Welcome Surock. This thread was started when the first Draft of the APA standard was started. The Cream Legbar Working Group grew into the Cream Legbar Club. We are now on about Draft 4-5 of the standard and it is worked on in the Club Standards committee whihc doesn't have the visibility that this thread did. I am always happy to see people who wanted to under stand the breed standard join this thread. The more open discussion the better (as long and we all are civil and get along).
Bantambird, I made a swap this fall. I made a swap with ChicKat in 2012 and a swap with Lonnyandrinda in 2013. I haven't brought in any new blood since then, but traded two pullets to a lady near us for spring hatching eggs from her line. She said her hens are 8 years old so I think she has lost track of the time, but at any rate she has cream colored birds from early on. I really hope they are earlier than the 2013 GFF lines. I was NOT a fan of the 2013 birds. I like the 2011-2012 line birds though. I don't think I would be happy with the results if I crossed lines. I know lots of people that have crossed the A/B lines with the 2013 (C/D lines) and the later 2013 Rees and 2016 Rees lines. MOst of them regretted crossing lines. The A/B lines have a lot of good qualities such as good egg color, large bodied birds, good egg size, good vigor etc. People that were accustom to those qualities thought that crossing would give them birds that had better color, better type, hybird vigor, etc. Then they saw their favorite things about the breed dissapear (be it egg color, disposition, etc). So...I would try to find a line that is closly related (i.e. A/B line) so that you can keep uniformity in your flock and make it easier to control the out put from the mating. I will likely do test mates of the A/B stock I get in the Spring to see if I like the results before mixing it with my line. I lost the white color on the ear lobes and have been working 3 years to get it back. I am finally seeing progress and would hate to lose all the progress and have to start over again due to making a cross that put a ripple in the bloodline.
