Cream Legbars

[TherryChicken]

Im just trying to find a way to get the creme legbar a more of a productive layer and I have a white leghorn

 

[jerryse]

Im just trying to find a way to get the creme legbar a more of a productive layer and I have a white leghorn

Start where you are with what you have was the title of a little book by Ralph Sturgeon . It is out of print now but is still good advice . There are many on here you will advise you if needed .

 

[sol2go]

Start where you are with what you have was the title of a little book by Ralph Sturgeon . It is out of print now but is still good advice . There are many on here you will advise you if needed .

I was thinking of that concept, thanks for the book reference.

 

[sol2go]

Im just trying to find a way to get the creme legbar a more of a productive layer and I have a white leghorn

I was thinking about other comments regarding feed...
One time someone posted that they found they had a thief in the hen house?
Mine have been productive layers, but some are clearly better than others; mine are from atleast 3 different sources, although all trails return to GFF.

 

[ChicKat]

Me too, I'm really lucky to have good layers fin my Cream Legbars--- had some that I got from Craig's list that weren't good layers, and they are all long gone now.

 

[TherryChicken]

Start where you are with what you have was the title of a little book by Ralph Sturgeon . It is out of print now but is still good advice . There are many on here you will advise you if needed .

thank you

 

[DCchicken]

Im just trying to find a way to get the creme legbar a more of a productive layer and I have a white leghorn

In case you are wondering what a Dominant White and a Cream Legbar cross would look like, I just happened to hatch one this morning. Only in this case it was a Cream Legbar roo crossed with a White Bresse hen. But the chick should look the same. In case you are wondering what this is, it would have blue (or willow green legs), white feathers, and lay a blue-green egg. Yours would look similar but would have yellow legs. Notice that the autosexing barring is broken by the Dominant White. When the rest of them hatch I will be able to test to see if my Cream Legbar have the fast feathering gene which would allow me to feather sex the chicks.

 

[TherryChicken]

In case you are wondering what a Dominant White and a Cream Legbar cross would look like, I just happened to hatch one this morning. Only in this case it was a Cream Legbar roo crossed with a White Bresse hen. But the chick should look the same. In case you are wondering what this is, it would have blue (or willow green legs), white feathers, and lay a blue-green egg. Yours would look similar but would have yellow legs. Notice that the autosexing barring is broken by the Dominant White. When the rest of them hatch I will be able to test to see if my Cream Legbar have the fast feathering gene which would allow me to feather sex the chicks.

thank you very much for the photo, yeah no I dont want to change the legbars, just add in more egg production.

 

[DCchicken]

thank you very much for the photo, yeah no I dont want to change the legbars, just add in more egg production.

That's exactly why I said it would be a lot of work. Once you bring in Dominant White, you have to be very rigorous in tagging chicks and crossing back multiple times. So if you want to increase egg production, I would either look for a line of Cream Legbars that have been breed for high egg production (as opposed to be "the perfect cream") or cross to a gold or brown leghorn.

Or just keep around one more Cream Legbar. Having one extra pullet would be far easier than breeding multiple generations (and housing all the offspring) in an attempt to increase egg production. Plus you could give the extra one the name "Plus" or "Spare".

 

[SlipsWife]

In case you are wondering what a Dominant White and a Cream Legbar cross would look like, I just happened to hatch one this morning. Only in this case it was a Cream Legbar roo crossed with a White Bresse hen. But the chick should look the same. In case you are wondering what this is, it would have blue (or willow green legs), white feathers, and lay a blue-green egg. Yours would look similar but would have yellow legs. Notice that the autosexing barring is broken by the Dominant White. When the rest of them hatch I will be able to test to see if my Cream Legbar have the fast feathering gene which would allow me to feather sex the chicks.

First, Cream Legbars AND White Bresse, I'm officially jealous...

Second, that is a super cute chick!