Cream Legbar Working Group: Standard of Perfection

[nicalandia]

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I would love to get my hands on an icubator just like that...

 

[WHmarans]

That is amazing! He is a cute chick. My Christmas Day hatch was gray-ish also.

What a great pic how cute! And love the egg color.

 

[ChicKat]

Quote: It's a good entry-level little "work horse" -- It's the kind that they use in grade schools when teachers hatch eggs for the kids...and so fun to see them at eye-level as they hatch.

 

[enola]

What is the brand name of the incubator? It looks like it wouldmake a great hatcher.

 

[WHmarans]

What is the brand name of the incubator? It looks like it wouldmake a great hatcher.

Brinsea makes one that looks like it.

 

[ChicKat]

Yes, it is Brinsea! Can hold up to 7 chicken eggs or, I think a dozen quail eggs. Has automatic turner, and a cool down cycle, since studies show that replicates the time the hen would be off the nest, and can promote hatch rate.

 

[enola]

Sometimes I think my hatch rate is as high as it is because I open my incubator twice a day to hand turn my eggs. They get to cool for just a few minutes each time. I hardly ever lose a chick once it starts developing.

 

[ChicKat]

Sometimes I think my hatch rate is as high as it is because I open my incubator twice a day to hand turn my eggs. They get to cool for just a few minutes each time. I hardly ever lose a chick once it starts developing.

Good thinking, somewhere I read that the more thier incubation period replicates how they would be incubated under a hen, the better.

 

[CibolaChooks]

quick question ??? everybody who has gotten pullets that have black tips on the feathers the extra Barring. do you guys have dark barred roosters or light barred roosters that gave you those pullets

 

[nicalandia]

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the SOP of the Cream Legbars does not describe a Silver/Cream/Gold Crele bird, as the males should have grey barring on creast, shoulders, wing coverts, back, saddle and hackle... making the brid look overall grey silvered instead of the sharp constrast between the dark barring on the breast of the crele breeds and the gold/ginger barring on the hackle/saddle on the rest of the body, the problem with this is that sometimes you get over melanized females...