Cream Legbars

[ChicKat]

Cream Puff (18 weeks), please bear in mind that she is pretty young and needs to grow in more...plus the flash made her feathers look red (I guess the camera picked up on the red part of the taupe)...and her primary feather is sticking out because I upset it when I dropped her when my daughter scared her with the flash.

She really is pretty...nice long back, and nice tail angle, nice yellow legs too. You will have to update us on how she does in the show. Thanks for the post.

 

[GaryDean26]

I will have to check on that with my 10 month old cockerel. He was 5-1/2 lbs at the final sorting (6 months old). I now have him penned next to a 19 month old Basque Cock Bird and they are nearly the same size. The Cream Legbar has the fuller rounder breast, but the Basque has a wider body so I am guessing the Basque is a little heavier. I am guessing the CLB is about 6-1/4 lbs. and the Basque about 6-1/2 lbs.

The English standard is for 6 to 6-1/2 lbs cockerels and 7 to 7-1/2 lbs cocks. So if you are breeding to the standard you will want your boys to be over 6 pounds by the time they are 12 months old.

I put "Yellow Mello" on the scale today. At 42 weeks old he weighed in at 5# 14oz.

Below is a photo of him from 4 months ago.

 

[chicken pickin]

I put "Yellow Mello" on the scale today. At 42 weeks old he weighed in at 5# 14oz.

Below is a photo of him from 4 months ago.

He is a handsome boy! How do you feel about his weight at that age?

I really need to get a scale...

 

[ChicKat]

I put "Yellow Mello" on the scale today. At 42 weeks old he weighed in at 5# 14oz.

Below is a photo of him from 4 months ago.

Nice cockerel, he out-weighs my old guy (5 1/2-pounds) - but the next generation - from the first hatch of my GFF pair the 2-year old is 6 1/2 - so your guy will probably outweigh him and hit that magic 7.

Speaking of weights...my 13-week-olds weight gain leveled off-- and I wormed them - and the following week they each gained 1/2 pound. A scale is a good tool to have!

 

[KPenley]

Wow Curtis! Yellow Mellow is doing great! I love the name, and can't wait to see how he continues to grow!

And Kathy, your improvement is remarkable! A whole pound in one generation is amazing!

 

[GaryDean26]

He is a handsome boy! How do you feel about his weight at that age?

I really need to get a scale...

I am very happy with his weight. Most of the cockerels I have be getting would be 5 to 5-1/2 lbs at this age.

 

[ChicKat]

Wow Curtis! Yellow Mellow is doing great! I love the name, and can't wait to see how he continues to grow!

And Kathy, your improvement is remarkable! A whole pound in one generation is amazing!

Thanks KP - It is nothing of my doing actually, it is all the -roll of the dice- and the work of the parent stock, and the nutrition the kids had.

BTW last year TheTropix had a CL rooster that was 7-pounds. That is probably enough heft for a CL rooster. We are considered a medium-sized breed right? - and the USA has light, medium and heavy while the UK omits the medium - so the CL is considered light over there...or are we light over here too?

 

[KPenley]

Thanks KP - It is nothing of my doing actually, it is all the -roll of the dice- and the work of the parent stock, and the nutrition the kids had.  

BTW last year TheTropix had a CL rooster that was 7-pounds.  That is probably enough heft for a CL rooster. We are considered a medium-sized breed right? - and the USA has light, medium and heavy while the UK omits the medium - so the CL is considered light over there...or are we light over here too?  

Well congratulations on your diligence of worming and great nutrition then

Yes, 7 pounds for a cock bird is ideal! We don't have weight classes over here for chickens ( just ducks and geese) like they do in the UK( you're right-light and heavy for chickens, medium added for ducks and geese), but surprisingly most of their light class fowl would be considered dual purpose here ( hens generally around 6 pounds, Cock birds 7-8 pounds). Light breeds are just expected to carry their own weight across the pond
While the APA uses the weights themselves to shape a fanciers/ judges view of a bird, we do use the UK class words to describe egg layers ( light), dual purpose ( medium), and broilers/meat birds ( heavy). I think Cream Legbars fit somewhere in the light/medium or small medium description.

 

[faykokoWV]

I thought I'd share a picture of this little guy growing out - his parents were both CLB - I have 100% GFF stock and I'm on my adult birds are 2nd and 3rd generation out of my original stock

I have two of these boys that hatched this year.. I 'm still trying to decide what to do with them!

 

[DCchicken]

I thought I'd share a picture of this little guy growing out - his parents were both CLB - I have 100% GFF stock and I'm on my adult birds are 2nd and 3rd generation out of my original stock

I have two of these boys that hatched this year.. I 'm still trying to decide what to do with them!

If they had blue feet then they would look just like my Cream Legbar x Bresse hybrids. I love the white crest. But personally I think it is going to be difficult to remove the white sports from the flock. Others will probably speak up about this. My Cream Legbars don't have that in them. I culled heavily to improve the flock and make it closer to the SOP. But if you do decide to keep them, I would recommend informing all buyers that your flock can produce them. Some people will not want to have to deal with white sports popping up in the hatches.