Cream Legbars

[bamadude]

Where can i get 1 of those color charts?

 

[enola]

I cannot agree more with estamet! The whole reason I wanted CL was for the blue eggs. But, despite the fact the my hens lay slightly bluish eggs, I will continue trying to breed them because the hens are so sweet! But, i have to admit, I have EE that lay beautiful BLUE eggs.

 

[enola]

The American Draft Standard says that the eggs are blue or green. Although blue is listed first the wording says that both are equally acceptable (otherwise it would say something like blue eggs, but green eggs also allowed). The original British Standard allows for blue, green or olive eggs. We removed the olive color allowance when we wrote the standard for several reasons.

Out of curiosity, what lead you to the conclusion that only blue eggs are allowed? Many people think that and I am trying to figure out where that idea came from. Perhaps if we can locate the source we can get it corrected so there won't be as much confusion.
I think that is a fine colored egg! Congrats. It looks pretty big for a first effort--have you weighed it

My June hatch girls are all laying. Most of the birds are probably closest to an OAC 123 (as were most of the hatching eggs I received from 3 different breeders) although if I have my family look at the eggs and match them to the OAC, the colors they tag are sometimes different than I identify the same egg--it's pretty weird. I just took pictures of this mornings take alongside the blue and the green pages of the OAC. They are a richer slightly bluer color than 123 but not quite to a 151: and it seems like the colors of the eggs are slightly different in the two pictures but they are taken seconds apart:

Pretty eggs!

 

[estamets]

Fun fact! Blue was the last color receptor that humans developed, and our ability to see blue varies wildly from person to person. Blue is the only color my husband and I argue about- he thinks most of what I see as blue is lavender.

 

[Rancher3535]

I am just glad my girls are starting to lay again. With 24 pullets in the pen they had reach an average of 15-18 eggs a day and had a bunch who had not started laying yet. When we went from about 50 degrees to 10 and 5 degrees over night and poof all of my birds went down. I was picking up 70+ eggs a day and went down to 20 with in a week. My Cream Legbars pullets 24 in all went from 15-18 to zero but yesterday I found 5. Been raising chickens for well over 35 years and never has that happened. Just glad that all of them are getting back on board to lay.

 

[chicken pickin]

Where can i get 1 of those color charts?

OAC - Online Auction Color chart

http://www.thisnext.com/item/EDE2E374/The-Online-Auction-Color-Chart Here is one link

 

[dretd]

Where can i get 1 of those color charts?

I got mine on eBay. I am not sure if the original publisher is still doing these. They may have just done a batch run and stopped. I recommend googling Online Auction Chart and see who is selling them these days. I want to say it was around $7. I know some breeders have just ordered the Ameraucana egg color chart from the Ameraucana folks. Neither is perfect, but its helpful to have a color chart that multiple people can look at.

 

[dretd]

Fun fact! Blue was the last color receptor that humans developed, and our ability to see blue varies wildly from person to person. Blue is the only color my husband and I argue about- he thinks most of what I see as blue is lavender.

Its the same way in my family, I was really surprised when each of us took the same egg and held it up to the OAC and said it matched a different color!

I checked GFF and they list the CL as laying pastel eggs that are sky-blue to light green in color, so its not the importer that is marketing the eggs as blue only.

Embarrassingly, on the Cream Legbar Club's website there are a few places that only say blue egg laying instead of blue or green egg laying--I thought we had gone through and fixed those incongruities. Chickat said she will do her best to get them fixed. I hope it was not from our website that you felt misled about the color!

If there are specific other sources that come to mind where you have seen the chickens marketed as blue egg layers, it would be helpful for you to PM me and I can take a look at their marketing literature. I wonder if some of the problem stems from the fact that the 'O' genes that codes for the color is referred to as the blue egg gene. So one could say that Cream Legbars carry two copies of the blue egg gene but they lay a blue or green egg. Just because they carry the blue egg gene doesn't mean that they only lay blue eggs. Then as you point out, there is the problem of our perception and descriptions of blue varies so much from person to person!

 

[enola]

There is a lot of advertising out that says they lay blue eggs without mention of green being acceptable.....

 

[KPenley]

Beautiful eggs Dr. E! One of my pullets just laid what may be a OAC 150 2 ounce egg! I'll have to check under better lighting later though. Usually at that size and larger the eggs are faded. Color wise, I consider seafoam in the blue family so color really can be subjective to the viewer.