Cream Legbars

[lonnyandrinda]

Here's a fun comparison- my rooster Charlie and my new boy (his son) side by side. Within a few weeks Charlie will be out of the breeding pen and I will ONLY be using this new boy. You can see here he has better type, better color, and a better tail. Excited to see what the next generation will bring! Just goes to prove IF WE ARE SELECTIVE we can make great strides with the breed within just a few generations!

 

[ChicKat]

*waves*

Hello. I am excited about acquiring my first legbar cockerel with hatching eggs on the way. I was hoping to lurk around and learn more about the breed. It (and rhodebars, marans, and d'uccles) fascinates me. This thread comes highly recommended by a fellow BYCer.

Yea Zonoma--

Congratulations on the cockerel and good luck with the hatch.....

 

[ChicKat]

Here's a fun comparison- my rooster Charlie and my new boy (his son) side by side. Within a few weeks Charlie will be out of the breeding pen and I will ONLY be using this new boy. You can see here he has better type, better color, and a better tail. Excited to see what the next generation will bring! Just goes to prove IF WE ARE SELECTIVE we can make great strides with the breed within just a few generations!

Nice photos, good for comparison.... Charlie's son looks like he has a better yellow leg color too, (and I realize that it could just be the light)--- but then again, Charlie is no slouch. So he's retired now huh? ;O)

 

[KPenley]

Great work Rinda! Will you let me know when Charlie Jr is called up for duty?

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Nice photos, good for comparison.... Charlie's son looks like he has a better yellow leg color too, (and I realize that it could just be the light)--- but then again, Charlie is no slouch. So he's retired now huh? ;O)

You are right- Charlies legs are quite washed out looking- it is not the lighting in the photo. I am just about standing-on-my-head excited about how nice his son is. The other son that is almost as nice just went home with Curtis this week- so now we will both have nice cream roosters! Yippee!

Great work Rinda! Will you let me know when Charlie Jr is called up for duty?

Yes ma'am you are on my list!

 

[ChicKat]

You are right- Charlies legs are quite washed out looking- it is not the lighting in the photo. I am just about standing-on-my-head excited about how nice his son is. The other son that is almost as nice just went home with Curtis this week- so now we will both have nice cream roosters! Yippee!

Yes ma'am you are on my list!

I'm coming up on 1-year of ownership--- I think it was March last year when I got hold of Cream Legbars. It is awesome how far this breed has come in just 1-year. And the Cream Legbar Community has learned SO much. wow.

 

[nicalandia]

Here's a fun comparison- my rooster Charlie and my new boy (his son) side by side. Within a few weeks Charlie will be out of the breeding pen and I will ONLY be using this new boy. You can see here he has better type, better color, and a better tail. Excited to see what the next generation will bring! Just goes to prove IF WE ARE SELECTIVE we can make great strides with the breed within just a few generations!

excelent, thats ho a cream legbar roo should look(in color)..his shank color is also correct

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Thank you. He now has a name- my daughter has named him Hugger after a favorite BCM cockerel we had to rehome because of color issues. AND I saw him mounting a hen today so WOOHOO time to pull Charlie boy out!

 

[KPenley]

So mid March perhaps???

 

[lonnyandrinda]

So mid March perhaps???

That's right!!! I am NOT going to pull Charlie out for a few days though, got to wait for this snow to clear up so I can finish the bachelor pen...

OK here are my three boys from Sunday/Monday's hatch. I have the left (gray) and right (hint of brown) ones banded to watch as they grow out. Anyone else seeing boys this color? 70% of my boys are like the one in the middle- very dark. I'm assuming those will grow out with more chestnut in the saddle/shoulders. Hoping at least one of these two light ones will grow out like Hugger, my nice boy, as they are his brothers. If they do I may be onto something!