Cream Legbars

[sol2go]

So this hatched out of an egg I got from a friend marked CL/EE ???

She knows it was a CL hen, but her black Ameraucana Rooster had gotten into the pen, so she wasn't sure who the father was. What do you guys think?

Cheeky little chick, I'd say EE...

 

[sol2go]

I have 11 Cream legbar eggs starting to hatch
4 have already broken the shell
I will post pics when they hatch

BCP

Hi, thanks for posting, looking forward to the chick pics. Are these from your stock or did you buy hatching eggs?

 

[sol2go]

Frozen water bottles to discourage a broody? Brilliant, I've been giving mine cold baths, the water bottles look a lot easier.
Always enjoy your pics, including your very relaxed gal.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: My Copper Marans are blue, so I'm happy to hear this. I'm building a separate coop for the "layer" group (I keep my birds in families each looked after by a good protective rooster who also, bonus, is baby-daddy most of time). I will be using a BCM rooster with the BCM pullets and some of the CLs (and an olive egger or two that I got in the last chick shipment). Excited about this cross!

Quote: I didn't have any cold packs - so I bought some at Walgreens, and was astonished at how fast she warmed them right up, so I just pulled out the frozen water bottles because I honestly couldn't deal with anything more complicated (a temporizing thing until getting the cage). But it worked!!! You should have seen it - she hated it at first, got off, and paced around, and then very gingerly set back down on them... I had to check on her though, because she would get off them and move to another nest, and I'd have to move them back under her (poor thing...)

My Cream Legbars have all been quite friendly - it's more obvious now because I have younger ones being raised at the same time as other breed chicks. Lissa was always the most standoffish of the adults - it astonished me that she let me hold her like that and fell asleep!!!

Now I have a Speckled Sussex pullet that is trying to go broody (in a wild nest outside her paddock). I pulled her off the nest the past two nights to put her on the roost, but if I find her out there today - WATER BOTTLES!!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[sol2go]

My Copper Marans are blue, so I'm happy to hear this. I'm building a separate coop for the "layer" group (I keep my birds in families each looked after by a good protective rooster who also, bonus, is baby-daddy most of time). I will be using a BCM rooster with the BCM pullets and some of the CLs (and an olive egger or two that I got in the last chick shipment). Excited about this cross!

I didn't have any cold packs - so I bought some at Walgreens, and was astonished at how fast she warmed them right up, so I just pulled out the frozen water bottles because I honestly couldn't deal with anything more complicated (a temporizing thing until getting the cage). But it worked!!! You should have seen it - she hated it at first, got off, and paced around, and then very gingerly set back down on them... I had to check on her though, because she would get off them and move to another nest, and I'd have to move them back under her (poor thing...)

My Cream Legbars have all been quite friendly - it's more obvious now because I have younger ones being raised at the same time as other breed chicks. Lissa was always the most standoffish of the adults - it astonished me that she let me hold her like that and fell asleep!!!

Now I have a Speckled Sussex pullet that is trying to go broody (in a wild nest outside her paddock). I pulled her off the nest the past two nights to put her on the roost, but if I find her out there today - WATER BOTTLES!!!!

- Ant Farm

I'm stocking up!

 

[duluthralphie]

Ooops....


I make a boo-boo.... Things were not what they seemed here..

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I would like some opinions on this 13-week-old boy. I was originally going to cull all males in this hatch because I wasn't out to look for a replacement rooster yet (happy with Dumbledore), and I'm limited in my ability to keep them (I have a few of other breeds). But he is turning out nicely - comb is almost totally straight (a miracle, it seems), earlobes are white (well, a wee bit of pink on the edges, but whiter than the other boys), coloring in hackles is not too dark, and he's calm and good tempered (a few of these boys are hellions).








Could you guys (esp. those with lots of breeding for draft SOP experience) comment on him - I'm relatively new at this, and particularly interested in opinions on conformation (back length, tail, etc.), and anything else I may be missing. (I tried my best to get a proper side shot for the back, not sure how well it shows). Sorry for the Alhoa Naked Neck photo bombs - they are a curious bunch...

This is just for my back yard - I don't sell chicks/hatching eggs. But I want to do the best that I can to preserve them (or at least not let them degenerate in my inexperienced hands).

Thanks!

BTW, if anyone wondered, a Super Soaker Zombie Dreadnought Blaster does an excellent job at getting obnoxious cockerels to stop chasing and harassing pullets, at up to 25 ft.

- Ant Farm

 

[sol2go]

wow the chick on the far left is amazing colors. What color shade did it turn out as an adult. I just love it really beautiful and interesting. Kind of wild cat like

finally got a pic to share of Emma, she knew I was "aiming" for her, so she was pacing =)

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Here's another boy that looked promising (though a bit less so), slight crook in his comb, and darker, though good barring. (It was harder to get photos of him.)




And, for fun, here are the girls all perching in the chinaberry trees, avoiding the hormonal boys:


- Ant Farm

 

[Bantambird]

And, for fun, here are the girls all perching in the chinaberry trees, avoiding the hormonal boys: - Ant Farm

Just before fall, all the girls start hiding all over the yard under every bush and around the corner from those hormone riddled males. Lol!