Cream Legbars

[bamadude]

OAC - Online Auction Color chart

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

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[dretd]

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.

I don't use supplemental light, so maybe your situation is different than mine. My older girls generally stop laying when they do their fall molt starting in October or November. They then start laying again somewhere between late December and March depending on the breed. My Brahmas tend to restart latest, my heritage breeds in February, and the Cream Legbars and Welsummers in January.

This year the pullets have been very productive and only stopped laying this fall when that nasty cold spell came through. I think the temp drop from the low sixties one day to -6 the next night was too much for their systems and most stopped laying for about 3 weeks and have mostly restarted again. I have never had any serious problems with comb frostbite either before this year even though its gotten much colder than -6 (-20s is very common) so I have to believe it was the rapid temp drop and temp differential-- dropping 65+ degrees in 2 days is quite a lot for them to handle!

 

[bamadude]

Ty

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.

 

[bamadude]

These blue eggs are from legbars....greens are isbars...and brown Marans

 

[chicken pickin]

These blue eggs are from legbars....greens are isbars...and brown Marans

Nice. Did you set these for the HAL?

 

[bamadude]

No i hatched these last july. I am hoping for eggs soon...and then olive egger projects

 

[ChicKat]

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.

That is a drastic drop in eggs and temps -- I think that they are probably correlated as Dr.etd says.

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

Reminds me of the beginning when we first got CLs - and no one had any old enough to lay as of yet....so we were all raising our chicks - and waiting for those blue eggs. Yes - they have been billed as blue egg layers..since the inception.

In fact, as I recall, our first drafts of SOP only mentioned blue eggs - not blue or green like it does now. Then when the first eggs came - some folks were thrilled and got 'sky blue' and some got more blue green or even green. -- All those colors are 'acceptable' -- We even found some studies about how to intensify the blue.

Most people who want CLs do want them for the added color in the egg basket, from what I have heard. I think that is one of the reasons that we started using the color chart so that in one state someone could talk about a color with someone on line in another state.

I guess it is an education process.


Araucanas and Ameraucanas are also billed as blue egg layers -- and they also have a range of colors from blue to green...and those are based on true eggshell colors - compiled by Mr. Fank Decmar of the UK -- pretty brilliant idea IMO.

http://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGA/Arau/BRKArauEgg.html

This page from Feathersite shows the egg color charts from those breeds. -- scroll to the bottom of the page and see the winning eggs in the show at the UK 'Nationals'.....it's enlightening.
:O)

 

[enola]

I use my chart to decide on color for all of my hens. So far I have not gotten a single CL egg that is on the 'blue' page. But, my hens are so sweet that I am going to try another season of breeding them!

 

[ChicKat]

These blue eggs are from legbars....greens are isbars...and brown Marans

nice assortment of colors!!

 

[ChicKat]

I use my chart to decide on color for all of my hens. So far I have not gotten a single CL egg that is on the 'blue' page. But, my hens are so sweet that I am going to try another season of breeding them!

Do you get a range of colors - or all one color? Are you considering the 'blue page' the one that has a 4 in the black triangle in the lower corner?