Cream Legbar

[pbriley6026]

Two of my 20 wk old cream legbars have white earlobes. Is this common? No issues with behavior eating or drinking. Photos below

 

[p4PaDuck x2]

Yes I do believe that is normal for legbars. They look healthy it’s nothing to worry about.

 

[DragonflyAcres]

I think that's the normal color, isn't it? That's what mine has.

 

[Loving my girls]

I’m getting a legbar and a Suédoise on 10 September (my birthday).

I AM SOOOO EXCITED!!!!!

 

[GaryDean26]

Most brow egg laying breeds have red ear lobes (the Penedesenca breed is an exception that has white ear lobes and lays dark brown eggs). Most white egg laying breeds have white earlobes (the Lamona breed is an exception that has red ear lobes and lays white eggs). The Cream Legbar was developed from the White Egg Laying Gold Legbar Variety with the addition of the blue egg gene. They should have white ear lobes like a Leghorn.

NOTE: I always thought it would be neat to have a blue egg layer with blue ear lobes like a Silkie. To get blue ear lobes you need to have the black skin since those birds have the same white ear lobes as legbar and leghorn but with the black base giving it blue appearance. Legbars have yellow skin. Sometimes young legbars will get a yellow hue to their earlobes but as they mature they whiten up. I also have seen some legbars with a really pale blue hue to the ear lobes but that also whitens up as they mature. The white tends to come off with age. A young pullet may have 100% white ear lobes and the same bird as a 3-4 year old hen may only have 50% of the ear lobe that is still white with the rest showing through red. One of the goals that breeders have for improving the breed is to breed Legbars that hold the white color of their ear lobe further and further into their aging process

 

[McChooky]

Two of my 20 wk old cream legbars have white earlobes. Is this common? No issues with behavior eating or drinking. Photos below

What doesn't it have a Crest?