In catching up on this thread I was going to volunteer that I don't really understand the CLB type, but Fowlman01 already made that point for me. The first thing that popped out at me from the UK standard was the "wedge type body". I still am not 100% clear on how that should look or be achieved. Then I got hung up on stiltiness and high legs. I assumed that long legs were not desirable, but in recently following some thread on another forum the exhibition Leghorn breeders said that the Leghorn type requires more vertical height (i.e. long thighs) to achieve the grace of the bird. So, yes I am concerned that I may not doing the best I can do in the selection of type. I am breeding out major defects (and their are a lot of them) and trying to get rounder breasts and a low tail that sweeps from the line of the back and fans out but that is about it at this point. I would have loved to have been in Walt's class on type with Redchicken9.
Yes, there are a few Cream Legbar owners in or near Sanoma County. I can think of 4 off the top of my head, but only one of them have taken any part in this thread and now that she is going back to school and is chickenless is lessoning her roll in the establishment of the breed. Two are people that have tons of chickens and sell and ship chickens all over the country but don't seem focused on improving any one breed or interested in trying to achieve exhibition quality stock. The last is just a backyard owner who doesn't keep roosters.
I DID talk to the West Region Director of the Cream Legbar Club when I got back from the Napa Valley Relay two weeks ago and suggest that the Sanoma area might be a good location to have their 2014 regional club activity. Since I have family in the area, and after being there for 2 days want to go back again soon, I would probably even try to travel back out to take part with our west area members.
