Cream Legbars

[enola]

I bred my CCL rooster to brown leghorn hens. The eggs have started hatching. I have 3 chicks hatched and dried off. Two of them are a light shade of yellow with beautiful chipmunk stripes and DARK eyeliner. The third chick is not pretty, it is a muddy, taupy sort of color, with VERY faint marks on it's back that MAY be chipmunk stripes, with no eye liner.

I know that putting the Legbar rooster over the Leghorn hens will not produce sex links or auto sexing. But this seems strange to me. I am going to band them and see what they grow up to be.

Any ideas? Hoping Flying monkey chimes in....

 

[GaryDean26]

Photos?

 

[enola]

My phone will not load pictures. I would have to text them to some one so they could see them.

 

[DoubleMM]

Well text away

 

[DoubleMM]

Some of the new ones

 

[sol2go]

Some of the new ones

Cute pics, great eye-liner! My husband didn't notice the chicks, just the Greek "flag"...

 

[sol2go]

Reaching back to the POL discussion, the new line of CL chicks I hatched from a breeder in Texas have begun to lay at 18 weeks.

I was not in a hurry but both the FBCM and the CL chicks are laying before 20 weeks; maybe it's the California climate? =)

 

[caychris]

One of my boys seems to have curled feathers on the upper portion of the wings. Not many but they definitely curl up almost like a frizzle

Is this a trait that shows up in them periodically related to the cresting?

 

[Metella]

A crested Frizzle ? People will love that

My 3 CCLB are only a few months old - looking nice and healthy .... but the eggs I hatched them from (mailed to me so I didn't pick them out) were what I would call pastel GREEN ....

I was so disappointed. and the sender insisted they were blue. I am not color blind

So I am wondering if this is like calling purple flowers BLUE in the gardening world ? Because true blue is hard to come by and there is wishful thinking? I like the birds .... but have to say I had a wash of disappointment when opening that box of eggs and seeing the same coloring my EE's lay .... now my EE's lay a more solid green color also - they do have more of a variety of shades ...

Can any of you speak to the coloring of the shells? I would never in my wildest imagining call the eggs blue -but they came out true auto-sexing and now that they are teens - they look exactly like CCLB should ....

Edit - Oh - I want to be clear - the sender of these eggs was sincere !!! They were not trying to slip in substandard eggs - they really felt these were blue and I really felt they were a green tint. I've got NO beef with the sender.

 

[DCchicken]

A crested Frizzle ? People will love that

My 3 CCLB are only a few months old - looking nice and healthy .... but the eggs I hatched them from (mailed to me so I didn't pick them out) were what I would call pastel GREEN ....

I was so disappointed. and the sender insisted they were blue. I am not color blind

So I am wondering if this is like calling purple flowers BLUE in the gardening world ? Because true blue is hard to come by and there is wishful thinking? I like the birds .... but have to say I had a wash of disappointment when opening that box of eggs and seeing the same coloring my EE's lay .... now my EE's lay a more solid green color also - they do have more of a variety of shades ...

Can any of you speak to the coloring of the shells? I would never in my wildest imagining call the eggs blue -but they came out true auto-sexing and now that they are teens - they look exactly like CCLB should ....

Edit - Oh - I want to be clear - the sender of these eggs was sincere !!! They were not trying to slip in substandard eggs - they really felt these were blue and I really felt they were a green tint. I've got NO beef with the sender.

The U.K. standard as well as the APA proposed standard allow for blue or green eggs. You can see the APA proposed standard here: http://www.creamlegbarclub.com/29-d...p-revision-1-replaced-late-2013-by-revision-2

If you want pure blue eggs, try the Arkansas Blue or Araucana breeds. They only have blue eggs. True blue eggs can look almost white if they lack the brown tint (what makes the green).