Cream Legbars

[1muttsfan]

The Cr gene for crests is incompletely dominant, so breeding a crested to a non-crested individual will result in mostly crested offspring, and those without crests will carry the gene. Those that are homozygous (Cr/Cr) will have larger crests than those heterozygous (Cr/cr).

Very interesting article, though very scientific in places, scroll down for some more plain-English explanations of Crested

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0034012

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Thanks for the details!

I'm not so savvy with the specifics of genetics.

 

[1muttsfan]

The article is really complicated in some places

, but they were kind enough to put something you can actually understand without advanced genetics study. I did think it was interesting that crested birds were described by the Romans in the 3rd century AD!

 

[GaryDean26]

Hi Kent,
Just googled your location - you are way out there! -- The Cream Legbar Club president lives about 2-hours and 46 minutes away from you and sells fertile hatching eggs. There are other folks in Texas who may have hatching eggs.

H and H Poultry may be your best bet for started Cream Legbars. April Howington, of H & H Poultry was selling older (like 4-6 weeks) chicks at the Fancy Feathers 4-H event in San Marcos, on the 13 of April.... So your quest certainly is achievable.

http://www.handhpoultry.com/

There may be others that aren't jumping to mind right now. I guess part of the question may be are you and your future trio - up for a road trip? Good luck, hope that you get exactly what you are looking for.

I drove 3 hours to Waco to get 6+ Black Copper Marans eggs from a rare bloodline I want to try last year. We had 4 hatch and they were all cockerels. Lol.

H&H has their own line of Cream Legbars (sort of). They are F7 project birds that were started from scratch from Brown Leghorn and Barred Plymouth Rocks. They introduced a GFF cockerel last year to the line that was essentally a gold Legbars at that point (white eggs, non-crested, gold), and said that they are now getting 75% cresting and 75% blue eggs in the H&H line.

I know a breeder in Brownwood, TX. Her CLB flock should be seeing its first pullet egg by the end of May. Stag Creek Ranch in Comanche, TX has Cream Legbars too. As you know if there is anything I can do to help I will.

 

[ChicKat]

Can someone help me sex this Cream Legbar? He/she is about 7 weeks old in the photos (they are all 7 weeks old). I got these chicks direct from Greenfire Farm, and this one had a slight blur of a dot on her head. She has feathered out like the cockerels, but is the size of the other pullet and has a crest. Her comb is similar to the pullet (in last photo).
















Thoughts? I am going to try to sell the extra cockerels, but would like to keep this seemingly androgynous one if it is indeed a she.

Hi Sunnydell -
what cute chicks...what bright eyes! Welcome to BYC and to Cream Legbars!! Your project sounds great.

In addition to echoing everything that lonnyandrinda said..... IMO the cockerels are slower growing than the females...at a certain age - a female from the same hatch may seem more mature - like about 10-14 weeks - I think. Then the cockerel will catch up and surpass the female - and actually reach sexual maturity before the female. (specific to a pair with the same hatch date twice in my experience)--- And the male's crest will grow more slowly than the females in my experience too. You do kind of have to wait until a certain age -- 20-weeks before you get the inkling of the mature cockerel and they do continue to change for about the first 1/2 year. Anyone else here notice that as well?

 

[redchicken9]

Redchicken9 do you have any photos please?

Pics.....pic....pic...

I can't believe a week has passed. I will look for photos, my Nikon died last month. Are you asking to see the birds or the egg colors? I'll try for both. Here's a shot of some crosses and CL males as juveniles. There's a barred rock cross and a golden laced wyandotte x. The golden laced wyandotte roos were gorgeous, like the red and white pattern like sparklers, but they had to be given away.






At the water are what I believe are 2 Welsummer Xs, approx. 1 o'clock and 8 o'clock. Sorry photo is dark.




Here are what I think are a GLWyd x and below her a Wel x.



That's all I could find on them for earlier shots. If I can, I'll pull out my cell phone, just never really good.

 

[normanack]

Jett is not yet laying (as far as we can tell). But today she pushed a broody off her nest of stolen mutt eggs and took over -- for all of one minute. Then she left to find something more interesting to do.


Here is the original broody, back on the nest and all fluffed and upset:




And here is Quoth, brooding six Cream Legbar eggs (and one random bantam egg):



Good little Quoth!

 

[1muttsfan]

Jett is starting to get it,i just know it!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

YAY!!!! Hope for eggs for you soon!

 

[Bama1]

Female with crest hatched 3-27-13 and pair hatched 4-4-13. So cute at this age with the fuzzy, fluff and feathers.