Cream Legbars

[Bama1]

Got my first pullet eggs! Day before yesterday and again today! OAC 179 color. Now my other pullet needs to get with the program and start laying also!

 

[FridayYet]

Hooray for eggs! One of mine has been laying every day for over a week. The other two are still waiting,........ Hope they start soon.

 

[ChicKat]

Jill must be very selective with what she shows people. Ive seen some of her birds grown out that some one else owns and they were not that good.

(chickat) Is it quite fair to judge someone's chickens that they didn't keep as indicators of their flock? Hmmmm- Did they get her culls? Just askin' :O)

Ive also herd from a trustworthy source that a CL roo with a beard took second place against Jill's roo who got first. Just goes to show their is allot of problems in the UK blood as well as no real competition to the people who we supposedly think are the best. I mean i could take two crappy roos to a show here and get best of breed because no one else is showing a Cl. but that doesn't make my birds anything special they would still be the culls i took.

(chickat) yeah, you are totally right about how they are also having imperfections over there...In someways, I think we may be trying to stablize the unstable with the unknowns and recessives etc. that we are dealing with -- and a perfect pair could produce imperfect offspring. Just the genetic mix.

Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought at least two different exhibitors have to participate in a show for anyone to get Best of Breed. -- It brings to mind a parallel, that happened in our cattle breed. The photos of the FOUNDATION sires from years and years ago...wouldn't even place in the breeder events now. The same thing will probably happen to Cream Legbars in 5 -10 years. The winners of the first contests won't be as refined as the later birds...I think this happens in a lot of breeds doesn't it?

Which brings to mind -- There are a lot of County Fairs, State Fairs etc. around and about coming this year yet. Anyone who wants to jump in should try their hand (speaking as someone who has very little idea of what all is involved) -- Here is a link that identifies shows. --- Texas State Fair in October, and a County Fair in Tyler TX one of our info inquires mentioned. Why not get out there and give it a try?

http://www.poultryshowcentral.com/poultry-show-dates.html

If you think about it later and don't want to dig through these threads - it is under 'shows, meets and getting the word out about Cream Legbars' topic in the Cream Legbar Club's clubhouse google group.... I really hope to hear that some folks will be putting birds in competition this year....maybe a bit soon...but maybe the only time in my life I could get a second if I had a bearded Cream Legbar Rooster to put in competition..... just sayin'.

The above link is thanks to Cream Legbar Club Vice President, Heather Barnes.

 

[ChicKat]

Got my first pullet eggs! Day before yesterday and again today! OAC 179 color. Now my other pullet needs to get with the program and start laying also!

Congratulations!!!

 

[ChicKat]

Hooray for eggs! One of mine has been laying every day for over a week. The other two are still waiting,........ Hope they start soon.

Frequent layers are THE BEST!!!!!

 

[sol2go]

Also the black breasted pullet started out black. shes getting her adult feathers in and is now a dark salmon to almost a to dark of a salmon color. she still has that weird cream barring threw parts of her back and such like Jill Reese hens get. Ill try to get some pics of them also. before and afters of the black to salmon. as well as the large cream barring they get. .

It turns out I also have a pullet with more black than the others: no crest, heavy barring on the neck, salmon breast feathers with black tips. Her sisters are yet another version of the genetic diversity this breed is throwing, including an all-white crested.

One thing I have found to be consistent regardless of the breeding source, is how pleasant and easy to handle they are, with individual personalities.

 

[ChicKat]

It turns out I also have a pullet with more black than the others: no crest, heavy barring on the neck, salmon breast feathers with black tips. Her sisters are yet another version of the genetic diversity this breed is throwing, including an all-white crested.

One thing I have found to be consistent regardless of the breeding source, is how pleasant and easy to handle they are, with individual personalities.

An often overlooked but never-the-less extremely important attribute!

 

[Flaming Chicken]

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It turns out I also have a pullet with more black than the others:  no crest, heavy barring on the neck, salmon breast feathers with black tips.  Her sisters are yet another version of the genetic diversity this breed is throwing, including an all-white crested.  

One thing I have found to be consistent regardless of the breeding source, is how pleasant and easy to handle they are, with individual personalities.

My favorite hen who used to just follow me out of pen and peck me for trying to shoo her back, now tries to climb the welded wire fence when she sees me. She likes (demands) the treats and lets me pick her up. In fact all the hens are easy to handle, not so much with the boys. A couple of the boys have been a bit aggressive and had to be culled.

 

[cleansquared]

It turns out I also have a pullet with more black than the others:  no crest, heavy barring on the neck, salmon breast feathers with black tips.  Her sisters are yet another version of the genetic diversity this breed is throwing, including an all-white crested.  

One thing I have found to be consistent regardless of the breeding source, is how pleasant and easy to handle they are, with individual personalities.

if you get a chance read the papers punett put out on the original creation of the crested cream legbar seems they had all types of things which popped up that they tried to weed out down to just creams originally creams only came about 25% of the time so it took quite a while to get it to mostly creams and defined barring ill try to find the li nk if you need it to the paper i had to download it to my comp it was too big for my phone.. Also i would like to add my leg bars are wonderful girls i have a crested and non crested my crested lays an egg 6 day s a week the non crested has not laid since i got her they eat the same live the same idk they are the same age..? Crested layer is deff going into the utility breeding program!

 

[stake]

Ya, it makes you wonder.

I rehomed 5 of my 12 month old hens yesterday. It was sad to see them go. I am going to try to rehome about 5 more. I collected an egg from my original hen yesterday for the incubator though. It will be the first time in over a year that eggs from her have gone in the incubator for us. Will be back up and running in the spring with the 3rd generation. We are hoping for low tail angles, straigh combs on cockerels, crests, cream plumage, 63g+ eggs, and 180+ egg in the first year of laying.

Gary:

Might I ask why you want low tail angles. in your roos? And, keep me in mind if you are hatching in the spring...I will probably be in the market for a couple of pullets. TIA!