I'll be checking in over the weekend, I will be showing on the coast this weekend. The legbars will be staying home since they ruined their feathers this week
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Great idea!
I'm not trying to be mean to anyone, but it has been obvious to me by comments I have read that folks don't know as much about this breed as they would like to think. It takes most people about 10 years to get on to this stuff. Recognizing the parts is the first step. Trying to fix them is going to be an awesome task. This is a complex breed and although it is supposed to have a Leghorn look it seems a bit different to me.
Pictures always help in understanding a written Standard.
Walt
okay, why don't folks tell us the good and bad of this male.
W
Good luck with the show!!I don't have time to comment before i go.....will when I return. Good comments!
Walt
Haha I was going to take a stab but man you guys have already said it all... can't wait to hear what Walt has to say!
I have immensely enjoyed following along the CSU thread; off to look up the HLF thread....
Great idea!
,,,,,,,,,,,, Recognizing the parts is the first step. Trying to fix them is going to be an awesome task. This is a complex breed and although it is supposed to have a Leghorn look it seems a bit different to me. ..................
Pictures always help in understanding a written Standard.
Walt
I agree so much with both of you..................I don't think they are leghorn die cast cookie cutters. But the type is a leghorn type. I expect that the Plymouth Rock passed on more than just it's barred color to the legbar, and that is why they seem a fuller bodied bird to me. There is also something.. Maybe it's a slight difference in stance....................
In anycase, it's a similar body type, though you're not going to fit a legbar into a leghorn cutout.
Since I already have weighed in -- I want to add my breeding correction plan.Photos can only do so much, and seeing the birds from a direct side-on is different from most of the CL photos that are from above and from 3/4 side-angle....these are nice examples of healthy birds..
This does resemble the more upright stance that CL roosters have as opposed to a more elongated lateral stance that a lot of the leghorns (in pictures- especially historic ones that I have seen) show.
The rooster has a 5-point comb going for it, (did I count right?) I know that you cannot tell from photos, but is the bulge over the eye similar to a thumb-mark?
Seems like has the 45-degree tail angle.
Here is another thing that perhaps Walt could address...
"...Breast prominent, and breast bone straight"
blue typeface quote lifted from the autosexing site http://autosexing-poultry.co.uk/wordpress/legbar/
The line from the top to the lower part of the breast does look pretty straight angled at about 45-degrees from horizontal as it slopes toward the legs.
ETA typed crest, meant comb, corrected it above.
This Will and did get me banned from the ameraucana thread. The Clique was way stronger than several peoples opinion. Their agenda was all that mattered..
I don't take umbrage at anything anyone says. I have opinions, and I use them. Sometimes people feel as though I am stepping on their toes since I don't do the so and so says so thing.. There is a large clique of people on a major yorkie forum that positively LOATHES me, they call me a pot stirrer, they say I have an agenda, and they attack the simplest things I say because it threatens their status quo. Our last "tiff" I called them hypocrites,
Steen,This Will and did get me banned from the ameraucana thread. The Clique was way stronger than several peoples opinion. Their agenda was all that mattered.