Cream Legbars

[enola]

The people on this thread are much nicer than some people on the threads on heritage breed threads. I called a male chicken a rooster on the Heritage Plymouth Barred Rock thread and almost got tarred and feathered.

I was rudely informed that if I didn't use the proper vernacular it proved I wasn't really interested in what was best/needed for heritage breeding.

Like I said these folks are nice people

 

[dee06]

I am getting 2 leg bars for 20€ here in Ireland and I am wondering wat their temperament is

My Mildred loves to sit on my shoulder and to be near me when I spend time in the run, she is approx 7 wks and really sweet

 

[chambe94]

Sneaky little wenches!!! I guess I have more laying than I thought! ( there are Isbars in there too)

 

[ChicKat]

Great input all !!!

I got CL because I want blue (real blue) eggs ... so as I - personally - go forward with my flock - I will be choosing the best colored eggs ... I will have two flocks - one mixed and one blue layers. That is why the SOP will not matter to me going forward - BUT in buying my stock - I wanted some with for sure blue eggs .... Seems I am already starting off with a mix.

I choose the hens and roos that are hardest, then the best layers and then color for my mixed flock ... so I have healthy first and egg color - with not too much care to particular feather coloring or back slop and that jazz ...

Nothing wrong if you are into that - after all - I WANTED stock from owners like that to start off with ..... I'll try to get pics of the 2 browner roo and the hen - then you guys can give me your best guess - but if they are mixed ... then it looks like they will be not of the blue egg flock - but of the mixed flock and dinner table.

THANKS so much for the input - you actually answered me better than you all seem to think.

great idea about a flock of blue layers. You will see the pullet face get very red, and the comb grow larger and also very red... sometime around 24-weeks old seems to be when they begin to lay. Pullet's eggs are small - but they will increase in size a little with every successive egg - until your pullet reaches her full egg size. :O)

 

[ChicKat]

Sneaky little wenches!!! I guess I have more laying than I thought! ( there are Isbars in there too)

Those sneaky wenches --and not only that, but plotting together. Had one CL that I thought was off laying until I found she made her own nest and hid 10-eggs.

 

[ChicKat]

The people on this thread are much nicer than some people on the threads on heritage breed threads. I called a male chicken a rooster on the Heritage Plymouth Barred Rock thread and almost got tarred and feathered.

I was rudely informed that if I didn't use the proper vernacular it proved I wasn't really interested in what was best/needed for heritage breeding.

Like I said these folks are nice people

What?? You dared to call a rooster a rooster??? How DARE you??

 

[Metella]

So ? you had to know cockerel, rooster, whatever ? That was pretty mean spirited. Like they were born knowing all of this.

Well - I was very happy with my answers here ! Now - to get those others to slow down long enough to get some good pictures ...

 

[donrae]

The people on this thread are much nicer than some people on the threads on heritage breed threads. I called a male chicken a rooster on the Heritage Plymouth Barred Rock thread and almost got tarred and feathered.

I was rudely informed that if I didn't use the proper vernacular it proved I wasn't really interested in what was best/needed for heritage breeding.

Like I said these folks are nice people

I understand the theory behind using the correct terms, but folks also need to understand for some of us, the correct term for an adult male bird was not a word we were allowed to use growing up, it was considered quite vulgar. Same as the correct term for a female dog. I don't use either one when referring to the animals, even though I know them. It's how I was raised and you can't always change that. Don't especially want to, either

 

[enola]

I tried that very logic.........remember Bee? She explained it to them very clearly. Their answer to that was we needed to get our minds out of the gutter........

I left that thread with a whole new understanding of you can't cure stupid

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Some updated pics of my keeper boy- best of all the boys I kept from my 2014 breedings. His tail was plucked by a dog when he got out of his pen so I can't show it off, but it was nice! I included a rear shot so you can see the width of his body and his wide leg set. I will try to get a weight on him tomorrow, but he feels pleasantly hefty.