Cream Legbars

[Bantambird]

I hatched this spring for a few local buyers and I gotta agree that the chicks are just a little more prone to be weak at hatch. Had a failure to thrive out of 50 hatched this spring and it was a Legbar. Since adding Thorvin kelp to the ration I see less failure to thrive but I may not be putting out enough birds to know for sure. I do know the Marans are usually bigger and more active right off than the Legbars. People love those birds though. I am going to get my NPIP eventually too, someday. Mom used to be the vet for that but there are not enough in Montana for her to keep her lab, so I have to make some calls...

 

[caychris]

I gotta be honest, that is one ugly huge comb in the top picture, It could be the way he is moving his head. Nice crest though in second picture.. What you are doing is good. I have done the same and have some 1/2 and 1/4 CLB and EEs. I get the great blue on larger eggs.

Yeah his comb is way too big for his head and gets covered in food and other stuff so it looks terrible it doesnt flop all the time either when he drinks however it gets washed clean sometimes and the ladies always help pick it clean too. He has a really large crest for a boy I think and is the sweetest guy easy to handle not an aggressive bone in his body but will spar through the fence with the other rooster.

 

[gingerly1983]

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I love the look of your birds. I will hopefully get some eggs from you in the future. I have 3 cream legbar Roos now that I will be culling. 2 are Jill Rees from GFF and 1 is from another breeder. None are what I'm looking for. I do have a few more growing out, they are still chicks though. I would be happy with a roo like yours. I have a pullet like yours but if you look closely it looks like her earlobes are a bit aqua colored. Here are a few pics of my legbars.

Thanks for the compliment. I started with 18 Roos from GFF and culled all but 3. They were all the same color, none of them had a lot of chestnut. Their issues were the combs! They were extremely floppy and a few had side sprigs. I have a few running loose in the yard with my backyard flock, but only the best 3 are breeders. I was lucky to be able to keep all my girls as breeders. The only thing was the egg color. It started off more of a spearmint greenish blue, but further into their laying cycle they definitely got lighter and more blue. I like your girl, she's got that nice light chest color that I love. <3 I would grow your Roos out a little more before you cull. They might surprise you.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Don't make any decisions based on the pullet's aqua earlobes yet - my pullet's earlobe did this once, and it went away again after a couple weeks. I actually think it was bruising from an injury and it was just that color. When my rooster was attacked and his back end was plucked clean and bruised, the bruises turned that bright aqua blue color a day or two after - alarmed me enough to call the vet (thinking it was an infection with Pseudomonas or something), but was reassured that the bruise coloring in chickens looks different than human bruises (different skin & tissues). Her earlobes may go white again...

- Ant Farm

 

[Bantambird]

Cockerels change a lot until they are a year old. If you have any that you can wait till they grow and fill in, I like to do this.

 

[rottlady]

I used to breed finches and button quail. Had chickens for eggs/meat 30 years ago but breeding them is new
I do not know what "duckwing" coloration is. I detest the big gold patches on the Legbar roos so the less the better for me LOL I won't be showing them. My goals are to have birds that look like their breed for the most part. For Legbars I want big bouffant crests without being polish breed ridiculous in the hens, a crest in the males, smaller combs, pleasant personality and large blue eggs (not blue green not green)

I have 5 Legbars right now. 3 from one breeder (the roo above and 2 pullets) and they so far fit this description completely-friendly, crests etc (sans eggs because not old enough to lay but hatched from large med blue eggs) and I have 2 -3 week old Roos from elsewhere and will be placing at least 1 if not both of them. 1 is rosecomb which is good (they are from a rosecomb project) but they came from green small eggs and are very flighty unfriendly birds

Have 12 more eggs in incubator from a 3rd breeder. eggs are large and pale blue due to hatch in 2 weeks

As far as frail chicks go. I've had 2 groups so far which included Delaware, Barnevelder and Cream legbars. The Dels and legbars were easy. The Barnevelders took forever to figure out the eating and drinking thing

 

[duluthralphie]

Yeah his comb is way too big for his head and gets covered in food and other stuff so it looks terrible it doesnt flop all the time either when he drinks however it gets washed clean sometimes and the ladies always help pick it clean too. He has a really large crest for a boy I think and is the sweetest guy easy to handle not an aggressive bone in his body but will spar through the fence with the other rooster.

I love fence sparring. It reminds me of grade school boys that want to fight, but secretly want to be held back from fighting..

 

[duluthralphie]

I used to breed finches and button quail. Had chickens for eggs/meat 30 years ago but breeding them is new
I do not know what "duckwing" coloration is. I detest the big gold patches on the Legbar roos so the less the better for me LOL I won't be showing them. My goals are to have birds that look like their breed for the most part. For Legbars I want big bouffant crests without being polish breed ridiculous in the hens, a crest in the males, smaller combs, pleasant personality and large blue eggs (not blue green not green)

I have 5 Legbars right now. 3 from one breeder (the roo above and 2 pullets) and they so far fit this description (sans eggs because not old enough to lay but hatched from large med blue eggs) and I have 2 -3 week old Roos from elsewhere and will be placing at least 1 if not both of them. 1 is rosecomb which is good (they are from a rosecomb project) but they came from green small eggs and are very flighty unfriendly birds

Have 12 more eggs in incubator from a 3rd breeder. eggs are large and pale blue due to hatch in 2 weeks

As far as frail chicks go. I've had 2 groups so far which included Delaware, Barnevelder and Cream legbars. The Dels and legbars were easy. The Barnevelders took forever to figure out the eating and drinking thing

When I said duckwing I meant the gold hash on the wing like a duck has. I guess technically that has to be blue or green to be a real duckwing.

You hit on one of my complaints having to have a bird that does not represent the best production/farm bird be the standard is just weird, to me.


I find the behavior of CLB different than other birds. When together mine are flighty, when alone or a small group they are friendly and calm. I am sure it is just my birds or the way I have them penned. But it is night and day different from my others.

On the chicks I might not have explained myself well. Up to a week I find the CLB chicks "soft" or weak. After a week old they are tough and nothing stops them.

 

[Bantambird]

Crele is golden duckwing with barring added in. Cream is diluted crele, partway between golden and silver duckwing. I like a bit of the gold on the wings but not too much. Like you said before, I want defined barring! I am working first on shapes, then colors. Now I have nice combs, I am going to dial up the crest and look for a happy medium in my cocks, get standardized wedge shaped bodies, and work on squirrel tail, that one white tail feather that shows up on some, my earlobes are needing to be much whiter... then color.

 

[jerryse]

Crele is golden duckwing with barring added in. Cream is diluted crele, partway between golden and silver duckwing. I like a bit of the gold on the wings but not too much. Like you said before, I want defined barring! I am working first on shapes, then colors. Now I have nice combs, I am going to dial up the crest and look for a happy medium in my cocks, get standardized wedge shaped bodies, and work on squirrel tail, that one white tail feather that shows up on some, my earlobes are needing to be much whiter... then color.

You really should call it red duckwing to avoid confusion with Golden Duckwing in the SOP. Which is a male with silver and gold . BB Red and light brown are different expressions of the same red wild type . So in Old English game crele is BB red + barring . The Legbar is Light brown + barring + cream .

Duckwing is the contrasting color of the secondaries in mid lower wing . You are confusing red shoulders (autosomal red ) with duckwing . Let me see what I can find in the way of pictures to help .