Cream Legbars

[dretd]

here are some pics of my 5 newly hatched chicks

Wow--Congrats on your hatch! The down color is outstanding on these chicks! I cat wait to see how they look as they mature!

 

[chicken pickin]

They are so cute!

A very nice hatch! I like all those down colors.

Wow--Congrats on your hatch! The down color is outstanding on these chicks! I cat wait to see how they look as they mature!

Thanks! Im excited to see them every time they hatch.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Getting ready to switch to numbered legbands on my Cream Legbars, ordered them yesterday. The colored bands are very useful BUT I have a large Cream Legbar flock and as I am starting to test breed for egg color and recessive white it is going to be hard to keep track of who is who. Was out yesterday looking at some of my birds growing out and am very pleased with a few Cream Legbar cockerels and pullets I have saved back. Too bad there's only so much room for roosters! Hubby agreed I need a bigger coop for Cream Legbars.

Probably can't tackle that until after the honey harvest though. Then I will have one extra pen- well not really as I am getting to the point I really need a bachelor pad for the extra roos!

Bracing myself for this next month- I am so not ready for the honey flow to start but the bees won't wait for me! We lost more hives than anticipated with this tough winter so there are icky moth-filled boxes to clear out and reset with new wax. Going to have to really cut down on my online time for a while but will still check in.

Rinda

 

[dretd]

I am pondering combs on the boys and was wondering what other cold-winter dwellers have experienced with their males.

I have 2 Cockerels that overwintered in my unheated barn. It got down to -17 as the lowest low with long stretched in the negative digits. I am sure the barn was warmer than -17 but like I said, it was unheated.

I did turn them out in early April with the main flock and it did get down to 26 with 4 inches of snow on the 13th.

I have just noticed that their combs, which had been thin and smooth--the typical large leghorn type comb, are now thicker and have developed calluses on the main blade and *may* have shrunken/drawn down a little bit.

Here is the one I could catch this morning. I was really photographing his ginormous crest and blade diversion to the side (which is a no-no, but will make pretty girls once he decides that girls aren't scary) and realized that up close the comb was thick and rough in addition to the white calluses on the blade.

So I thought I would toss out the question for others to see if their rooster's combs are thickening up and developing a callus instead of becoming frostbitten in the cold?

 

[Ruralpearls]

here are some pics of my 5 newly hatched chicks

Only one roo?!?! How lucky are you!!!! They are adorable!

 

[chicken pickin]

This is how my Male faired this winter, he got frostbite and lost half his blade

Before Winter


During Winter


After Winter

 

[chicken pickin]

Only one roo?!?! How lucky are you!!!! They are adorable!

Yes one male in this batch! Im happy for the male since I would like to choose a new male to be my main breeder, and then also choose a second male as my backup.

I have 6 other young males growing out also, they are about 7weeks old.

I am also happy for these 4 girls I need to start choosing a few more girls to ad to the flock also.

I have 4 more CL eggs under a broody due to hatch in a week.

 

[DCchicken]

here are some pics of my 5 newly hatched chicks

The last female in the first picture looks like trouble. She will not fall in line with the others. I predict she is going to be a fence jumper and you are going to spend a lot of time chasing her down. I have one of those. She refuse to lay in the box and jumps the fence and lays eggs under a bush. Thinking back she was always jumping out of the brooder and would not pose for pictures. Keep an eye on that trouble maker.

 

[nicalandia]

The last female in the first picture looks like trouble. She will not fall in line with the others. I predict she is going to be a fence jumper and you are going to spend a lot of time chasing her down. I have one of those. She refuse to lay in the box and jumps the fence and lays eggs under a bush. Thinking back she was always jumping out of the brooder and would not pose for pictures. Keep an eye on that trouble maker.

I Loled...

 

[blackbirds13]

here are some pics of my 5 newly hatched chicks

Congrats! Great odds.