Cream Legbars

[nicalandia]

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White leghorns have sexlinked dermal inhibitor preventing any green/slate shanks,and Legars also have sex linked Id

 

[ki4got]

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another thing you can do is trap nesting, if you're around to check on them through the day. record each girl (banding helps) and her eggs... this way you can keep track of egg size and production for each hen, and those that lay better/bigger eggs get to reproduce while the slackers get culled.

 

[DCchicken]

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

Second, that is a super cute chick!

Oh it gets worse..I am up to 17 different breeds including the rare Marsh Daisy, Ayam Cemani, and Svart Hona. My family thinks I have gone off the reservation.

Chicken math. That's all I am going to say. And it all started with the gateway chicken "Cream Legbars".

 

[SlipsWife]

Oh it gets worse..I am up to 17 different breeds including the rare Marsh Daisy, Ayam Cemani, and Svart Hona. My family thinks I have gone off the reservation.

Chicken math. That's all I am going to say. And it all started with the gateway chicken "Cream Legbars".

I am now extremely jealous!

Cream Legbars are my only non hatchery chickens right now. My attempts at incubation have been a huge failure, from shipped eggs and home eggs. Out of 3 sets of shipped eggs one failure was from the shipment but the other 2 there's development but they don't hatch. I guess in a way its ok that incubating isn't working out or I'd be going crazy wanting to hatch at least a dozen of each!

 

[TherryChicken]

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".

yeah I see what your saying now

 

[TherryChicken]

another thing you can do is trap nesting, if you're around to check on them through the day. record each girl (banding helps) and her eggs... this way you can keep track of egg size and production for each hen, and those that lay better/bigger eggs get to reproduce while the slackers get culled.

well my girls are already spoken for so wont be keeping them.

 

[TherryChicken]

So off subject. If I breed my white leghorn rooster wi th my barred, white, and silver leghorns. Im going to get all white chicks?

 

[dretd]

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another thing you can do is trap nesting, if you're around to check on them through the day. record each girl (banding helps) and her eggs... this way you can keep track of egg size and production for each hen, and those that lay better/bigger eggs get to reproduce while the slackers get culled.

I have been thinking about figuring out a system that would track the hen's activity including when they are in the nest and if they lay and egg, what time it was etc. Maybe using RFID at the threshold of the nest boxes. Hubby is a propeller head and said he would wire up the coop to monitor temp and humidity remotely calling it the chicken.net. Of course he hasn't doen anything so I am adding on to the needs of my hens

I was thinking if I could convince him that there are other people that would use a chicken monitoring network (not video, but something that would actually track and monitor the chickens and give me data) that he might be more inspired to work on it.
Anyone else interested in a robust monitoring system for their Cream Legbars?

 

[Kalalyn21]

I was wondering, what would happen to the creme legbar if I bred to the white leghorn?

I have one that I hatched from someone elses eggs. Turned out opposite of what her others look like that are this cross. My has barring like a legbar and lays white eggs. I will take of pic of her tonight and post it

 

[Roo007]

I received three bielefelder pullets one roo five creamlegbar pullets four sweedish flowerhens and they sent five i sbars i think by accident iwas so happy with greenfire farms they were fantastic and the birds are super healthy does anybody have bielefelders how are they producing thamks