Cream Legbars

[Pinkaboo]

Can you tell if it's just feathers, or a fatty cushion? Feather trimming might help, but
I'd probably opt for tail trimming. Best wishes!

ITs just feathers

 

[Pinkaboo]

Why not if youʻre only cutting feathers and itʻs not too young?

I noticed today it opened its wings but it didn't effect the tail problem so maybe trimming the wings won't work

 

[cutipatooti]

Well my shipping days from Greenfire Farms are over thanks to the post office.  I tried this spring to unsuccessfully purchase some spitzhauben chicks on RareBreeds, 3 boxes of chicks total all dead at arrival or within a week.  Took another chance last month on a Rees line auction  again on RareBreeds, two boxes of nearly dead chicks later I have two pairs and that's all I'm going to get.  GFF won't ship to my area anymore because of the dratted post service.  I don't blame them!  And they did make it right by refunding the auctions both times.  Crossing my fingers I can get these babies to maturity!

So sorry to hear about your experience. I also got several of their auctions but had really great results. I lost one chick in a shipment of 12 that was DOA. I had a shipment of 31 chicks in a rare breed special and none were DOA but I did lose a few within the week. I have one spitzhauben chick from one of their specials. I guess I'm lucky mine are in my arms in less then 24 hours. But I'm in ny and within 1.5 hours of the airport they land at. Maybe you could get started chicks from someone. I wanted to order from California but was afraid. That's the main reason I went with Greenfire. I got my fingers crossed for your babies too.

 

[speedy2020]

I hatched a batch of chick in May and notice about them.
a) The male/female ratio 4:1
b) Most of the male comb flopped over one side like a leghorn's. Since this breed has brown leghorn, so that would be normal.

Does anyone notice the same thing? Is the floppy comb line lay more eggs than straight comb?

 

[HaplessRunner]

Well my shipping days from Greenfire Farms are over thanks to the post office. I tried this spring to unsuccessfully purchase some spitzhauben chicks on RareBreeds, 3 boxes of chicks total all dead at arrival or within a week. Took another chance last month on a Rees line auction again on RareBreeds, two boxes of nearly dead chicks later I have two pairs and that's all I'm going to get. GFF won't ship to my area anymore because of the dratted post service. I don't blame them! And they did make it right by refunding the auctions both times. Crossing my fingers I can get these babies to maturity!

Rinda,

This has been a much cooler summer than anticipated (at least here in VA). I received two Rees line 6 chick CLB shipments from GF and each had one DOA. The others were very lethargic and deeply chilled. Got them home to a warm brooder and the remaining 5 in each shipment perked up and are doing fine. Who would ever have thought that we would be worried about chilled chicks in July and August!

 

[HaplessRunner]

Pictures of my Rees line chicks. The larger ones are three weeks old and the smaller ones are one week old. This was their first time to mingle together since I was doing a a clean out of their respective brooders.

 

[GaryDean26]

I hatched a batch of chick in May and notice about them.
a) The male/female ratio 4:1
b) Most of the male comb flopped over one side like a leghorn's. Since this breed has brown leghorn, so that would be normal.

Does anyone notice the same thing? Is the floppy comb line lay more eggs than straight comb?

The Standard for the Brown Leghorn cockerel and ALL APA single combed breeds is for an erect comb.

The standard for the Brown Leghorn pullet allows for a comb that falls to one side. The Cream Legbar Standard is similar to the APA Brown Leghorn Standard in that the cockerels should have erect combs and that the hens are allowed to have a comb flop to one side.

The differences between the APA Brown Leghorn and the Cream Legbar is that the APA Brown Leghorn is a 5 pointed comb while the UK standard for the Legbar is 5-7 points (currently 6 points in the proposed APA standard). Also, the Leghorn has a comb which comes off the back of the neck with the bottom of the blade horizontal to the ground and the Legbar has a comb that slopes slightly downwards to where the blade following the line of the neck without touching it.
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Ohhh...and there is no correlation between comb floppiness and egg production. The flop is a combination of the size, height, and thickness of the comb as inherited from its mother and father.

If you have flopped combed cockerels I would suggest trying to breeding him to only hens that have short combs that don't lay to a side to see if you can get a more erect comb in the offspring.

In crested breeds the size of the crest also effect the comb so you also could try pairing flopped combed cockerel to hens with modest crest sized to keep the crest from getting the mad scientist hair-do look and to help keep the combs in line.

If you are only noticing flopped combs on your pullets, then your line is as it should be (not many are though since getting the combs right is very difficult on large single combed that follows the neck on a crested breed).

 

[La Vivi]

Pictures of my Rees line chicks. The larger ones are three weeks old and the smaller ones are one week old. This was their first time to mingle together since I was doing a a clean out of their respective brooders.

They are so CUTE

 

[speedy2020]

The Standard for the Brown Leghorn cockerel and ALL APA single combed breeds is for an erect comb.

The standard for the Brown Leghorn pullet allows for a come that falls to one side. The Cream Legbar Standard is the similar to the APA Brown Leghorn Standard in that the cockerels should have erect combs and that the hens are allowed to have the comb flop to one side.

The differences between the APA Brown Leghorn and the Cream Legbar is that the APA Brown Leghorn is a 5 pointed comb while the UK standard for the Legbar is 5-7 points (currently 6 points in the proposed APA standard). Also the Leghorn has a comb with comes off the back of the neck horizontal to the ground and the Legbar has a comb that slopes down following the line of the neck, but not touching it.
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Ohh...and there is not correlation between comb floppiness and egg production. The flop is a combination of the size of height of the comb and the thickness of the comb as inherited from its mother and father.

If you have flopped combed cockerels I would suggest trying to breeding him to only hens that have short combs that don't lay to a side. In crested breeds the size of the crest also effect the comb so you also could try pairing flop combed cockerel to hens with modest crest sized to keep the crest from getting the mad scientist heir do look and to help keep the combs in line.

If you are only noticing flopped combs on your pullets, then your line is as it should be (not many are though since get the combs right is very difficult on single combed crested birds with larger combs that follow the line of the neck).

I also notice the one with bigger crest tend to have more floppy comb.

 

[HaplessRunner]

I also notice the one with bigger crest tend to have more floppy comb.

The crests tend to push the comb forward or more likely to one side of the other.