Cream Legbars

[caychris]

Sure

they're very young, so please keep us updated with how they grow! Keep an eye on boy 2. I like a lot of things about his shape and light neck/ hackles. Again, they're very young. Your pullet also looks like she has some potential. Once she gets some meat on her bones I think she will have a nice long shape too. Love the barring in her crest and it looks like she'll have cream in those hackles! Best wishes!

Thanks that was the kind of thing I needed. I love the personality of the last boy he is a love. Ill keep and eye on them.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Sure

they're very young, so please keep us updated with how they grow! Keep an eye on boy 2. I like a lot of things about his shape and light neck/ hackles. Again, they're very young. Your pullet also looks like she has some potential. Once she gets some meat on her bones I think she will have a nice long shape too. Love the barring in her crest and it looks like she'll have cream in those hackles! Best wishes!

X2 they are a bit young to tell much yet.

 

[bamadude]

I think they look delicious

 

[bamadude]

That was a joke but i only heard crickets chirping

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Lol

 

[DCchicken]

That was a joke but i only heard crickets chirping

I can't hear the crickets over the cicada. They never shut up. Where is that Guinea flock when you need it.

 

[sol2go]

Off topic question -
Would you mind if I asked who in Cali you got the blues from? YOu can PM me if need be. Thanks.

Both my Marans and Legbars lay at about 24 weeks give or take. I had one LEgbar that laid a single egg at about 21 weeks but then waited a week or so to lay another.
My eggs are a paler blue than I'd like but they seem typical and on target for the breed from what I see. This year I hope to keep from my breeding pen girls that lay a good size egg and are larger in size themselves. I am looking at egg color but not sure what to do to improve other than choose the hens whose eggs I prefer color wise each year. I have some Rees line birds but have to wait on the color for several months yet. I have not seen a whole lot of very dark saturated blue eggs anywhere online for this breed.

HI! jumping back into the conversation...thanks for your note blackbirds13, my blue FBCM came from Heidi at Union Hill Ranch near Stockton, CA. I think she is on Facebook and BYC.

I have some egg color pics I'll try to post sooner...or later =)

I took comparative pics of my FBCM eggs, and then I matched up some Wheaton Ameraucana blue eggs with my best CL...I hope to keep working on the CL blue color. Appreciate anyone's experience with that. I also like the saturated blues, even if they tend a little turquoise. The pale blues almost need to be set next to a white egg to amplify that they are blue.

 

[sol2go]

I'm kind of in transition with my BCMs. I lost almost my entire flock last winter, I'm down to 2 hens and have sourced some chicks/eggs from some other breeders to get a comeback. The rooster I have has tried to flog me several times, as soon as I have a replacement he goes. I'm not thrilled with his conformation, either. Got him at the Shawnee Show in December as a chick. Of the 3 I bought 2 were keepers and 1 of those died so I'm kind of stuck until these grow up.

On the CLs, I've not tracked it closely but I feel average is about 24 weeks. I'm not working on egg color right now except to keep it the same. I am weeding out heterozygous Oo blue egg layers as apparently my foundation rooster only had one blue egg gene, and now it is spread into my flock.

I have two very nice boys from another breeder that will go into the new Cream Legbar pen I am building. My neighbor gave me his large rabbit hutch, I am going to convert it into three quarantine pens and start penning and hatching from my CL hens which all have numbered bands now. Then comes the waiting game while I wait for the pullets to grow out and start to lay. Very slow and frustrating.

This is their new pen, I still have to fix the gates and make some modifications to the 8ft x 8 ft coop.

Hi Rinda, thanks for your post and pic! The nice clean chair is very inviting...except I'm guessing that is a humid sky not a cool shady day?

 

[sol2go]

If you were asking everyone...in general my CL pullets start to lay at 24 weeks, but I have had some in this generation start at 18-19 weeks. I agree with Rinda that it probably depends on the line and also with time of year they are hatched. In terms of blue egg color, Punnett matched his barely blue egg layers together generation after generation, choosing birds from the bluest eggs to match together each time. Over the course of years, the blue intensified.

absolutely =)
I hope we all see more blue as a result of the various elements we are working on (blue eggs, blue sky...)

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Hi Rinda, thanks for your post and pic! The nice clean chair is very inviting...except I'm guessing that is a humid sky not a cool shady day?

LOL We had a weird cool front come through that day, about 2 weeks ago, it was in the UPPER 70s and LOWER 80s for about 3-4 days, which is almost unheard of for July! We are above 110 for the heat index today and it is MUGGY. We are having another cool front moving through next week. It has been a STRANGE weather year all year! They are predicting a worse than normal winter, too, so we are getting things set up AHEAD of time with electric to several of the coops, and this one large coop for all the laying hens.

And the chair was only clean for the afternoon- by the next day it had goat poop all over it.