Cream Legbars

[KPenley]

ooooh that would be a gorgeous Christmas Tree! Can you imagine?

 

[1muttsfan]

Thats great Chickat, Go Gracie!

 

[blackbirds13]

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This is really wonderful and endearing...

 

[babymakes6]

Kathy, I think you have some of the prettiest Legbars in the US!
Grace is beautiful, and her brother is very nice looking!

 

[ChicKat]

Thank you everyone!! No wonder we think this breed ROCKS! (because they do!) I really appreciate your comments. Thanks X 1,000,000!

 

[GaryDean26]

Secret to the cream roosters? It's called total luck!!! (this time around anyway). If my babies last summer hadn't all gotten sick and I put them all down, I would NOT have look for more stock and happened upon Coral (Poco Pollo) and then things fell into place for me to take over all her Cream Legbar breeding stock. OK maybe not luck maybe divine Providence!!! Hope I can learn something to help everyone though!

So is that the necessity is the mother of invention theory at work?

We had a small flock of Marans when we got started. I know nothing about Marans when my wife got them, but when we lost 3/4 of the flock to a 112 deg. Texas heat wave, I started calling up everyone that I could find with Marans and really studied up on what to look for in a good Marans to find a new cockerel to put with out surviving hens. If it wasn't for our set back forcing us to do something new then we might still have a small flock of Marans and never have done anything with chichens.

 

[GaryDean26]

It would be great if everyone could show pictures of the chicks vs what they turned out to be when they got their adult feathering, sort of like a side-by side comparison.

I'd offer to start a thread but my eggs are on order (thanks Papa Brooder!) so I wont be able to post photos for about a year.

The Fancy Feathers Poultry Show gave the Cream Legbar Club approoval to hold a Cream Legbar Chick contest at their April 13th show in San Marcos, TX. I hope that we get good participations and lots of down color from the different entries so we can see the full range of colors.

Almost a year agot I started with two dark cockerels (like the one in the middle of lonnyandrind's photo), and nearlly yellow cockerels, and one that looked like the one on the right for lonnyandrind's photo. I did a photo progression of the 4 cockerels up to maturity. I have a PDF of the comparision. Anyone can either see it on the yahoo cream legbar breeders group files, or send me a PM with your email address and I will send the comparision (sorry I can send a PDF attachment through the BYC PM).

The darker down cockerels displayed brighter chestnut than the lighter colored ones, but I wasn't able to see any other differences.

 

[GaryDean26]

Both outstanding birds..the Boy looks diluted enough on the hackles to pass like a Silver, the saddle look cream. what I´m not too sure about is the color of the crest. should it be also Cream colored or Silver? is some Chestnut allowed on the crest?

The 3rd GFF line (you have all seen the photo of the cockerel that are breeding the cream offspring back to) all have a different feather type than the first two line. It reminds me of the genetic hackle that the is breed for tying artificial flies for fisherman. It it is a finer feature and seem to take the chestnut color differently than the crest of the other lines. For example one foundation hen from the first GFF line showed a lot of black on her crest before her winter molt. After the molt the lacing at the edges of the crest feathers was three times as wide to were the cream color was about all that could be seen. The 3rd Blood line feathers seem to restrict5 the application of the lacing to where barring is finer and lacing is inhibited.

I am not even going to ask if anyone else has noticed this. I am Just going to say that yes some chestnut is allowed on the crest per the British SOP. The 3rd bloodline feather type does appear to make for larger crests with out floppy combs though. I am not going to ask if anyone has noticed that either. Everyone just enjoy you hatching eggs and ask questions when you own birds start maturing.

 

[1muttsfan]

Garydean, that is great - is this the first official show display of CL's? Hope any folks that get to go take lots of pictures to share

 

[ChicKat]

The 3rd GFF line (you have all seen the photo of the cockerel that are breeding the cream offspring back to) all have a different feather type than the first two line. It reminds me of the genetic hackle that the is breed for tying artificial flies for fisherman. It it is a finer feature and seem to take the chestnut color differently than the crest of the other lines. For example one foundation hen from the first GFF line showed a lot of black on her crest before her winter molt. After the molt the lacing at the edges of the crest feathers was three times as wide to were the cream color was about all that could be seen. The 3rd Blood line feathers seem to restrict5 the application of the lacing to where barring is finer and lacing is inhibited.

I am not even going to ask if anyone else has noticed this. I am Just going to say that yes some chestnut is allowed on the crest per the British SOP. The 3rd bloodline feather type does appear to make for larger crests with out floppy combs though. I am not going to ask if anyone has noticed that either. Everyone just enjoy you hatching eggs and ask questions when you own birds start maturing.

Could you please, oh please, post a photo of the hen with the crest that was different after her molt. That would be fascinating.