestly a little shocked to see the stubs! They're on the shanks but not the toes. I'll get some photos today and post them here.

 

[Dahlisgrams]

Okay, here we go. This is the best photo I could get of the feather stubs on the CL cockerel, now 5 days old. I don't think they are on the toes, just the outside of the shanks. My camera was being very uncooperative and just about all of the photos are completely blurred!!!

Has anyone seen this in a Cream Legbar chick? I see stubs on the legs of 3 out of 4 from this hatch, though the photo depicts the most profuse of all. The pullet has only one stub on a single leg. I'll try to get better photos in sunlight tomorrow. Maybe that would help?

 

[KPenley]

hmmmm...did you hatch their parents as well? iow, did they have the same leg feathering? I know it's discouraging, but if feathers grow in there is something funky going on in the genetics department, and I would not breed them.

 

[babymakes6]

Does anyone else think this is the "stiltiness?"

 

[KPenley]

Maybe, but I think it's hard to see in a picture. Like maybe he was about to jump off the table or something...we don't know.

 

[Dahlisgrams]

hmmmm...did you hatch their parents as well? iow, did they have the same leg feathering? I know it's discouraging, but if feathers grow in there is something funky going on in the genetics department, and I would not breed them.

These were hatched from shipped eggs. I was thinking along the same lines. They're awfully sweet though.. the pullets will go into my laying flock.

Babymakes6, that does look stilty to me, though I'm no expert.

 

[GaryDean26]

Does anyone else think this is the "stiltiness?"

Yep. Not that I am 100% clear on what Stiltiness is, but that is what I was thinking of when I saw the term. Lots of leg. I think we are looking for more of taper from the legs to the body. Not much in the way of drum sticks on him.

 

[KPenley]

Yep. Not that I am 100% clear on what Stiltiness is, but that is what I was thinking of when I saw the term. Lots of leg. I think we are looking for more of taper from the legs to the body. Not much in the way of drum sticks on him.

Well that makes visual sense to me. Ok, yup babymakes6, that boy has got no drumsticks! He is stilty (is that a word?).

 

[ChicKat]

Well that makes visual sense to me. Ok, yup babymakes6, that boy has got no drumsticks! He is stilty (is that a word?).

LOL - yes, we got the word from the UK standard as something that the cockerel is NOT supposed to be. :O)
Trouble is we ddin't know exactly what it was.