Cream Legbars

[KPenley]

Do CCL's blue eggs get a paler shade of blue the longer they lay?

Do you mean in each egg cycle? Or the older the chicken? I've found that my girls follow a cycle with the first eggs being the darkest, and if they have brown pigment...the greenest. They get bluer and bluer as the cycle progresses and then lighter at the end. Then it starts all over again. My oldest girls are close to two year olds so I don't know what happens when the hens are "old"

 

[enola]

That's how it works with my Araucana and EE's eggs, too.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Can you post a link or information about the thermometer that transmits to a remote location? I wonder if they have one that will send a signal to a smart phone? I bought a probe thermometer hoping to run the cord out where the turner cord is and then set up the alarm to let me know if it got to hot/cold. It was reading 8* higher than the other 2. After reading the instruction that came with it, its designed to take an internal temp and won't work without being in something. So I tried to make a homemade water wiggler but what should have been simple turned into more work than what it was worth. I was going to still use it and adjust according to the difference but since I'm not using it correctly, I'm not sure how reliable the probe would be.

On thermometers- often they aren't exactly on. I use a remote type, too, kind of like this one. I ran it side by side with a thermometer I trusted, then I took a piece of masking tape and taped it next to the temp reading and wrote with a permanent marker what the "running" temp should be. For example, running next to a thermometer I trust set to 99.5 it might read 102, so I write 102 on the masking tape and THAT is the temperature I keep the incubator USING THAT THERMOMETER only. I love the remote kind because I can glance at the incubator as I'm bringing eggs into the storage room and know that everything is OK without looking inside (I don't have a window or clear door on my cabinet incubators). I could even put the base in the kitchen and monitor the incubator temp from there.

Do CCL's blue eggs get a paler shade of blue the longer they lay?

Yes they fade over the course of the season and then are darker again after they molt.

 

[thowe]

Do you mean in each egg cycle? Or the older the chicken? I've found that my girls follow a cycle with the first eggs being the darkest, and if they have brown pigment...the greenest. They get bluer and bluer as the cycle progresses and then lighter at the end. Then it starts all over again. My oldest girls are close to two year olds so I don't know what happens when the hens are "old"

Yes I mean each cycle, sorry. Let me see if I got this right....they start out light blue and get darker and darker blue and then start to get lighter and lighter and after they molt it starts all over again. Is that right?

 

[chicken pickin]

If I used my CL rooster in a mixed pen of hens, would he pass a barring gene on to all his offspring?

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Yes I mean each cycle, sorry. Let me see if I got this right....they start out light blue and get darker and darker blue and then start to get lighter and lighter and after they molt it starts all over again. Is that right?

No, they start out medium blue (except for a brand new pullet that may have a few white eggs first) and get lighter and and lighter until they molt.

If I used my CL rooster in a mixed pen of hens, would he pass a barring gene on to all his offspring?

Yes. Cream Legbar roosters have two barring genes so each chick gets one. The hens are only single barred, so they can only pass the barring gene to their sons. If you have extra hens you can put them with a non-barred rooster to make sexlinks (how easy they will be to sex will depend on the rooster breed).

 

[chicken pickin]

Yes. Cream Legbar roosters have two barring genes so each chick gets one. The hens are only single barred, so they can only pass the barring gene to their sons. If you have extra hens you can put them with a non-barred rooster to make sexlinks (how easy they will be to sex will depend on the rooster breed).

That is what I thought. Thank You!

 

[thowe]

Thanks

 

[thowe]

If I used my CL rooster in a mixed pen of hens, would he pass a barring gene on to all his offspring?

What.....are you making?

 

[ChicKat]

Do CCL's blue eggs get a paler shade of blue the longer they lay?

in my experience, the first pullet eggs may be just slightly 'bluer' than the later ones -- possibly because the eggs increase in size as the pullet gets to maturity. It definitely has never been like the Marans type of color fading that occurs during the egg cycle, because with Cream Legbars, the color ISN'T a coating like the brown-laying breeds, but a pigment that is incorporated into the entire shell and it is blue both inside and outside unlike brown egg layers.

:O)



Rinda- I wonder if the white eggs you got have any connection to your white sports.