Cream Legbars

[UrbanEnthusiast]

nope...

Didn't think so, just checking.

 

[CibolaChooks]

Didn't think so, just checking.

As far as the babies go. there is one black silkie running around with 4 buff silkies. But all the rest of the babies are Cream legbars. 6 females and 4 males

 

[lonnyandrinda]

GaryDean my CLs from you are HATCHING! This is better than Christmas morning! 11 of 12 made it to lockdown, looks like 100% hatch of those! 8 are out 3 more are pipped- will post pictures tomorrow after the little fuzzy-butts dry off! Can't tell for sure yet peering into the incubators but I think I see a lot of girls!

And I just have to say newborn chicks are the CUTEST LITTLE THINGS ON THE PLANET!

 

[GaryDean26]

GaryDean my CLs from you are HATCHING! This is better than Christmas morning! 11 of 12 made it to lockdown, looks like 100% hatch of those! 8 are out 3 more are pipped- will post pictures tomorrow after the little fuzzy-butts dry off! Can't tell for sure yet peering into the incubators but I think I see a lot of girls!

And I just have to say newborn chicks are the CUTEST LITTLE THINGS ON THE PLANET!

That is awsome!!! I am so glad that you had a good hatch.

 

[ChicKat]

lonnieandrinda-----

can't wait to see the pictures of your babies!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

CHICKIES PICTURES! Ended up with 6 girls, 5 boys. I boy is very indistinctly marked, may be a girl I need to take a better picture of him/her later. The same chick has something wrong with one leg- he keeps it folded up under his body 99% of the time. It's not splayed out or in front. So when he tries to walk his good leg always pushes him over on his side. Suggestions? I am guessing a brace between his legs.


Boy with problem leg is bottom left.

Here's the girls:

 

[ChicKat]

congrats!! what pretty chicks.

 

[GaryDean26]

The one on the left looks like a female to me. The Barred Plymothrock, Cuckoo Marans, and some of the other other barred breed produce females with small spots on the head and males with large spots. I think the spot method is only about 80% acurate, but I think that is what we are seing in the chick on the left, a small spotted female. We had two females from our test hatch that are now three weeks old. One had a small spot but they are both looking all girl now.

I am sorry about the bum-legged one. I had a Wheaton and Black Copper Marans both come out with bad legs from a hatch last fall (too high incubation tempurature?). The Wheaton was able to correct itself after about 3 days (with therapy) and never had trouble after that. The Black Copper never was not able to get its leg under itself. We tried hobbles, boots, etc. but nothing seemed to help and it got worse with time.

Nice looking group!

 

[cjwaldon]

I agree. The bottom left chick looks like a female. About half of mine hatch with a faint hint of a spot like that. Nice looking chicks!

 

[Tumbleweed Farm]

I had a little yellow (to be white) cream legbar chick hatch out from Mary's hens--The Sheriff. How in the heck do I sex it? It is so spunky, 3 weeks old and so small and petite.