Cream Legbars

[KPenley]

Congratulations DA! I hope you have a great hatch!

 

[blackbirds13]

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...978.1073741825.369442376492650&type=1&theater

Greefire's posting of a Rees rooster today.

 

[Chick Swing]

I got my first blue egg today!! Finally, she is 32 weeks old!

Yeah!

.. Congratulations!

My CL Roo is still working on his Doodle, He is so proud of him self....Sure hope he has a beautiful Doodle. My othe two roosters of differnt breeds both have beautiful crows. Are Cl known for nice crows or is it an individual thing?

 

[blackbirds13]

Your Boys are looking really nice. I love the coloring on them. Its good you have so many options for next season. I like the one you have the pink band on.

Thanks K, a second opinion is really helpful whether positive of negative. I do like pink band also (there he's named 'Pinky"). He actually was in my cull pen for a bit. I had banded him because I was still watching him. When I went to make the 'final cut' in there I took a good look at him and realized he was a keeper for sure so he's in the bachelor pen. The others just had flaws I did not want to carry forward or just were not up to where these three are, even though these boys all have some real issues. I will make one more cut I think since I won't be keeping the eldest boy in there. I'm happy with the coloring I have so far, not perfect but better than their sires and they seem larger which is nice; and all I really hope for is just a bit of improvement each year. I'd love to do one or two more hatches this year but with winter just on the horizon I'll have to wait till next spring since I only brood outdoors after the first week as I hate having chicks in the house - the dust and smell are too much for me and I turn into a wacko trying to clean up daily.
I would love to keep the 3 Cream boys in there (and Macbeth maybe), all 3 Marans (but I'd keep just the 2 Splash if it came down to it) and the White Sport Legbar. Not sure if the hubby is in for 7 or 8 roosters overwinter.... guess we'll find out.

 

[CibolaChooks]

This is the guy that just seems darker overall And this is lil' bit. Way too young at this point. I'm holding onto Macbeth for next season also... Not sure how I'm getting all these boys past the husband. I fear I have some tough decisions ahead. SullyD - Congrats on the eggs! It is hard to photo for true color in most aspects for the web as even each screen setting will have an affect but if they are comparable to Ameraucanas that is nice.

I really like the dark ones tail. I think it has allot of potential .I like that the base is small

 

[blackbirds13]

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I will have to take a closer look at that. He does have some good qualities but I'm leery of how dark his barring is. I'm going to let him be for a bit and then decide what to do with him.
I looked at the photo and don't think the Rees rooster is white white. If you look carefully at the saddle you will see some chestnut colored barring with the gray and white barring and the wing bay has just a slight touch of color. At least that's what I see when I look or zoom in. His ear lobes look worrisome and his comb maybe just barely passes the SOP for not being forward of the beak I think.
I'm interested to see what they look like in person. I'm sure they won't be 'show quality' but neither were my Bev Davis Marans....

. I don't think GFF breeds with that aspect in mind I think proliferation maybe??

I use a second laptop when I am on BYC and it has a really bad habit of skipping the mouse around the screen and I'll end up typing the end of one sentence right in the middle of a former one.... very aggravating. It also will just delete what ever I've typed randomly....

but it's my forum computer as I keep my new baby for business and art stuff.

 

[Laingcroft]

I will have to take a closer look at that. He does have some good qualities but I'm leery of how dark his barring is. I'm going to let him be for a bit and then decide what to do with him.
I looked at the photo and don't think the Rees rooster is white white. If you look carefully at the saddle you will see some chestnut colored barring with the gray and white barring and the wing bay has just a slight touch of color. At least that's what I see when I look or zoom in. His ear lobes look worrisome and his comb maybe just barely passes the SOP for not being forward of the beak I think.
I'm interested to see what they look like in person. I'm sure they won't be 'show quality' but neither were my Bev Davis Marans....

. I don't think GFF breeds with that aspect in mind I think proliferation maybe??
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The cream gene only affects red, not black. Your boy doesn't look too dark to me, at least on my computer screen. Usually the barring is darker when the cock (and all hens) carry one barring gene -- which shouldn't occur with a purebred CCL cockerel.

 

[ChicKat]

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The cream gene only affects red, not black. Your boy doesn't look too dark to me, at least on my computer screen. Usually the barring is darker when the cock (and all hens) carry one barring gene -- which shouldn't occur with a purebred CCL cockerel.

Hey Tru---

If a CL cockerel only had one barring gene - the chicks wouldn't be autosexing would they?

 

[blackbirds13]

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My oldest male and Alpha (F1) is dark barred. Niclandia brought up a conversation on there being barring that was lighter and barring that was darker. In my boys the barring on this one is darker than on the others. I'm interested to see how the rest of him turns out as he matures. His overall tone is the same darker gray barring as the Alpha male. It may be that the barred areas are thicker that give it this look but his overall tone is darker than the others. The barring on the oldest Juvenile is lighter but more mottled on his breast than I'd like but the overall tone is lighter than the Alpha's when looked at side by side. It's very evident when you see them all together. I only have adult Cream Legbars so I am not concerned about him not being purebred.

 

[KPenley]

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The cream gene only affects red, not black.

Can I ask why you made this statement? Any reading material would be greatly appreciated. In my limited research on the diluting effects of ig, I learned that cream is incapable of diluting red.