Cream Legbars

[heirloomorps]

I totally agree sol2go, hatch those eggs out while you can!

I am about ready to throw in the hatching towel this year on Cream Legbars.  ANOTHER male heavy hatch, 10 males 4 reg females 1 white female.  Of the eggs that almost made it, 2 were female and 3 were male.  YIKES!!  Even Stinky can't keep up with the amount of males I'm hatching.  I sold 32 males of various breeds to a guy last week who is going to grow them out and eat them, and this batch I am putting down all but 3 males.  Man I hate culling perfectly healthy chicks.  This makes 4 or 5 hatches in a row that I've had VERY heavy male hatches.

Rinda

That is so strange. You would think after that many hatches it would even out.

That being said, my last two hatches has been 7 males and 0 females.

 

[racinchickins]

I just tried to hatch 7 eggs. Only one hatched, and it's definitely a boy.

 

[FridayYet]

Steen - I hear your concern - I lost most of my older cream legbars to a coyote attack a few days ago, I have only one survivor with cream hackles and a beautiful blue egg. My cockerel took a beating, he's off to the vet today because I can't decide if he's doing better or worse. I have some pullet eggs I could hatch from this group, but I was planning to wait until the fall so the parents would be about a year old. Any thoughts on whether to hatch or not?

I'm so sorry about the coyote attack. I also vote for hatching.

Well I'm trying hatch some now. I have42 n the cabinet incubator now. One more week, fingers crossed. This is my second attempt. I had a full load to hatch a month ago. Well supposed to hatch. Lockdown was on mothers day. When the crowd left came into room and it was sitting at 150° I thought I was seeing things. They all died 3 days before hatching. So I fixed everything and trying again.

That's awful. Hope your next batch goes smooth!

 

[graciesmum]

Well I'm trying hatch some now. I have42 n the cabinet incubator now. One more week, fingers crossed. This is my second attempt. I had a full load to hatch a month ago. Well supposed to hatch. Lockdown was on mothers day. When the crowd left came into room and it was sitting at 150° I thought I was seeing things. They all died 3 days before hatching. So I fixed everything and trying again.

fingers crossed for you hope it goes well

 

[CibolaChooks]

Some pics of my boys showing corrected tail angles and the black brested pullet



















This guy on the right is a week younger than the left. he has grown the fastest and surpassed the others in the first two weeks of his life.

 

[KPenley]

Some pics of my boys showing corrected tail angles and the black brested pullet



















This guy on the right is a week younger than the left. he has grown the fastest and surpassed the others in the first two weeks of his life.

Beautiful birds! Feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken anyone, but I think that birds with original GFF Line A in them grow the quickest, lay early and the most eggs, and present the largest birds at full size...but their coloring was off, and they had some serious flaws like wry tail, floppy comb etc. So if your blend has corrected the original flaws it sounds like you have some real winners!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Hehe Kestlyn I love on your swap page that your Pen 2 Cream Legbars are called Fog Line.

 

[KPenley]

Hehe Kestlyn I love on your swap page that your Pen 2 Cream Legbars are called Fog Line.

My mom actually suggested it one day on the phone...I have lots of future boy fog type names to go with (dark fog, light fog, dense fog

, mist, steam, cloud, storm, etc). The girls follow no rhyme or reason lol. Since we named your boy London Fog, his girls were named Kate and Diana. Sadly Diana didn't make it, she snuck into the big pen and either was attacked or ate the adult food with calcium (we were out of town so I'm not sure which)...I hope that I didn't seal her fate with her name

. If I can breed some crested girls from Cider, they'll join London when they're old enough.

 

[heirloomorps]

My mom actually suggested it one day on the phone...I have lots of future boy fog type names to go with (dark fog, light fog, dense fog

, mist, steam, cloud, storm, etc). The girls follow no rhyme or reason lol. Since we named your boy London Fog, his girls were named Kate and Diana. Sadly Diana didn't make it, she snuck into the big pen and either was attacked or ate the adult food with calcium (we were out of town so I'm not sure which)...I hope that I didn't seal her fate with her name

. If I can breed some crested girls from Cider, they'll join London when they're old enough.

Weirdly we had a White Silkie named Diana. She passed unexpectedly overnight earlier this year.

Being English I love the English themed names.

 

[1muttsfan]

Sadly Diana didn't make it, she snuck into the big pen and either was attacked or ate the adult food with calcium (we were out of town so I'm not sure which

Sorry to hear you lost her. Excess dietary calcium causes kidney damage, which occurs over time and not as an acute toxicity, so it should not have hurt her to eat it for such a short amount of time.