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Thank you Chickat! I'm sure I'm being too sensitive - I shouldn't have mentioned anything.
I had to PM Mary to apologize, I definitely am not an expert, think I am, or want anyone feeling bummed at all!
I want feel good all around
That actually strikes me as funny about 'pale butter' LOL, I guess I can imagine comparing with a stick of it. LOL.
That sounds very English - you're right, we all have a long way to go! LOL.
I'm very pleased to make your acquaintance Chickat, and Chicken Pickin, I'm glad we all share a love of Cream Legbar!
Hope you all have a FABULOUS WEEK!*
Lindsay
Color is often a topic of sometimes conflict or debate so many tend to not discuss color. Color does need to be discussed on occasion so especially new folks can understand what they are seeing, what might need to be adjusted within their own flock, or in general what color and degree of color should be seen in what areas etc. The degree of color we have on CL huge. The SOP is somewhat vague allowing people to use there own interpretations on the wording. So the allowance of color or lack of color can both be correct. Color shouldn't be the main topic of CL because type is very important to recognizing a breed, as well as maintaining the auto sexing feature and working to better our blue eggs that are often green. Color should be discussed on occasion, in my opinion, so we can better understand the color Cream and how to achieve it and maintain the color within a flock, because there is still much confusion.
As for the color of cream @ChicKat mentioned the UK judge describing cream as pale butter, a stick of butter is a good comparison in my opinion. We were told a while back that the cream color in the hackles and saddle area should be a pale butter color and that is what my goal is.
I have not been breeding long but here is my CL male and he is what I would call somewhat of a pale butter color (though in the future I would like the cream to show a little brighter and warmer in color)
And here is a pullet I also consider to have "pale butter" cream hackles (again im still working to enhance the cream color)
My birds are very far from perfect but the cream color shown is what I personally feel the color Cream should look like in my flock as I am progressing forward. I hope to enhance the cream color some in the future. I will learn more as I do more breedings, hatch more, and see many more chicks mature and I get more experience under my belt. As of now this is what I feel cream looks like but it is just my personal view.
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a gentle reminder to all young and old, the UK judges I wrote to a while back told us that the ideal cream is a " very pale butter". And while our standard will have different wording than that of the UK, because the APA and the PCGB use different vernacular, the SAME bird should come to mind if you read the cream variety standards side by side. Hope that helps and I wish you all a wonderful week!
