Cream Legbars

[OHfarmerswife]

I am not Mr C, but if I may...the ideal tail angle for roosters is 45 degrees. Most of the tails we've seen in 2012-2013 have been held very high, some even past 90 degrees above horizontal (which is called a squirrel tail/not good). To determine your rooster's natural angle, either place them in a  cage or standing position if they are trained for show, and measure it then.

@Barb, welcome to Cream Legbars! What kind of help are you looking for? Just bird purchasing???

thanks Kpen
Any info you can offer.
I have birds already from a good source.
thanks

 

[OHfarmerswife]

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Hi Barb-- How's everything in Ohio? One of the Cream Legbar Club's Regional Directors is from Ohio!! Consider joining the club - especially since you will be breeding! Here's a link that will give you a lot of information (and links TO information) -- Good to hear that you are interested in the breed!!!!! https://sites.google.com/site/thecreamlegbarclub/

thanks chic, will do some reading. I appreciate the info.

 

[CibolaChooks]

Neither agreeing nor disagreeing here -- I haven't seen the pictures or actual birds and don't have enough experience to judge them if I did! -- but would add that Jill Rees' CLBs have (rightly or wrongly) almost mythic status in the States so there is bound to be some let-down when comparing a wide sampling of her birds to her show-winning specimens.

I see the point you are making. From my emails with Jill I very seriously doubt that there would be any ulterior motive of any sort. Again - I think that the advances I have seen in the breed in the past 2-years are remarkable here in the USA....but I think that the internal genetics of CLs are v-e-r-y tricky....JMO.

Well ive since been told due to my post that she hatched 200 this year and only kept 8. That type of numbers and only keeping 8 It would be really hard to weed out whos laying the bad eggs to only sell the good ones. Shes probably just like all of us still trying to figure it out.

 

[CibolaChooks]

I guess i just like to stir pots.

feel free to

me when its deserved.

 

[normanack]

Nah, you raise good points. It would be interesting (and probably impossible) to visit a whole bunch of well-known winning breeders to see what percentage of their birds meet a certain level of quality.

 

[KPenley]

Nah, you raise good points. It would be interesting (and probably impossible) to visit a whole bunch of well-known winning breeders to see what percentage of their birds meet a certain level of quality.

I think the previous comments bring up an excellent future article topic!
Please feel free to correct me anyone experienced in showmanship...but I think that most breeders only keep a few on their birds, obviously their best, to continue their lines. Unless you line breed very carefully there is going to be some discrepancy in offspring.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Found this egg in the run about two weeks ago, anyone seen an oddity like this? I understand finding half colored brown eggs since the color is "painted on," but how do you get a half colored (or at least more colored) blue egg?

 

[normanack]

My guess is it's faded where it was exposed to the sun . . . .?
Great blue, btw.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Nope it was laying on its side. Some of the UK breeders on FB said they see this once in a while, and just assume it is an uneven application of color during egg formation. The line is very striking though!

 

[cleansquared]

I wonder if the bloom thats put on at the end if it has any uv protection and if that were put on unevenly if that would account for the odd sun fadded look? Just a thought but you could test it and set an egg in the sun and see....

Found this egg in the run about two weeks ago, anyone seen an oddity like this? I understand finding half colored brown eggs since the color is "painted on," but how do you get a half colored (or at least more colored) blue egg?