Cream Legbars

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Since it is supposed to stay above 30 for the lows over the next week or so, I finally moved my legbars outside to their breeding pens! The hens are loving the dry dirt under the covered part of the runs. Now time to start saving up eggs to hatch! I have a total of 6 hens per rooster, a few are just random hens for sexlinks which caused me panic as I was setting pens up, the first thing I thought was "OMG, how will I be able to tell the eggs apart!?!?!" then I realized that the legbars will lay blue and the other extra hens lay white/brown. I'm sure everyone has had one of those moments before. Even with my legbar project birds I can tell the eggs apart. The project birds lay a nice clear blue egg while the pure legbars lay a greenish egg, well at least my birds from line A and C lay greenish anyway...

 

[1muttsfan]

I had exactly the same egg color thought - I am going to have to rearrange my pens, as I have Basques in one, and will have CL's in the other pen. That means that all my random blue egg layers will have to move to the EO pen and the extra brown egg layers will have to go in with the CL's. Think I will wait until the mud season is over here though - and right now we still have 2 feet of snow on the ground.

 

[ChicKat]

WOOHOO!!!

X2 --Nice eggs!!

 

[ChicKat]

My pullet has laid her 5th today...so she is no slouch.

The eggs are really definitely mint green-ish. They are pretty, and it is a nice saturation -- It really IS oac151 and as Anne had said somewhere, the colors fall on page 3 - which mostly has green-ish swatches or blue-green, teal for the dark ones. I wish I had oac213, 214 from my birds...and flip the page to page 4 - and get oac256 or oac270- maybe sometime in the future.

For people without the color charts...it seems the higher the number, the bluer - up to oac298 which seems to be a grayish-lavender. If the background color that this printing is showing upon on BYC forum is a light blue - it is kind of like oac235 on my monitor.

I guess I need to go to the SOP thread and put in a plug for green eggs in the SOP.

 

[sol2go]

Thanks everyone for their comments regarding hatching pullet eggs vs hens eggs.

I committed to a CCL rooster instead of an Ameraucana because I thought the eggs from this group/breed would be bluer.
I feel a little discouraged as I read the comments re: greenish eggs, but the birds themselves have such endearing personalities that I refocus my enthusiasm.

And now I'm waiting waiting waiting for the CCL pullets to lay something I can compare to my Buff Ameraucana...which brings to mind another comparison: size. Does anyone weigh their eggs in grams? I don't have much to compare to, but the Ameraucana pullet eggs range between 45 and 48 grams, rarely 50. Because of the Legbar influence, I thought the CCL's would weigh in at about 60 grams?

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Just ran to weigh this week's eggs for you, I've been meaning to see that myself, and here are this week's weights:

57.3
59.1
56.6
58.5
55.3
57.3
58.1

For an average of 57.45. I have heard people throw 60 grams around though. Also just noticed I don't have any pullet eggs this week so far... unless my pullet eggs jumped to regular size with no in between? Or maybe they just stopped laying because of the rain and the cold this week. Hm. But I did figure out today which hen is laying my prettiest, most saturated blue- and it's my favorite hen!

Once Charlie's genes are out of the picture I am DEFINITELY keeping some of her chicks to raise up for next year! She and Hugger should make some GORGEOUS babies!

Rinda

 

[dretd]

Just ran to weigh this week's eggs for you, I've been meaning to see that myself, and here are this week's weights:

57.3
59.1
56.6
58.5
55.3
57.3
58.1

For an average of 57.45. I have heard people throw 60 grams around though. Also just noticed I don't have any pullet eggs this week so far... unless my pullet eggs jumped to regular size with no in between? Or maybe they just stopped laying because of the rain and the cold this week. Hm. But I did figure out today which hen is laying my prettiest, most saturated blue- and it's my favorite hen!

Once Charlie's genes are out of the picture I am DEFINITELY keeping some of her chicks to raise up for next year! She and Hugger should make some GORGEOUS babies!

Rinda

Excellent--that's a legit large egg! Yay about the pretty blue egg! Do you use the oac color chart as some others have been? If so, what color does it compare to?

 

[ChicKat]

Thanks everyone for their comments regarding hatching pullet eggs vs hens eggs.

I committed to a CCL rooster instead of an Ameraucana because I thought the eggs from this group/breed would be bluer.
I feel a little discouraged as I read the comments re: greenish eggs, but the birds themselves have such endearing personalities that I refocus my enthusiasm.

And now I'm waiting waiting waiting for the CCL pullets to lay something I can compare to my Buff Ameraucana...which brings to mind another comparison: size. Does anyone weigh their eggs in grams? I don't have much to compare to, but the Ameraucana pullet eggs range between 45 and 48 grams, rarely 50. Because of the Legbar influence, I thought the CCL's would weigh in at about 60 grams?

If you ever have the need to compare the ounces/grams - here is a chart (about the 2nd paragraph down on the page) I started putting things that I wanted to reference in a BYC page.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/charts-and-quotes

 

[lonnyandrinda]

If you ever have the need to compare the ounces/grams - here is a chart (about the 2nd paragraph down on the page) I started putting things that I wanted to reference in a BYC page.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/charts-and-quotes

That's cool, thanks!

OK took some time and finished my OAC Chart to Ameraucana Chart comparision- will share in a minute. For now, this week's eggs are oac151 (D3) from Momma my favorite hen- a definite well saturated blue, most are oac 123 (C9), and one is even lighter, a little lighter than oac 81 (most comparable to D6).

 

[lonnyandrinda]

All right please feel free to double check my chart if you have both of these color charts. I thought this would be convenient to have because some people only have one or the other. Let me know if there are any errors- lighting and tired eyes may have affected my selection but I did my best! https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AooSdOwP3pJ6dF9ONHdfUVUwQ3BOVDZnNnVIWDlFd3c&usp=sharing