Cream Legbars

[1muttsfan]

I try to limit myself to 2 breeds of interest, and have 2 coop/pens to keep them in. It makes it easier that the CL's lay blue eggs, as the roosters can run with the laying flock as well (they all lay brown/cream eggs, so I can save eggs if I want) and pen 2 has the Swedish Flower Hens ( future breeding project, they are all young) and my 2 silkies. I have found that you can keep a few roosters together, as long as they have grown up together, are healthy, and there is plenty of space. First sign of trouble, though, and they have to be kept apart.

 

[ChicKat]

Nice photography. Love that duck peeping in the hardware cloth in the first picture. Love the serenity of hen above....

 

[KPenley]

I have two breeding pens, although one is too young for eggs yet, with two separate breeding lines in each pen. Each pen has 1 roo and up to 5 hens. I also have a separate freezer camp for unruly roosters and spares. They get along fine since there are no girls around. One of my spares looks like he will grow out better than his father, so he will most likely replace him soon. It also looks like some of the pen 1 pullets might be cream

, and if so they will replace their mothers. Next year I hope to set up pen 3, and start rotating roosters yearly. The rest are given away, sold, or eaten.

 

[chicken pickin]

I picked up my 2 new pullets today. They are roughtly 10-12weeks old. I hope I picked good choices. I couldn't decide on which ones to bring home.


Not the best pics but I had just gotten them home

 

[ChicKat]

I picked up my 2 new pullets today. They are roughtly 10-12weeks old. I hope I picked good choices. I couldn't decide on which ones to bring home.


Not the best pics but I had just gotten them home

Exciting news, congratulations on your pullets. I will bet that readers here will weigh-in that they don't have golden showing. :O) -- Part of it is probably your lighting for the picture too.

 

[chicken pickin]

They don't have gold. They are correct cream coloring.

 

[ChicKat]

They don't have gold. They are correct cream coloring.

Oh yes, what I meant was that their sides are very silver-gray and not taupe like many females are...sorry I didn't make it clear I'm not talking about the female's hackle feathers. The reason I thought that the lighting in the photo may be a bit cloudy or a cool temperature lighting as opposed to natural sunlight is the lightness of their legs and beaks. Please don't think I meant that you had the wrong coloration. :O)

 

[chicken pickin]

I am so new to this breed sorry I didn't understand. So did I not look for the right things when picking them out? I was looking for a less colorful pullet because my rooster has just a little too much color, I was trying to balance out his flaws. Maybe I didn't pick right!? Oh Boy!

 

[GaryDean26]

this question is for any breed. If you remove hens from a rooster. How many days collection will the eggs be fertile? I hope that makes scense

A show breeder that lives near me only runs her roosters with the hens one day a week so that the boys don't break feather and make them unsuitable to show.

Another solutions is aprons. Below is a snapshot of our well dressed Basque Hens.

 

[chicken pickin]

Here is a few more pics