Cream Legbar Working Group: Standard of Perfection

[ChicKat]

There was a discussion of prepotency recently on . . . a thread. Heritage breeds thread, maybe? Fred's Hens started that discussion.

normanack! - any idea of where, how long ago or what it was near?

Heritage breeds had this:THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF BREEDING TO TYPE - ITS APPLICATION TO THE BREEDING OF DOGS, FARM ANIMALS, CAGE BIRDS AND OTHER SMALL PETS. By C.J. Davies =
He speaks in general about type not just specifically chickens, infact, I think in the subtitle he talks about dog breeds...and I'm only 1/2 way through the book.....

It was posted by 3riverschick
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/400344/heritage-large-fowl-thread/16420 ==Look at post 16428

I downloaded the kindle edition on my tablet and Davies mentions that the female can also have prepotency. How cool is that? I need to learn much more about that subject.

 

[GaryDean26]

It was posted by 3riverschick
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/400344/heritage-large-fowl-thread/16420 ==Look at post 16428

I love all of 3riverschicks' references. Karen is like a librarian for poultry publications. Some of my best finds have been things she tipped me off on.

 

[ChicKat]

I love all of 3riverschicks' references. Karen is like a librarian for poultry publications. Some of my best finds have been things she tipped me off on.

Ah Ha!! I didn't know that. I put in an ovation for her for posting the book. :O)

 

[GaryDean26]

Out of clarification, I am not saying that she IS a librarian, just that she is better read on poultry publications that anyone I know and always posting obscure references that answer every question that comes up perfectly.

I have given her several ovations too. My favorite were her reference to a publication from the Kansas Agricultural Research Station on culling for egg production by head points, and of course when she shared that she saw a Kitchen Nightmares episode where Gordon Ramsey had a restaurant in the UK set up their own flock of Cream Legbars to supply their chef with premiere eggs to cook with.

 

[WHmarans]

Yay for Sophie - did her stock (DJIA) just go up?  >:O)

yes.. She's the plumpin'-est girl I have lol. These pics pack a lot of legbar.. Sorry about the chicken wire! Sophie

sophie

merlin strikes a pose

other hens hackles

more hackles

second to last includes the gold one with no crest. You can really see the color I think! Here's one more with lots of hackles

 

[ChicKat]

Super pictures, thanks for posting them. I love them..... I really like Merlin too.

My pullet's stock went up today too--she just laid an egg after coming out of molt so she quit right at the end of August and got back on the job today....

 

[WHmarans]

Super pictures, thanks for posting them.  I love them.....  I really like Merlin too.  

My pullet's stock went up today too--she just laid an egg after coming out of molt so she quit right at the end of August and got back on the job today....

Thanks! Yay! Eggs are so fun. First eggs are even more fun

 

[WHmarans]

OK ordering my OAC ..when do we start? Do I get to play too? I just want to follow along. Is this Club based or will the OAC and chicken parts and colors discussion happen here? Am I missing it?

 

[chicken pickin]

OK ordering my OAC ..when do we start? Do I get to play too? I just want to follow along. Is this Club based or will the OAC and chicken parts and colors discussion happen here? Am I missing it?

Im sure the discussions will happen here also. But if you want to join the club just go www.creamlegbarclub.com and sign up as a member, its quick and easy. I received my OAC chart yesterday

 

[normanack]

There was a discussion of prepotency recently on . . . a thread. Heritage breeds thread, maybe? Fred's Hens started that discussion.

normanack!  - any idea of where, how long ago or what it was near?

Heritage Large Fowl thread, beginning on page 1616, post 16160 by Fred's Hens. You have to skip some unreated posts before there are responses to his question, and his continued discussion. I myself asked a very erudite question on the topic.