Cream Legbars

[ChicKat]

Hi!

I received some CL eggs that I purchased on Ebay. One was broken (they were pretty dirty, too) and when I opened it up it was not fertile...so, I'm a little skeptical that any of them will be fertile.

But, the reason for my post is that I expected the eggs to be more "blue". The eggs I received are only very slightly bluer than my EE eggs. Is this normal color? I sanitized them and set them under a broody tonight.

These are the eggs and they are more blue in the photo than in real life.


The top egg is my own egg and you can clearly see it is fertile....the lower photo is the CL egg and you can clearly see it is NOT fertile...and it's very pale and cloudy like it's old.

Good luck with your eggs!!

 

[KPenley]

Great pics of your beautiful young birds Rinda! I am loving blue bands' front line and check out the barring on the last pullet's tail! Woohoo!

 

[blackbirds13]

My hatch this week.

 

[DCchicken]

My hatch this week.

Nice chicks! Have you decided to keep white recessive in your main breeding groups? Or do you maintain a separate line for white recessives? With the number of chicks I already hatched out this year, I definitely don't have the white recessive in my breeding group and I am a little curious about them.

 

[rnchick74]

My hatch this week.

Nice looking chicks! I'm hoping to add a female to my flock - my chicks are coming July 14. I'm learning so much in this thread.

 

[blackbirds13]

Quote: I definitely did not have white recessives in my flock for 2 generations then pop they came - not a lot just a few - I think a total of 6 or 7 so far . The white chick in this photo is from a pairing of White Sports I kept to see if the pairing was as lethal as some were saying. I managed to hatch one egg after in 3 tries so they are viable but may need a good bator (I have lockdown humidity issues) and maybe an unrelated pairing may be better, but they do reproduce consistently. I do think they are beautiful birds but going to concentrate on other things so these may be off to Utah soon.

I have 14 hens and I'm pretty sure it's just one pairing that is making them as I have only gotten 2 so far this year and none in this batch. I have a suspect hen which I am going to test with the suspect rooster. The white recessive genes are in the GFF gene pool and have popped up in all the generations from what I have seen since they mix each old one within the new one. They have popped up in Britain also. I saw someone post some on the fb forum that they said came from Rees birds so....It's like when I posted that my hens never go broody and they had not since 2011 then all of a sudden I had 2 start to set.
I am going to keep one of the older Sport girls and maybe the 2 younger pullets to test hatch- plus they are gorgeous. I think my other rooster that I lost to a predator was the culprit and I think the girl is one with type I really like is the hen in question. There is a lot hiding in the genes that does not show up right away but when you start breeding and line breeding will do this also, things happen that you may not expect. The nice thing is you can breed it out over time or through a process of elimination if you desire or you can keep it if you like the look of the birds. If it were more wide spread with my 4 boys and 14 girls I'd be popping out white chicks all over the place but they are very sporadic. The breed is way too young for anything to be a definite in my opinion.

 

[enola]

My hatch this week.

Is the chick in the upper right hand corner a pullet? ...... so much to learn about this breed!

 

[blackbirds13]

Quote:
Yes, I think she is from my rooster that has indistinct barring that I have pulled from my pen. I kept 3 roosters with 3 different type of barring along with one of my Alphas from last year, so I have 4 cream boys at work - 2 have dark barring, one has more distinct cleaner barring and then the one with the smudgey chest (my suspect for this chick above). I like his type and he is a big boy but his barring is not very precise and I was curious what he would throw. She has all the markings of a female and could not be confused with my males which are turning out very nice and light this year but her back stripe is not solid and that is not a good thing. I have another batch this week with eggs from different pens and roosters so I'll be able to make some judgments from that. I have some that I am really looking forward to seeing in this batch. Having a nice big flock has its blessing but also makes seeking out culprits difficult but allows for a lot of different pairings.

 

[enola]

Yes, I think she is from my rooster that has indistinct barring that I have pulled from my pen. I kept 3 roosters with 3 different type of barring along with one of my Alphas from last year, so I have 4 cream boys at work - 2 have dark barring, one has more distinct cleaner barring and then the one with the smudgey chest (my suspect for this chick above). I like his type and he is a big boy but his barring is not very precise and I was curious what he would throw. She has all the markings of a female and could not be confused with my males which are turning out very nice and light this year but her back stripe is not solid and that is not a good thing. I have another batch this week with eggs from different pens and roosters so I'll be able to make some judgments from that. I have some that I am really looking forward to seeing in this batch. Having a nice big flock has its blessing but also makes seeking out culprits difficult but allows for a lot of different pairings.

Thanks for the explanation. My pullet just started laying so I am trying to learn what to look for when I start hatching her eggs.

 

[rnchick74]

Anyone know any breeders near Louisville KY?