Calling ALL - Cold Climate Cream Legbar Owners --
please HELP me answer a question that came into the Cream Legbar Club's 'contact us' section on the website...
Please help describe the cold tolerance of the CLs and also your location - and maybe your wintering set up -- like barn, coop, big coop tiny coop - etc. to help the questioner evaluate how appropriate the CL would be for their neeeds.
Thanks to all y'all.
Blooms on Magnolia Tree-- so what's more Southern than a Magnolia Tree? A Magnolia tree with a Mocking Bird in it........
I live in NH also. My Cream Legbar boys did not fare badly this winter. I had 9 in a 4 x 8 coop with 2 Marans roosters, so 11 in there, all roosters. I still cannot believe it worked as long as it did. My CLs did just fine. I have had them since 2011 in October so this was my 3rd winter with them. I'd say they do no better or worse than any other breed with a large comb. There comb seems sometime oversized on some birds. Frostbite? I think it has to do with the weather if it's dry or wet (we had some very cold winds, early winter was nice dry light snow, late winter very wet), the coop, it's ventilation, size and number of birds in there and maybe even where the bird chooses to sit at night. My BCM Marans rooster had the worse frostbite and lost the tippy tops of his tips on his comb. I think the youngest may have also but negligible and maybe my oldest boy but they got a few spots here and there and that may also be due to having all those boys cooped up together. My first rooster lost tips in 2011 from frostbite while my 2 Marans boys had the black tips but pulled through okay. In 2012 no loss of anything on any combs. This winter my BCM boy was the worst for the wear.I find the Legbar to be hardy as needed.
