Cream Legbars

[dretd]

. They are due to hatch on my 50th birthday so either I really will have something to celebrate or I will be having a really suck-y birthday. I'll keep y'all posted as the eggs develop....or not.

Hopefully you will have your happiest B-day ever, and lots of cute little chicks to celebrate it with you!

Thanks ChicKat! I will be happy with 2, anything else is pure gravy and cause for celebration for sure. I guess have low expectations after having so many disasterous hatches!

I would pitch that egg, if it went bad either in the incubator or under a broody it could ruin your whole hatch. Not many things ickier than a broody covered with rotten egg.

I wasn't intending on setting it, there's no way it's not contaminated. And it would get crushed under the weight of the broody and I had an egg break last year under Autumn and it was really gross! I am saving for now as a color reference. I suspect it had a hairline fracture-- the kind where it gets a hard landing on another egg in the nest-- before it left the breeder that expanded when the pressure dropped in shipping. Good advice on your part.

 

[harriedhomemaker]

Rosie Cotton at 2 weeks old. I love her pouf!



Faramir at 2 weeks. This cockerel was the darker of my two chicks, but I can't tell much difference between them at this point.

 

[dretd]

Rosie Cotton at 2 weeks old. I love her pouf!

I love her pouf too! They are both very cute!

 

[KPenley]

Such sweet babies! You probably won't see too much difference in the boys until the 5 week mark and then the biggest differences will appear around 5-6 months.

 

[harriedhomemaker]

Such sweet babies! You probably won't see too much difference in the boys until the 5 week mark and then the biggest differences will appear around 5-6 months.

Good to know. I'm taking lots of photos along the way so I can document how they grow out.

 

[pineneedlefarms]

Langcroft, if you paid through paypal you can file a claim, there is just a time line. From your ebay page you can click on "report a problem," from your purchase page, this will allow you to open a claim. If we were closer I'd be happy to ship you eggs. I think eggs just do better not shipping from coast to coast.

 

[Bama1]

Brrrrrr 45 degrees here in Alabama this morning. This is THE coldest spring overall on record ever for us here. Normally Memorial Day weekend "summer" is in full hot humid swing. Safe weekend to everyone.

 

[ChicKat]

Here are some Cream Legbars:




First one - no crest....
Second photo - medium - what I call "neat crest"
Third photo - Bouffant Crest - too much for my taste -- too fluffy.

These are probably less cream than my other CLs.... but it is kind of hard to say they are 'golden' -- Unless the tip off is the red-head crests (except the one lacking the crest). They have all lightened in the sun and their body plumage is more brownish taupe than my past females that were more gray in the body plumage.

My favorite is the middle one. She produces a daily egg -- but her eggs are still small (pullet size plus) -- she started about a month ago - so it is all normal. She lays that unusual very rounded egg. The last one has recently picked up laying - lays about a 2.0 oz or close about every-other-day. The first one - hasn't produced an egg with a shell - or maybe one when I first got her. She is sadly a cull.....because she has nice legs and body - but she also has squirrel tail. Meant to get more pictures of this group -- but ran out of time -- and was lucky to get these. They are now off to summer camp --- and I am doing a lot of traveling - so it will be autumn before we are re-untied...if they make it through the summer O.K.

 

[nittanyxi]

I just hatched some Cream Legbar chicks and I'm having a hard time sexing them. They are purebred from greenhill stock. I'v been told the males will have a white dot on their head and the females will have a dorsal stipe from their head and all the way down their back (chipmunk stripes). Problem is I have some that have a small hint of light color on their heads and a dark dorsal stipe from their head all they way down their back. Then I have some that don't have white on their heads but also don't have a strong dorsal stripe. Any suggestions? I hatched them once before and it was pretty clear who was a roo and who was a hen. Is that not always the case?

 

[ChicKat]

I just hatched some Cream Legbar chicks and I'm having a hard time sexing them. They are purebred from greenhill stock. I'v been told the males will have a white dot on their head and the females will have a dorsal stipe from their head and all the way down their back (chipmunk stripes). Problem is I have some that have a small hint of light color on their heads and a dark dorsal stipe from their head all they way down their back. Then I have some that don't have white on their heads but also don't have a strong dorsal stripe. Any suggestions? I hatched them once before and it was pretty clear who was a roo and who was a hen. Is that not always the case?

Stripes are females when the stripes are very distinct. Sometimes females have a faint white head marking - but if it is a male the head marking is very definite white splotch. Males may have dorsal stripes but they are more diffuse than the ones the females have.

Why don't you post some chick photos and get comments from your fellow Cream Legbar admirers? :O)

Congratulations on the hatch.