Cream Legbars

[Pozees]

Maria, how wonderful! I am thrilled for you!

 

[ChicKat]

Not boastful at all- it's the fruit of all your labors and the heartache you've gone through this last year!!!! Congrats on the compliment!

CONGRATULATIONS MARIA!!!!!!! Sorry for the caps, but it is truly a celebration moment for you and all you have accomplished in just 2 short years!

X2 Very happy for you

 

[HaplessRunner]

Congratulations! You have earned the compliments.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

wow this is a fast moving thread. I have not been able to keep up. I do have a question however. Will a dark down chick look similar to a light down chick of the same gender once their feathers come in?

 

[KPenley]

wow this is a fast moving thread. I have not been able to keep up. I do have a question however. Will a dark down chick look similar to a light down chick of the same gender once their feathers come in?

There is some debate in this...but Curtis did a neat comparison of some of his chicks at the Cream Legbar Club Clubhouse. I think it's on the FB page too.

 

[ChicKat]

wow this is a fast moving thread. I have not been able to keep up. I do have a question however. Will a dark down chick look similar to a light down chick of the same gender once their feathers come in?

I think that there isn't any conclusive indication that chick down determines adult feather color. Punnett recognized various colors of chick down and wrote that the dark color of down seemed to be dominant.

 

[harriedhomemaker]

wow this is a fast moving thread. I have not been able to keep up. I do have a question however. Will a dark down chick look similar to a light down chick of the same gender once their feathers come in?

I have only dealt with 6 CL chicks, so take this with a grain of salt: Sometimes.

My two cockerels had two types of down. They both look the same. The cockerel with the darker down may have a bit of red to him, but not much.

Of my four pullets, three had similar down and one was very light. The light one has grown into the most lovely cream bird. Two of the others are average/lemony-cream, and one is gold.

 

[blackbirds13]

Quote: I think it depends .... my darker males are ALWAYS more colorful and tend to have a darker more delineated barring than my lighter boys but I know for some it is not an issue.

 

[chicken pickin]

I have only dealt with 6 CL chicks, so take this with a grain of salt: Sometimes.

My two cockerels had two types of down. They both look the same. The cockerel with the darker down may have a bit of red to him, but not much.

Of my four pullets, three had similar down and one was very light. The light one has grown into the most lovely cream bird. Two of the others are average/lemony-cream, and one is gold.

I was just looking at your picture log and I loved it. I think I might do something like that once I start hatching my CL chicks.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: I think it depends .... my darker males are ALWAYS more colorful and tend to have a darker more delineated barring than my lighter boys but I know for some it is not an issue.

And the goal is to avoid the more color and stay close to cream for the SOP? I ask because I only want to feed up one rooster and 3 hatched. Two were light and 1 was dark downed. The choice would be really easy if I just picked the dark downed one to pair with the dark downed only female to hatch. And I understant that to pick the best rooster I would really need to grow out all three but with only 1 female and a few other roosters of different breeds, I'm choosing to keep only 1 CL rooster from this hatch.
If anyone is looking for a rooster chick or two from ebay eggs, feel free to come and get mine.