Cream Legbar Working Group: Standard of Perfection

[HaplessRunner]

Update on the Third Annual Cream Legbar Club Online Virtual Show

So far, I have added 3 cream legbar cockerels, 4 cream legbar pullets, 1 golden crele legbar pullet, and 1 white legbar pullet to the show albums. Keep the entries coming!!

 

[HaplessRunner]

Update on the Third Annual Cream Legbar Club Online, Virtual Show

So far, I have added 2 cream legbar cocks, 4 cream legbar hens, 7 cream legbar cockerels, and 10 cream legbar pullets to the show albums. I have also added 1 golden crele legbar cock, 2 golden crele legbar pullets, and 1 white legbar pullet to the show albums. Keep the entries coming!

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[Miriah132]

Can someone please look at my pullet and cockerel. They are by no means clean or posed well, but just an over all judge of my birds? I’ve read over and over the purposed sop but I’m a very visual person lol. They are about 9 weeks old here.

 

[duluthralphie]

Can someone please look at my pullet and cockerel. They are by no means clean or posed well, but just an over all judge of my birds? I’ve read over and over the purposed sop but I’m a very visual person lol. They are about 9 weeks old here.

They really need more time for anyone to give you a meaningful opinion. Sorry.

 

[Miriah132]

They really need more time for anyone to give you a meaningful opinion. Sorry.

It’s ok! Thank you for your reply!

 

[Bantambird]

It’s ok! Thank you for your reply!

I'll have to agree with Ralphie. They do look like cream legbars and currently there are no glaring issues with them. They will need some time for us to know more.

 

[Miriah132]

I'll have to agree with Ralphie. They do look like cream legbars and currently there are no glaring issues with them. They will need some time for us to know more.

Thank you!

 

[Miriah132]

So since Cream Legbars aren’t recognized by the APA yet, what criteria do you have to meet, or what exactly do you have to do to show them? I was hoping to attend a local show to get some expiriece and take my marans and Legbars. But I’m jot sure how to, or even if I can, enter my Legbars.

 

[GaryDean26]

I like to start with the back when I evaluate type. The back is the frame work that the rest of the bird is built on and is arguably the most important thing to the bird's type. Here is what the standard says for the Legbar Back.

Back: Moderately broad at the shoulders, narrowing slightly toward the tail, long in length, flat, sloping slightly to the tail.

Saddle feathers—Abundant, long, and filling well in front of the tail.

If you haven't looked at a lot of APA breed standards and compared them with the ideal outlines of birds then that may not bring any images to your visual mind. So...here are some APA birds with different shaped backs. Descriptions for all of these shapes are found in the APA standards. Anyone who cares to join this discuss on the Legbar SOP comment on which one or ones you feel meet the proposed description above. I will post my comments tomorrow and then add the next thing I look at when evaluating type. I am doing this because many people read the standard but can't visualize what the bird should look like and fail to develop a critical eye for the breed. Once they have this skill it is a whole new world and everything is much more clear.

 

[GaryDean26]

I don't see any takers on this. I will give a few more days for people to respond. I have been getting nudges the past few weeks to start a Cream Legbar mentor group. We can have that group here if people are interested. It helps to know who is participating in the group so either introduce yourself so we know who is participating or give us your thoughts on the point of the SOP we are discussing so we know who is here.