Cream Legbars

[lonnyandrinda]

Unless my little hooligan lays an egg TODAY her score is goose egg for this week. -- When I got her back she only weighed 3 1/4 pounds though....she doesn't have enough to her to make an egg --but she's happy. Then our temps -- 110, 108, 107 --- killer heat...... (The area the chickens are is 99 though -thank heaven) Yep I do have wierd names....

It's Me(d)Cre --- because her crest is Medium -- but I kind of call her Mee-creee. :O)

LOL I thought you were being punny- as in "mediocre" because you didn't think you would get many eggs.

 

[CibolaChooks]

Unless my little hooligan lays an egg TODAY her score is goose egg for this week. -- When I got her back she only weighed 3 1/4 pounds though....she doesn't have enough to her to make an egg --but she's happy. Then our temps -- 110, 108, 107 --- killer heat...... (The area the chickens are is 99 though -thank heaven) Yep I do have wierd names....

It's Me(d)Cre --- because her crest is Medium -- but I kind of call her Mee-creee. :O)

my birds also get names after their attributes or color. Although most don't get names. I'm conflicted about if they get a name will I loose them to a predator or something or if i give them a name will they live the longest.

 

[ChicKat]

LOL I thought you were being punny- as in "mediocre" because you didn't think you would get many eggs.

If she doesn't shape up -- her performance will be BELOW mediocre. She just started this spring -- and she was an amazing egg-a-day girl. (albeit pullet eggs).

 

[lawatt]

we need a little smiley of a chicken on a computer -- not just that one of a happy face on a computer.....

Know what else? Henderson doesn't have CLs yet, I think because they aren't recognized by APA but they are ALSO 'non-sitters' - and I hope they never get the memo -- because I love it when the hen does all the work -- and I think hen-raised chickens have a head-start in life compared with brooder raised chickens --because they get out there and start foraging much earlier -- and mom is right there doing a demo. And it is so cute to see a mom and chicks. I also read that a female raised by a mother hen who will sit is more likely to brood and raise her own chicks.

i was wondering whether "new" breeds ever get added to the Henderson's chart? i'm also keeping isbars, and they're not on there either...

 

[ChicKat]

my birds also get names after their attributes or color. Although most don't get names. I'm conflicted about if they get a name will I loose them to a predator or something or if i give them a name will they live the longest.

Steen -- that's not scientific...;O)

We should collect chicken superstitions....it does seem that predators get the best ones. argggggggghhhhhhhhhh.

Yesterday I was talking to a man who said if you name them you can never eat them (talking about cattle in that case - but he decided it applied to chickens too).

 

[KPenley]

Yesterday I was talking to a man who said if you name them you can never eat them (talking about cattle in that case - but he decided it applied to chickens too).

I disagree...Graphite is going to freezer camp this weekend to get fattened up a bit. Does that mean his name is free to use again?

 

[wlhtx]

If you can, I'd love to hear an audio clip of his crow! For that matter, everyone who has a rooster with a funny or notable crow. I've found recording and uploading a few seconds' video is easiest. . .

I have a good clip of our older roo's first attempts (the broken dryer), but I really want to catch the piglet in action too. It really is hilarious.

I tried to upload the clip from my phone, but I guess you can't do that. Will have to try to later from the computer...

 

[CibolaChooks]

so my cream legbar cross with a RIW is getting a crest < I call this Cross A CreamSteen btw. I still think I'm on to something. This one is by all accounts acting like a male. Its pure white.I have two more of these growing out that are hatched by my CL. The one is pure white and had slow wing feather growth and the other one had fast wing feather growth and has become tinted. some color is all over her. they both had a small head spot on the back between the head and neck . but the one with color had a yellow topped head and the other all white one had a white topped head. I really do think I have a new sex link. Time will tell. The pic of the two is hard to see but you can see the one is getting that amber link color and the other is all white.



here is the crested one with his Barred Cochin broody momma

 

[1muttsfan]

Hendersons chart does have some non-APA breeds - such as Appenzellers and Fayoumi. The breeds listed are birds that they have personally owned, so if they have not had them they do not appear on the chart. Maybe we should send them some chicks?

Both of my youngest cockerels have developed wry tail - one goes to the left, the other to the right

. Really too bad, as I am still searching for a backup cockerel to the main man, and they both look very promising color wise.

(I also do not name my birds unless a name is glaringly obvious, as each bird I name seems to come to an ignominious end).

 

[ChicKat]

(I also do not name my birds unless a name is glaringly obvious, as each bird I name seems to come to an ignominious end).

Oh no, another uptick in the count for not naming.