Cream Legbars

[GaryDean26]

I have three Cream Legbar cockerels on the field with the bachelor grow out group. They are 5 months old and they have to answer to the 6 month old Marans cockerels. They don't crow very much.

 

[ChicKat]

Does anyone elses CLs NEVER stop crowing? lol. It never stops all day long one crow after another continuously until just before dark and its higher pitched than my other males. Makes me cringe when I hear him

lol I hope neighbors don't start complaining

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Wonder if it is a population count thing -- I only have 3 adult Lebar roosters here right now - and one of them is under the weather - It's totally quiet. (except at dawn)--- or could it be an unsorted pecking order thing - and then once pecking order is set in place....they don't need to discuss it as much???

 

[GaryDean26]

Dominant cockerels in a flock will usually attach lower ranking cockerels if they catch them crowing. My Legbars boys are fast and they can jump over a 4 foot fence without ever opening their wings when they are motivated, but they have been caught enough times by the Mammoth Marans that I can't imagine they would want to test the limits with crowing during the middle of the day. They keep their distance in the 1/2 acre open field and keep their crowing to a minimum.

 

[chicken pickin]

I keep all my adult and semi adult males in seperate fully enclosed pens. So they don't have actual access to each other. When by chance they are all out and about together my Marans boy is top dog and the CL run with tails between their legs lol. Just the older CL won't give crowing a rest.

 

[ChicKat]

I keep all my adult and semi adult males in seperate fully enclosed pens. So they don't have actual access to each other. When by chance they are all out and about together my Marans boy is top dog and the CL run with tails between their legs lol. Just the older CL won't give crowing a rest.

Haha - he wants to challenge the Marans to a crowing contest. Just after I wrote that it was quiet - I went out there and they all started in - so there you have it - I spoke way too soon.

 

[chicken pickin]

Im a little bummed. I just noticed that the cockerel I was debating on keeping due to his long back and low tail angle seems to have a separation in the back of his comb, it separates into two side points at the very back. This should be an automatic cull correct?

 

[dretd]

Im a little bummed. I just noticed that the cockerel I was debating on keeping due to his long back and low tail angle seems to have a separation in the back of his comb, it separates into two side points at the very back. This should be an automatic cull correct?

Oh, man! Why does it always seem like the best boys have some flaws that makes them unsuitable fro breeding? My best boy from the first hatch has feather stubs so no girls for him. At least I could ID him at hatch.

Those extra points to the side are called Side Sprigs and they are a DQ in all single combed breeds. Also DQ's for single combs include Lopped (where the comb flops/folds over to one side so that the lop occurs below the horizontal where the base of the points starts) and a Split Comb (where the blade divides perpendicularly). There are drawings of these DQ's in the APA SOP. It is recommended to not breed any birds that have a DQ feature. I believe that they are DQ's becasue they are especially hard to remove from the flock once they are established and thus they are penalized at the show as an unsuitable bird--DQ.

Sorry--I really liked him. too!

 

[chicken pickin]

Oh, man! Why does it always seem like the best boys have some flaws that makes them unsuitable fro breeding? My best boy from the first hatch has feather stubs so no girls for him. At least I could ID him at hatch.

Those extra points to the side are called Side Sprigs and they are a DQ in all single combed breeds. Also DQ's for single combs include Lopped (where the comb flops/folds over to one side so that the lop occurs below the horizontal where the base of the points starts) and a Split Comb (where the blade divides perpendicularly). There are drawings of these DQ's in the APA SOP. It is recommended to not breed any birds that have a DQ feature. I believe that they are DQ's becasue they are especially hard to remove from the flock once they are established and thus they are penalized at the show as an unsuitable bird--DQ.

Sorry--I really liked him. too!

Thanks.

Cull day is next week. He is officially on the list now.

 

[GoodwinFarm]

This is a long shot, but I don't get these chances often. My husband, who puts up with my chickens, is driving from Milwaukee to Philadelphia today with return Sunday and Monday. He said if I could find someone alng his route to sell me a trio of cream legbars, he will put them in a crate and bring them home. Anyone here willng to sell me a trio?

 

[dheltzel]

I am surprised at how different my 2 young cockerels look. I need to decide which one to use for breeding.The lighter one (on the right) is larger and clearly dominant, but I like the extra color on the left one.
Are the cockerels supposed to be colored more like one of these? I didn't hatch these, so I don't know what the down color looked like.