Cream Legbars

[Indiana Dave]

Just put a dozen Cream Legbar eggs in the incubator yesterday!!! I love hatching eggs, but this time its even more exciting knowing they are CL's. Been wanting some for a while now. Picked up the eggs in TN on Tuesday from Chris Mullins, of Mullins Chicken Ranch. It worked out well that my dad and I were going down to Dale Hollow for a few days to fish. Only had to drive 45 minutes to pick up the eggs. Now for the long 21 days.......

 

[ChicKat]

Just put a dozen Cream Legbar eggs in the incubator yesterday!!! I love hatching eggs, but this time its even more exciting knowing they are CL's. Been wanting some for a while now. Picked up the eggs in TN on Tuesday from Chris Mullins, of Mullins Chicken Ranch. It worked out well that my dad and I were going down to Dale Hollow for a few days to fish. Only had to drive 45 minutes to pick up the eggs. Now for the long 21 days.......

Good luck with that hatch --

Be sure to post back when you get the results -- just love to see pictures of CL babies

 

[ChicKat]

look at the three broody hens. they have somewhere around 18-20 eggs last time i could see in there. there is always at least 2 on the nest. only one at a time can leave it seems to go eat and drink




Also my other broody CL hen has no compassion she let her chicks cry and cry away. if i tried to help them up to the nest she jumps down to attack me and they have learned to get up there themselves.





It stopped by my RIR Roo to say hi before it went to roost.



one is always under her belly and the other sleeps on the perch out in front . this hen might have the least penciling of the hens i have. shes looking pretty shabby but its cute how she puts her wings down to keep her chick warm.

Really, really nice pictures! Are those white chicks other than CLs, or did you hatch that many white ones? The mom is sure protective -- that wings-around-the-baby photo is just priceless. IN the top pict, all three hens look very uniform. Question: do they all have crests?

If I had three hens in one nest box here -- they would have died of heat stroke -- I had 110-degrees, 105-degrees and 99-degrees at right about the same time yesterday, (three different thermometers, in three different places, of course) and the chickens were in the 99 at that time. They spent the whole day panting. I forgot to look under the porch steps but if it isn't there - no egg from my best CL yesterday. I'm just glad they survived it. Maybe today I'll walk to all three spots with the brooder thermometer and see if it is just a thermometer variation -- but it''s pretty brutal here.

Although the reputation says that CLs don't go broody, I'm really glad to see a lot of broody CL hen evidence. How nice when the hen does the work of incubating and brooding - no reliance on the electric company that way. LOL.

Interesting behavior from your hen too. You reminded me that last fall, the broody CL kept the chicks away from the feeder with chick feed and made them forage (inside a little run attached to the coop) - at the time it seemed a bit cruel to the little fuzz balls....but I bet that that is the type of behavior that makes for superb self-sufficient chickens that are GOOD foragers. Sounds like your CL and the one I had raising chicks at that time are REALLY strict mothers.

 

[CibolaChooks]

Really, really nice pictures! Are those white chicks other than CLs, or did you hatch that many white ones? The mom is sure protective -- that wings-around-the-baby photo is just priceless. IN the top pict, all three hens look very uniform. Question: do they all have crests?

If I had three hens in one nest box here -- they would have died of heat stroke -- I had 110-degrees, 105-degrees and 99-degrees at right about the same time yesterday, (three different thermometers, in three different places, of course) and the chickens were in the 99 at that time. They spent the whole day panting. I forgot to look under the porch steps but if it isn't there - no egg from my best CL yesterday. I'm just glad they survived it. Maybe today I'll walk to all three spots with the brooder thermometer and see if it is just a thermometer variation -- but it''s pretty brutal here.

Although the reputation says that CLs don't go broody, I'm really glad to see a lot of broody CL hen evidence. How nice when the hen does the work of incubating and brooding - no reliance on the electric company that way. LOL.

Interesting behavior from your hen too. You reminded me that last fall, the broody CL kept the chicks away from the feeder with chick feed and made them forage (inside a little run attached to the coop) - at the time it seemed a bit cruel to the little fuzz balls....but I bet that that is the type of behavior that makes for superb self-sufficient chickens that are GOOD foragers. Sounds like your CL and the one I had raising chicks at that time are REALLY strict mothers.

none of them have crest and they are my golds. i got 4 golds and what i think was my two creams(one correct and the other more towards the yellowish cream) Its been hot and humid but not that hot here yet. the area the box is in stays a bit cooler than the other areas of the coup. those chicks are a cross with a RIW. i have yet to hatch a white CL. in the pics with my male the white ones are a Ameraucana Cross.

Also about my Dark down male . He was as dark as it gets but i did notice his Chipmunk stripes were the light cream color. I do think the color of the stripes matters in the dark down chicks.

 

[KPenley]

I've got a broody CL too! She's sitting on 14 eggs!!! I'm not sure how she's flattened herself out so much, but I figured I'd give her a chance.
I love the broody pics Steen!

You know, I'm terrible at getting pics taken, but we should start a big file somewhere with chicks to adult pictures. I know Curtis and Candace have some posted here and at the clubhouse. Someone else did this too??? It would be a good research project to discover the down correlation. In the Autosexing Annuals I remember reading about cold colors versus warm colors, and how we were breeding for cold colored down.

 

[ChicKat]

Wouldn't it be interesting if the lightness of baby stripe indicated the lightness of adult male, and the red aka chestnut in the mother's crest indicated red in her adult offspring, or some other very observable indications?

 

[KPenley]

Wouldn't it be interesting if the lightness of baby stripe indicated the lightness of adult male, and the red aka chestnut in the mother's crest indicated red in her adult offspring, or some other very observable indications?

It would...ok let's add parents to the chicks pics

 

[normanack]

It would...ok let's add parents to the chicks pics

Unless you are the type of person who loses the battery to her camera (quit looking at me like that!) during those precious first months.

 

[KPenley]

Unless you are the type of person who loses the battery to her camera (quit looking at me like that!) during those precious first months.

I forget to charge mine so it's always dead

 

[CibolaChooks]

Wouldn't it be interesting if the lightness of baby stripe indicated the lightness of adult male, and the red aka chestnut in the mother's crest indicated red in her adult offspring, or some other very observable indications?

I believe it does