Cream Legbars

[lonnyandrinda]

Thanks!

I'm a bit partial to that photo myself. Had someone ask me if I had taped/glued the chicks in to keep them in place long enough for the photo...

(The answer is no in case anyone wondered!) Just held my hands over them to calm them, then picked up the camera and took a few quick shots hoping for a good one!

 

[ChicKat]

Thanks!

I'm a bit partial to that photo myself. Had someone ask me if I had taped/glued the chicks in to keep them in place long enough for the photo...

(The answer is no in case anyone wondered!) Just held my hands over them to calm them, then picked up the camera and took a few quick shots hoping for a good one!

Aha, the photography trade secret is OUT...... (and I had heard put you hand above a chick, or chicken's head and they will freak out and cry "Hawk!!". :O)

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Haha well not just hold my hand over them, actually hold my hands on them in contact, to hold them in place in the carton. Settles them down so they won't immediately hop out. It's the best way I find to get chicks to hold still for a few seconds when I want a good photo op. But double sided tape might work pretty good, too!

 

[heirloomorps]

quick poll for all the breeders who have hatched and raised allot of CCL.​

Would we as a group say that the tail angles is the biggest issue with the CCL in america. Fallowed secondly​

by the comb then color.​

My number 3 rooster is the only one that has kept a correct tail angle. He is smaller and has the worst​

comb out of my 3 cream roos.​

The other Two with better form and combs have had their tails raise up to almost 90 now.​

They were fine but gradually have raised up.​

Im thinking i might have to keep number 3 around just in case i cant correct the tail angles with my first two pairings .​

Tail angle is by FAR my biggest issue... I finally have a pullet who has a decent tail angle so next year she gets bred back to her dad and I am hoping that pairing produces better tail angles. Neither are that perfect 45 though.

After that probably color, and then comb. I have a roo who seems to be getting more colorful and he started out looking cream.

 

[KPenley]

quick poll for all the breeders who have hatched and raised allot of CCL.

Would we as a group say that the tail angles is the biggest issue with the CCL in america. Fallowed secondly
by the comb then color.

My number 3 rooster is the only one that has kept a correct tail angle. He is smaller and has the worst
comb out of my 3 cream roos.

The other Two with better form and combs have had their tails raise up to almost 90 now.
They were fine but gradually have raised up.

Im thinking i might have to keep number 3 around just in case i cant correct the tail angles with my first two pairings .​

I've only hatched/raised 24, but my two cents...

My biggest shape issues are weight, lengthening the back, and straight combs. My boy Grey seems to be throwing good combs though, soI might be able to take that one off the list next year if his boys breed true.

Color issues are lack of cream, too much autosomal red, keeping the legs bright yellow during laying season.

 

[heirloomorps]

I am going to have pick of the roosters next year... hatched five eggs last week, three this week... one girl and seven roos. I already have a few older growing out. I REALLY like one of the ones I hatched this week though. He is more grey than the pictures look... he also looks more grey on my phone (how I took the photos!)

 

[Weirdness555]

Hello cream legbar people, we are starting with chickens in spring and we are going to get some cream legbar hens (1 or 2) as part of our small backyard flock. I want to get a rooster, and I think I am right in believing that if we had a cream legbar cock that he would pass on the blue egg gene to his offspring? I was very interested in the posts about breeding sex links as well, so we could breed to white/silver coloured hens to get sex links from a cream legbar roo?

Thanks

 

[ChicKat]

Hello cream legbar people, we are starting with chickens in spring and we are going to get some cream legbar hens (1 or 2) as part of our small backyard flock. I want to get a rooster, and I think I am right in believing that if we had a cream legbar cock that he would pass on the blue egg gene to his offspring? I was very interested in the posts about breeding sex links as well, so we could breed to white/silver coloured hens to get sex links from a cream legbar roo?

Thanks

Hi Weirdness,

You are right about the CL cockerel passing along the blue egg gene. The other half of the equation is what genes the hen throws into the mix. If the hen is a brown-egg layer, the resulting pullets from that pairing would most likely lay green or olive eggs.

For mine, I wish their eggs were bluer---they are pretty greenish-blue...but they are pretty. I'm thinking of ways to get more blue IN and to increase saturation in my flock's eggs.

ETA Of course CL cockerel + CL hen is the blue egg gene from both parents so the chicks from that pairing are expected to be Blue egg layers.

 

[ChicKat]

There was a discussion awhile back about CLs on eBay -- and I put in a LONG post about why not to buy from eBay. I can't find it now to PM the original poster - (and I have looked...I will put this in the other CL threads...too) --

Just saw some really nice photos on eBay of some really nice CLs and I bet that you COULD get good CLs on eBay -- and if the eBay seller happened to be geographically near you it could be an advantage.

so sorry for being so opinionated and closed minded. I have to say -- I got my first CLs from Craig's List and they happened to be my best. The last batch I got from Craig's List happened to be my worst CLs....but "you pays your money and you takes your chances..." (I also bought my very first chickens on Craig's List and one of them was the perfect chicken and one of the others was the sickest chicken in the state....so

I apologize to the person that I implied that nothing good can come from eBay -- I happened across this seller....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/12-TOFH-CRE...133?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e800c9905

I think the photo shows a very nice hen---and the rooster has six points does he not - oh you of sharper eyes than mine...??

So -- Apology to eBay sellers, and to the poster who asked. If I could find my old post, I would PM you -- but I think now-and-then BYC posts do go to electronic dust...

(but I think that they can reappear from that parallel Universe).....

 

[SallyinIndiana]

There was a discussion awhile back about CLs on eBay -- and I put in a LONG post about why not to buy from eBay. I can't find it now to PM the original poster - (and I have looked...I will put this in the other CL threads...too) --

Just saw some really nice photos on eBay of some really nice CLs and I bet that you COULD get good CLs on eBay -- and if the eBay seller happened to be geographically near you it could be an advantage.

so sorry for being so opinionated and closed minded. I have to say -- I got my first CLs from Craig's List and they happened to be my best. The last batch I got from Craig's List happened to be my worst CLs....but "you pays your money and you takes your chances..." (I also bought my very first chickens on Craig's List and one of them was the perfect chicken and one of the others was the sickest chicken in the state....so

I apologize to the person that I implied that nothing good can come from eBay -- I happened across this seller....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/12-TOFH-CRE...133?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1e800c9905

I think the photo shows a very nice hen---and the rooster has six points does he not - oh you of sharper eyes than mine...??

So -- Apology to eBay sellers, and to the poster who asked. If I could find my old post, I would PM you -- but I think now-and-then BYC posts do go to electronic dust...

(but I think that they can reappear from that parallel Universe).....

what do you think of these birds. They are from an ebay auction I was watching. They are not the ones I won eggs from.