Cream Legbars

[CibolaChooks]

A while back, there was a theory that to lessen the size of the comb (In addition to selection, of course) the more light and the earlier exposure to cold weather the smaller the comb.  As I recall it was someone from Netherlands that first posited the theory.  Remember that a lot of us said -- Okay-- hatch all the males in winter.  Have just hatched some and there are two boys... they will get to go outdoors real soon - (well once they are feathered....)    So in 5-6 months, I will know if there is something to it.  

last winter at the start of winter i had two roos starting to mature. The first real freeze my one roo got frostbite. His comb never got bigger after that. His brothers comb became 2 times bigger

 

[FridayYet]

Big Combs? Someone say BIG COMB?




They had their big growth spurt near POL when we had a week of 110 degree + weather.

 

[Ashdoes]

Wow! That is big. My hen combs are no where near that size.

 

[FridayYet]

Yeah - LOL Thing 1's comb started growing and kept growing like crazy. They are layers, so I don't have to worry about passing it on.

Thing 2's comb is big also, but not that big.





(She's pretty, but a mean little snot.)

 

[Laingcroft]

(She's pretty, but a mean little snot.)

LOL, I'd be a mean little snot too if I couldn't see!

HAPPY NEW YEAR and many happy hatches for 2014!

 

[ChicKat]

whoa!

I guess I second what Tru says.... what a pretty chicken. Nice photos too. Is there such a thing as comb-reduction-surgery. Do you think her personality would change? That hen has the type of Crest that I like on females.

Steen...So frostbite killed the growth of the comb...but the roosters were the same age & side-by-side? guess that would be a 50%-minus proof of the theory... but I think that they meant when the cockerels were really little - hence too small to get frostbite.

Happy 2014 everyone!!

 

[HaplessRunner]

Happy New Year and many happy hatches to all!!

 

[FridayYet]

LOL! Actually, they are pictures of two different birds. My first post, (#3273) is of "Thing 1". Her comb is the biggest, crest is much smaller, but she's a sweetie. "Thing 2" is the bird to the left of her in the picture, and her portraits are in post #3275. She's the Diva Boss, and picks on everyone else. She chases my olive-eggers around, and they are almost twice her size.

I couldn't tell them apart when I got them, so I called them Thing One and Thing Two for so long that it stuck. (My other one is crestless, and much more golden so is easy to identify.)

Luckily I live in a warm climate - Frostbite would probably dub them for me if I lived in the cold country!

Happy New Year to everyone from me and my funny-looking Legbars who keep me, and my friends, stocked with lovely blue eggs!

Edited for Typos

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Happy new year's- crossing my fingers that 2013 year of the cockerels means 2014 year of the pullet for me!

 

[TherryChicken]

Can't wait for the spring, for my girls to lay again