Cream legbar

[chrissynemetz]

I would love to have a couple of cream Legbars, I think they're so pretty.
But as for blue eggs, I have some Whiting blues who lay the coolest light blue eggs. And the Whitings are a lot easier to find than Legbars around here.

 

[Pennys Mama]

I've only got these 4 nests now, I had more but they all wanted to use the same ones so I removed a couple. If a hen goes broody I move her to an isolation pen to hatch. I've got one now hatching out a clutch of 11, crazy chicken, it's in the 20's in the mornings now. I was thinking of adding a couple back since I've got a bunch of pulleys coming up in age now.

 

[pennyJo1960]

okay had a heck of time finding any photos with my tubs I use now the open wood they would crap on them but also had the large nest a bucket is big enough for large birds to lay in

 

[IamRainey]

Hay right now, they scratch the shavings out immediately when I put them in them. The like the hay because they can pull the strands up over themselves.

I had nesting boxes at the floor level in the coop. My hens always scratched the shavings out too. I put a section of wood trim -- maybe about 3" high -- across the openings of the nesting boxes and now the shavings stay in just fine.

Meanwhile, my Cream Legbar laid the prettiest blue eggs her first year or two. Then they got paler and paler until they're almost white now. But she is a prodigious layer. She lays all through the Winter without any supplemental lighting. I think, year round, I can count on an egg from her at least 5 days out of 7.

I mated her with a French Black Copper Marans rooster. I'm hoping for some green eggs from one of her chicks. So far, 2 of the 3 chicks are laying tiny dark brown eggs.

 

[Pennys Mama]

I'm gonna hafta get some more shavings, the hay is for the goats now with winter upon us. I had a hen sitting on 11 eggs and she just had 11 hatch out yesterday!!! Nice odds! Good little broody bantam.

 

[pennyJo1960]

I would say Ya but to the rooster also

 

[Pennys Mama]

True, I suppose he is doing his job, huh?

 

[pennyJo1960]

Wonder where the OP is

 

[Pennys Mama]

Wonder where the OP is

 

[pennyJo1960]

Seems they left the thread just after posting then I started answering you