Cream Legbars

[walady944]

I am very excited to be getting my first cream legbar chicks in 2 weeks; am told they will be lines B & C, 4 pullets, 1 cockerel and whatever else they
decide to send along for warmth. Hoping they have good type, but never know what I will get.

 

[Zonoma]

Sadly, it seems to many, the CCL is just the newest fad bird. Many of the urban owners are only after egg color, and are using the excuse that it's "rare" and that there is no standard, to not cull birds with split wings, no crests, poor coloring, type etc. How can this nonsense be discouraged?

While I am interested in breeding toward the standard (Obviously because pages and pages of genetics are not a fun way to spend my morning!), the CLB is exciting to me because it makes backyard sustainable flocks a reality for small urban and suburban homesteaders. They can raise a single breed exclusively for eggs and meat and know which is which so the children don't get attached. I look forward to the day when this breed is widely available to those who have lost faith in corporate ag and desperately want to know where their food is coming from. I think this also answers "How can this be discouraged" because they will be looking for 'eating' birds as well as 'breeders' and layers.

 

[GaryDean26]

Well said!

 

[babymakes6]

Quote:

I remember just a couple of years ago watching people (on here) have a bidding "war" over Black Copper Marans eggs. I can remember seeing some egg auctions go for upwards of several HUNDRED dollars-for EGGS that needed to be shipped! Look how quickly the price came down. I see the Cream Legbar, Rhodebar, and Bielefelder having lasting value-simply BECAUSE of the autosexing. I am working on breeding towards the standard myself, and I especially am interested in working towards a definite BLUE egg color-not "almost blue" or blue-green. I will be selling some of my culls to people who are not really interested in showing, but I will be making sure they know they do not meet the standard. If they are a very bad specimen I will be killing them.

 

[Zonoma]

Thanks!

 

[dretd]

My first cream legbar zipping right now.

How did the rest of the hatch go?

 

[dretd]

I am very excited to be getting my first cream legbar chicks in 2 weeks; am told they will be lines B & C, 4 pullets, 1 cockerel and whatever else they
decide to send along for warmth. Hoping they have good type, but never know what I will get.

You will have to share lots of pictures when you get them in. I am excited for you!

 

[faykokoWV]

I am very excited to be getting my first cream legbar chicks in 2 weeks; am told they will be lines B & C, 4 pullets, 1 cockerel and whatever else they
decide to send along for warmth. Hoping they have good type, but never know what I will get.

I was very surprised when they actually sent pullets along for warmth!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I believe ChicKat is out of town right now, one of those long in-between-ranches-with-no-internet travels. I know she is trying to get each of the ranches set up with working internet so she can check in every couple of days but it's been a challenge. Hope she checks in soon!

Rinda

 

[normanack]

I'd appreciate some candid assessments of my Cream Legbar pullet and cockerel. Don't hold back, I can take it.

Jett, 33 weeks and still eggless. I'm going to put some gentian violet salve on her vent today to verify she's not fooling me.
In this picture her front end is tilted ever so slightly away from me.
The Sussex behind her is enormous; Jett is just a little smaller than the rest of my large-fowl hens.




James, 34 weeks. Somebody bit off his sickle feathers; just pencil them in with your mind.
While his comb does not extend in front of his beak, it's close.
He lost some tips to frostbite.


Many thanks!