Cream Legbars

[Trooper Man]

This may be an off the wall question but what is a cream legbar exactly?

 

[chicken pickin]

The Cream Legbar is an autosexing type of chicken. This means that you can tell the sex of the chick at hatch, and they breed true. The Cream Legbar originated as a cross between Brown Leghorns and Barred Rock with some Araucana blood in them. This is reflected in the blue eggs that they lay. The egg colour is usually blue though sometimes the egg is green(green eggs are not ideal).

 

[enola]

They have a single comb lke a leghorn.

I think they are the only single comb breed that lays blue eggs.

 

[KPenley]

Sweetdreamin, I think your cockerel is growing in well!

Trooper Man, Cream Legbars are a rare breed, developed by Professors RC Punnett and M Pease, that was standardized in Great Britain about 60 years ago. Technically there were about 7 breeds that went into creating an auto sexing, blue egg laying, crested and cream chicken. They are light to medium sized large fowl, lay 200+ eggs a year, and are excellent foragers.
They were imported to the USA in 2010, and are now in the introductory process of being recognized by the a APA. I hope that helps.

Edited to fix date

 

[Trooper Man]

Thank you all for the replies and info

 

[ChicKat]

They were imported to the USA in 2011

Actually it was 2010.

 

[GaryDean26]

Actually it was 2010.

Yep..2010.

here is the new boy, he has lots of color! We went ahead and de wormed him right away too. 2 more days of deworming. Then stop for 10 days then once more. Then I have my others to deworm

He looks BIG.

 

[TherryChicken]

Yep..2010.



He looks BIG.

hes a decent sized boy, but looks bigger in picture

 

[Rancher3535]

hes a decent sized boy, but looks bigger in picture

Have you weighed him yet? After 30 years of raising birds I finally got a scale and started to weigh each bird to see how close they came to the standard. Some were right on and others were kind of deceptive. Looked bigger then they weighed.

Rob

 

[Triplell]

I plan on weighing mine to day. Then I will be seperating the cockerels as they are starting to fight. Then I will start weighing weekly.