Cream Legbars

[chicken pickin]

My CCL babies are finally here!

Sooooo cute!!!! Congrats on the new chicks!

 

[Red Banks]

Thank you both! I am excited!

 

[Exotica]

My CCL babies are finally here!

Oh my gosh!! They are dreamy!

Where did you get your chicks from?!

This is what I had envisioned when I ordered mine. If you don't mind, please take lots of pictures to update us on their growth!

So Kaylee from SHR texted me today and said that she would be coming down near my hour. I asked her to bring me a Splash Isbar and another Rees chick
but EMPHASIZED that I wanted a crisp, unbroken line going down it's head. We'll see what she brings me! As always, I'll be back to update!

Cream Legbars have officially became my favorite breed and I attribute that to all of you. This is the thread I'm the most excited to check and most active on.

 

[GaryDean26]

Yeah! Maybe I was just a bit too hard on them. It's so easy to get so excited because everyone has such amazing birds! Your chicks are just gorgeous! Are you selling any? Hehe

That's true! I just see everyone with such beautiful birds and I want that.. It just makes me sad that the possibility of breeding them is thrown out the window since it would take forever to establish good auto sexing qualities. Sigh, so many people raved about SHR. I texted her today, just to see if she's giving me her bad one's but she said that they all look like that and it doesn't matter because those lines disappear anyway...

Oh man.. I didn't even know what to say to that so I just stopped texting her.

Any suggestions for great places to get Cream Legbars? They're becoming my favorite breed!

Ya everyone appears to have amazing birds, but they go through a lot of bad ones to get there. We got our first Cream Legbars from chickens hatched from the late Decmeber 2011 GFF breeding pens. We breed them in 2012 but in early 2013 culled 100% of our cockerels and only kept three pullets to build the flock. We brought in another breeding pair and another cockerel the end of 2012 and in 2013 hatched again. That year we kept one pullet and one cockerel. We were really excited to finally have a cockerel good enough to breed after culling over 40 cockerels that weren't what we were looking for to move our flock forward. In 2014 we hatched again and kept one cockerel and four pullets. The flock looked pretty good the spring of 2015 but we had culled over a hundred birds by that point to build our three breeding trios.

We moved from Texas to Oklahoma this summer and were not able to bring any adult stock with us. We brought about 30 Cream Legbar chicks that hatched right before we moved to rebuild a flock from. This grow out group was much better than any of our previous year's groups, but when you are used to a flock made up of the top 2-5 birds from grow out groups of 30+ each year and you have to start over..well you miss your breeding stock. We have what we need to move forward though. It is just going to take time to get the breeding groups built back up.

No we don't have any chicks available right now. In 2014 we sponsored a couple of 4H projects so all of our hatches ether stayed with us or went to 4H families. We did offer hatching eggs the beginning of 2014 though. SHR contacted us late in the hatching season to get Marans eggs. We learned before the Marans eggs shipped that SHR had Cream Legbars listed on their website. So...we suprised them by filling the extra space in the shipping box with blue (err... green? color?) eggs. They were pretty impressed with the size of the egg from our 2011 hen that was laying our biggest egg. They wanted more Legbar eggs but our breeding group was broke up by then so we agreed to ship them more eggs the following season. They were the only ones to got hatching eggs from us the following season. We didn't offer any chicks or hatching eggs this year. We will be hatching for ourself next spring and if things go well would like to offer Cream Legbars to other again. Our flock is a work in progress. Our original goal was to produce a finished line in 5 years. Now after a couple of set backs and a stiff shot of reality we will be happy if we had a finished line in 15 years. There always seems to be about three times as much work as you originally plan for.

 

[Red Banks]

Oh my gosh!! They are dreamy!

Where did you get your chicks from?!

This is what I had envisioned when I ordered mine. If you don't mind, please take lots of pictures to update us on their growth!

So Kaylee from SHR texted me today and said that she would be coming down near my hour. I asked her to bring me a Splash Isbar and another Rees chick
but EMPHASIZED that I wanted a crisp, unbroken line going down it's head. We'll see what she brings me! As always, I'll be back to update!

Cream Legbars have officially became my favorite breed and I attribute that to all of you. This is the thread I'm the most excited to check and most active on.

I picked them up yesterday from GFF. They are very cute! I will post pictures because I am going to rely on the experts here to help me decide where to go with them. I just set up a second tote and will need to set up a third.... but they are tiny now, I can wait a week. I put the lightest colored pullets in the second tote with the lightest cockerel. There are some very dark pullets and cockerels. What would one want to see now in this babies? The dark cockerels have a very distinct white spot.

I love the Isbars. It is terrible.... I like them all.

 

[henless]

My CCL babies are finally here!

What such a pretty variety of colors! It will be interesting to see how they turn out. Please be sure and post updated pics.

 

[Red Banks]

I separated the very light from the very dark. The light colored cockerel is at the bottom of the second picture. The two dark cockerels are at the top left of the top picture. Are darker chicks more correct than lighter?

 

[KPenley]

I separated the very light from the very dark. The light colored cockerel is at the bottom of the second picture. The two dark cockerels are at the top left of the top picture. Are darker chicks more correct than lighter?

No. Though you may find that a certain shade or pattern produces a better result in your own line one day. What we're looking for is a clear difference between the males and females so that the autosexing feature is preserved. If you are interested in having chicks that are closer to the original PCGB goals then you will want chicks that are grays and slates with large light headsplotches on the males and tiny dots on the heads of the females. They all change so much though that down is not a great predictor of final feather colors (though red in chicks does seem to be an indicator of lots of autosomal reds in adults) HTH! Best wishes!

 

[Exotica]

I have eggcellent news! Today, I woke up and a few minutes later, the breeder from SHR texted me to say that she will be on her way to Disneyland and if I wanted, she could bring some chicks down! I honestly wasn't planning on getting anymore chicks but... how can I possibly resist? Last time, my Splash Isbar did not make the journey so I asked for one of those and since I have 2 Curtis Hale lines + 1 Rees line, I asked for another Rees.

As you all know, the other three she sent me had undesirable auto sexing qualities. I made sure to tell her I wanted a chick with great auto sexing qualities.. and then drove 40 minutes to Disneyland so I can pick up my newest addition: Onóra (I decided to name the other one Khaleesi and gave it's name to my new one lol)









For some reason, she looks like she has a white dot in the middle of her head on photos but in real life, it's not there - if not a very unnoticeable "lighter" shade of dark brown.

I'm so happy!

Oh and also, I took this picture of the poor girl right when I got home and she's been in an air conditioned car without water for 4 hours. She looks a bit shabby right now!

 

[Exotica]

Ya everyone appears to have amazing birds, but they go through a lot of bad ones to get there. We got our first Cream Legbars from chickens hatched from the late Decmeber 2011 GFF breeding pens. We breed them in 2012 but in early 2013 culled 100% of our cockerels and only kept three pullets to build the flock. We brought in another breeding pair and another cockerel the end of 2012 and in 2013 hatched again. That year we kept one pullet and one cockerel. We were really excited to finally have a cockerel good enough to breed after culling over 40 cockerels that weren't what we were looking for to move our flock forward. In 2014 we hatched again and kept one cockerel and four pullets. The flock looked pretty good the spring of 2015 but we had culled over a hundred birds by that point to build our three breeding trios.

We moved from Texas to Oklahoma this summer and were not able to bring any adult stock with us. We brought about 30 Cream Legbar chicks that hatched right before we moved to rebuild a flock from. This grow out group was much better than any of our previous year's groups, but when you are used to a flock made up of the top 2-5 birds from grow out groups of 30+ each year and you have to start over..well you miss your breeding stock. We have what we need to move forward though. It is just going to take time to get the breeding groups built back up.

No we don't have any chicks available right now. In 2014 we sponsored a couple of 4H projects so all of our hatches ether stayed with us or went to 4H families. We did offer hatching eggs the beginning of 2014 though. SHR contacted us late in the hatching season to get Marans eggs. We learned before the Marans eggs shipped that SHR had Cream Legbars listed on their website. So...we suprised them by filling the extra space in the shipping box with blue (err... green? color?) eggs. They were pretty impressed with the size of the egg from our 2011 hen that was laying our biggest egg. They wanted more Legbar eggs but our breeding group was broke up by then so we agreed to ship them more eggs the following season. They were the only ones to got hatching eggs from us the following season. We didn't offer any chicks or hatching eggs this year. We will be hatching for ourself next spring and if things go well would like to offer Cream Legbars to other again. Our flock is a work in progress. Our original goal was to produce a finished line in 5 years. Now after a couple of set backs and a stiff shot of reality we will be happy if we had a finished line in 15 years. There always seems to be about three times as much work as you originally plan for.

Thank you for your contribution to the breed! You're amazing and all the work that you put in will not go unnoticed, I'm sure!
How was it moving from one state to another? Are you adjusted yet now, or are you a bit homesick? I've always wanted to move to another state..
California is just not really for me.. Some people down here are just very superficial and judge people based on looks/finance instead of who they truly are..
It's so hard to trust!

How sweet of you guys to sponsor 4H and what lucky kids!
Well, if you ever have chicks and don't mind selling some - work in progress or not, you have a customer in me!!

I trust you much more than the "breeders" around here that scam people just to get them to buy chicks. I know, because I've been a victim twice sadly.

I picked them up yesterday from GFF. They are very cute! I will post pictures because I am going to rely on the experts here to help me decide where to go with them. I just set up a second tote and will need to set up a third.... but they are tiny now, I can wait a week. I put the lightest colored pullets in the second tote with the lightest cockerel. There are some very dark pullets and cockerels. What would one want to see now in this babies? The dark cockerels have a very distinct white spot.

I love the Isbars. It is terrible.... I like them all.

No wonder!! They are just absolutely gorgeous. Their coloring is divine!

Yeah, I love them all too.. It's hurting my wallet. I have 20 chickens and besides Cream Legbars (4) and BSL's (3), the other are either in pairs or a single of all separate breeds.