Cream Legbars

[GaryDean26]

I haven't seen any grey girls. Things are never dull when the Cream Legbars hatch are they.

 

[1muttsfan]

Rinda, that Pinky looks like he is coming along great. And it will be very interesting to see how the silver chivk grows out.

 

[Triplell]

Yes I found the problem and fixed it. The roosts were to small and too high humidity. Plus we had a very hard and cold winter. His comb is fine but I have another rooster that lost all of his points on his comb. We had a small barn fire and of course the fire Dept used water and the foam. After that it was almost impossible to lower the humidity. All the fowl was saved with some damage to three of my BA's.

 

[Flaming Chicken]

OK Anyone remember these guys? I kept the left and right ones to see how they grew out. Left boy got a pink band, right boy got a yellow band.


Here they are a month or so ago:




And here they are today. First orange band- who I didn't like as much a month ago and I still don't like as much today:








Next Pinky:









I'm pretty pleased with how he is growing out!



Here's a few from Sunday's hatch. I am sure hatching a lot of boys the last few weeks. Got another white one, I seem to get one or two per month. Wonder if I am sexing them right because they have all looked like girls to me... go figure! Anyway I had a REALLY light boy hatch out but neglected to take a photo before I sold him in a quad to someone local. The reason I wanted to post the pictures is that gray girl. ALL of my girls have been the classic warm brown like the female on the right. The very last egg to hatch that I thought wouldn't make it was this tiny gray girl! Has anyone hatched one and grown it out? I am going to mark her and see how she turns out. I'm keeping 3 girls and probably none of the boys out of this hatch.

And here are mine that hatched a week ago.

First of all, I have struggled to get some clear pictures of these guys. apparently under the heat lamp, on a brown background with the flash is the way to go.

The pair of boys on the top are from Rinda along with the white boy and the girl on the Left. The boy to the right is mine and the girl on the bottom is also mine. The boy that hatched from my egg, is the lightest one I have seen but has a lot of brown chick down. The girl on the bottom is identical in appearance to the pullets I hatched in the fall that grew out to look like this


From Rindas eggs-the boy on top has mostly grey down and light patches at the front of his wings, while the other one under him has more grey than mine but patches on brown too. I think that you are sexing the white girls correctly, I can see some clear striping on her head and down her back, if you look at her brother in my picture especially this one below, He has a big white splotch on the back of his head.


I plan to keep track of them also. I have banded them and will grow out all of the roosters. With 2 requests for roosters in the past week, I don't think I'll have trouble finding homes for them.

 

[redchicken9]

I haven't seen any grey girls. Things are never dull when the Cream Legbars hatch are they.

Likewise, albeit I haven't hatched much, but have a friend doing a small hatch, so I'll check on hers.

Do I remember you having a friend with the gold legbars? It might be nice to see/know their down color on females. I have always been curious about the gold, being the "brown stripe type", which is described as the ground color being dark brown, but paler than the very dark brown stripe. It is also added that a pale ground color is to be avoided. Whereas the cream is described as the "silver-grey type". To me that would mean the females silver and cream legbars would be distinct from the golds at hatch. For silver/cream female legbar chicks, the stripe is also indicated as a very dark brown, but the ground color is left undefined. Does anyone know about female chicks from the UK to compare if there might be more silver-grey involved than what we are showing here?

 

[dretd]

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1muttsfan--very cool picture series.

Here is a link to an eye color test/game originally posted by Habib's Hens (was Silverfox) in another thread. I took it and scored average, but almost all of my misses were in the blue/green area:
http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

 

[CibolaChooks]

1muttsfan--very cool picture series.

Here is a link to an eye color test/game originally posted by Habib's Hens (was Silverfox) in another thread. I took it and scored average, but almost all of my misses were in the blue/green area:
http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77

i got a 12. missed in the blues and yellow area. i tried to post below it looked like it was going to show the graph then it didnt when it posted

 

[CibolaChooks]

Your score: 12
FM Hue Test Results

A lower score is better, with ZERO being the perfect score. The bars above show the regions of the color spectrum where hue discrimination is low.

dam i looked like it would post the result graph​

 

[dretd]

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That's a very good question and I hope someone else can provide English examples. An even better question that will have to remain unanswered is what did the chick down look like on Punnett's chicks seeing as how the color in the US is changing just within a few years with selective breeding.

I have raised several other breeds with chipmunk chicks and reflecting back in comparison the two female CL chicks I just hatched, the CLs have a more neutral milk chocolate brown base color and the stripes are a brighter/lighter tan color whereas the Speckled Sussex, EE and Welsummers were definitely more of a Burnt Umber (with gold and red undertones) brown and a richer gold stripe.

This is all so very interesting.

 

[dretd]

Your score: 12
FM Hue Test Results

A lower score is better, with ZERO being the perfect score. The bars above show the regions of the color spectrum where hue discrimination is low.

dam i looked like it would post the result graph​

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You beat me--I got a 50!