Cream Legbars

[lonnyandrinda]

A few days late here is 3 weeks old on my female chick project. It is cold and windy and they are in the outside brooder now so there was no point in trying to get a side by side photo this week. But I included the side shot since they are getting to the point they all look the same from the top. Most of them are starting to get their cream feathers in on their head and neck but a few still have baby down up there.

Blue band: (still one of the biggest although some are catching up to her)




Brown Band: (still the smallest chick)




Green band:




This is Black Band. The only black band I had was a reused one and she got caught on the wire floor of the brooder twice because of it. So I switched her to orange band since that chick is deceased.




Pink band:






White band:

 

[enola]

Green band has lots of salmon on her chest....... is that bad? Will the salmon fade as she gets older?

They are all so cute!

 

[blackbirds13]

Looks like you're gonna have some nice looking girls in that bunch Rinda! Nice work.

 

[KPenley]

Green band has lots of salmon on her chest....... is that bad? Will the salmon fade as she gets older?

They are all so cute!

Salmon is great! And standard. The others will get theirs eventually

 

[enola]

OK, I was just wondering since only one of them showed the salmon. Although I can only see so much with my phone screen being so small

 

[HaplessRunner]

A few days late here is 3 weeks old on my female chick project. It is cold and windy and they are in the outside brooder now so there was no point in trying to get a side by side photo this week. But I included the side shot since they are getting to the point they all look the same from the top. Most of them are starting to get their cream feathers in on their head and neck but a few still have baby down up there.

Blue band: (still one of the biggest although some are catching up to her)




Brown Band: (still the smallest chick)




Green band:




This is Black Band. The only black band I had was a reused one and she got caught on the wire floor of the brooder twice because of it. So I switched her to orange band since that chick is deceased.




Pink band:






White band:

Rinda,

What are your thoughts on the apparent "gold" heads some of them are showing at this age. It may be too soon for judgement but this inquiring mind would really like to know what to look for the stages of development. I got lucky with my first pullets but all the later ones have been too dark and some black spotting on a few breasts.

I have a clutch of eggs in the incubator coming in three waves now from my own first grouping pullets covered by my best roo. All told, I have 30+ eggs in some stage of incubation. I have also found that my cream girl lays a slightly larger egg than my gold head/cream hackle girl. So I have marked these accordingly and will separate the eggs during lock down.

Your thoughts are appreciated!

Tony

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Looks like you're gonna have some nice looking girls in that bunch Rinda! Nice work.

Thank you! Yours are coming along very nicely, too- I was browsing your new photos on FB the other day.

Rinda,

What are your thoughts on the apparent "gold" heads some of them are showing at this age. It may be too soon for judgement but this inquiring mind would really like to know what to look for the stages of development. I got lucky with my first pullets but all the later ones have been too dark and some black spotting on a few breasts.

I have a clutch of eggs in the incubator coming in three waves now from my own first grouping pullets covered by my best roo. All told, I have 30+ eggs in some stage of incubation. I have also found that my cream girl lays a slightly larger egg than my gold head/cream hackle girl. So I have marked these accordingly and will separate the eggs during lock down.

Your thoughts are appreciated!

Tony

At first glance it confused me, too, but then I noticed the more "gold" headed ones are still sporting their chick down, the ones turning cream already are growing their hackle feathers early. So I'm not really concerned by it. Plus given the ratio in my pen of gold to cream birds I would be very surprised if more than one of these girls is actually gold (heterozygous for cream).

These girls are outside for the first time tonight- and it is windy and cold. Gave them a 75 watt lightbulb and they are pretty well sheltered from the wind in the baby pen but I'm still a little worried about them! They will be fine I just keep telling myself. I went out to check on them about 9 PM and there was a little bird that had flown into the coop somehow and was stuck, they were all going a little nuts about it flying around above them. But even once I opened the door the wind was so strong the poor little bird couldn't fly out, I actually cupped it in my hand to bring it out over the roof line so it could fly away!

 

[chicken pickin]

Lonnyandrinda- even though the chicks are very young, are you liking or preferring the coloring on some chicks over the others, if so which ones are you personally thinking might turn out nicer than others? (again I know they are so young but just curious on your thoughts)

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Lonnyandrinda- even though the chicks are very young, are you liking or preferring the coloring on some chicks over the others, if so which ones are you personally thinking might turn out nicer than others? (again I know they are so young but just curious on your thoughts)

Looking at the day old pictures, I would have guessed blue, brown, and black to be lighter as adults, with green a medium. The other girls I would have called dark.

At this point they are in the process of losing their chick down, some more advanced than others, so it is hard to tell for sure. I think blue is still noticably lighter than the others though. In addition blue has consistently been gaining weight faster than the others which is attractive to me since I am sure my birds are slightly underweight at adulthood. I have not weighed them but assume that given their comparison to my other breeds and knowing the US stock seems undersized.

 

[Rancher3535]

So far I have 35 little ones out with a fairly good ratio of male/female. Knock on wood more on the female side than male. Here are a couple of pics of the little ones. the girls... the boys...

I traded eggs last year with someone in CA and out of the 24 plus eggs I hatched last year 12 chicks. 10 males and 2 females. I culled down to 4 out of the 10 males. (the others had bad combs or wry tails) With only two females it has been easy to keep the eggs separated because of shell texture and color. Each of chick has a toe punch according to who the female was.

MR P is in the pen now faults that I see...has a little red in ear lobe, a white tail feather and I am sure more.

Another 20 to to hatch from him and need to move males around.

So working with the males I have to choose from which of them would you use if any and why?
(of course they pose so well for the pictures and I am sure have a ton of faults so look between the lines)

MR DB major fault that I see...has a lot of white in the tail.

MR G faults that I see...very dark, had one tail feather that has a white section but all others are barred.

MR LB I am more inclined to use him because he has a little better confirmation than the other two but is the smaller male of the three in that pen.

So I am open for suggestions as to who should go next.

Thanks!
Rob