Cream Legbars

[CommanderBaa]

I have 6 to choose from. 1 has a dinky crest & 2 might have crooked/floppy combs. They are regular line, not Rees, but 4 of 5 hens are cream. Yay! Thanks for your reply!

 

[chicken pickin]

To anyone that finds this interesting, I was just looking over the Greenfirefarms website and I noticed in the Cream Legbar section the statements below, I copied and pasted from GFF.

The premium line of Jill’s chicks are now available and are currently the only bloodline of legbars being hatched at Greenfire Farms.
Each female chick is $29, and each male chick in $19.

I didnt know they were currently only hatching and selling Rees line chicks. Also the price of males and females is a dramatic price drop.

 

[chicken pickin]

I have 6 to choose from. 1 has a dinky crest & 2 might have crooked/floppy combs. They are regular line, not Rees, but 4 of 5 hens are cream. Yay! Thanks for your reply!

Having 6 to choose from is fantastic. Im sure they all have some good qualities and some not so good. Always trying to start with the best overall male and females you have is ideal. And if you get a chance to post some pics others may be able to give you some opinions and advice.

Sometimes you have to look at it from another perspective.

Sometimes you don't even need to pick your best male by just comparing all your males to eachother, but by also looking at the females you have to pair with them. If you have some good pullets you can carefully choose a male that will compliment the hens. A lot of times just choosing your overall best hen and then pick the one male that compliments your her best. Lets say your best hen has a a really long back and low tail angle and you have a male you really like but he has a really high tail set and short back(he isn't nessecarily a cull) you could pair him with her to get offspring with hopefully nice low tail angles. Same goes for comb, crest, wing carriage, back length and angle. Looking at the matchups you can make might give you the best offspring. And then you may end up with a male in the next generation that is better than his father. Even pairing just your one best male and oine best female that compliment eachother will give you enough eggs to hatch and enough offspring to growout to end up with a handful of better CL for next breeding season.

 

[CommanderBaa]

You've got to appreciate Greenfire's business model! It'll be interesting to see if or when they bring another line of legbars over. I am loving my regular ol' lines legbars. They are neat birds & mine haven't started laying yet. Is it possible to have a more colorful rooster that is considered cream? Or as others are saying, the SOP will make a balancing act of no color cream & more colorful to correct issues raised by no color males?

 

[ChicKat]

You've got to appreciate Greenfire's business model! It'll be interesting to see if or when they bring another line of legbars over. I am loving my regular ol' lines legbars. They are neat birds & mine haven't started laying yet. Is it possible to have a more colorful rooster that is considered cream? Or as others are saying, the SOP will make a balancing act of no color cream & more colorful to correct issues raised by no color males?

That may be the case.....we are looking at some 'colorful' males in comparison to the SOP in this thread here....infact the males walk-thru is completed and not it is the females turn.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...tive-legbars-sop-discussion/410#post_14649681

 

[ChicKat]

To anyone that finds this interesting, I was just looking over the Greenfirefarms website and I noticed in the Cream Legbar section the statements below, I copied and pasted from GFF.

The premium line of Jill’s chicks are now available and are currently the only bloodline of legbars being hatched at Greenfire Farms.
Each female chick is $29, and each male chick in $19.

I didnt know they were currently only hatching and selling Rees line chicks. Also the price of males and females is a dramatic price drop.

That is certainly a price that makes the CL available to a wide group of people who wish to start with the breed, isn't it?

ETA: all the prices are lowered -- Isbars used to be $100/ea didn't they? And Ayam Cerami were $1000/pair (or was it 5,000?) and....Spitzhaubens were higher. They probably have their back-orders all caught up - and are lowering prices for the -brrrr - winter...and then may need to raise again when demand in spring goes up. They are smart and nimble in the way they do their business....and I hope they continue as a resounding success.... it has been so great to have these rare breeds!

Sad to see the old line CLs go away. I just obtained a hen from descendents of the first Line A -- how do I get so lucky to have such diversity I dunno....but I have the luck that's for sure. She has a fairly teeny crest that is all gray -- very different genetics from the rest of my hooligans here.

 

[CommanderBaa]

Here are some pictures of my Cream Legbars hatched in September from Greenfire's 2014 non Rees Legbars. Thanks in advance for any input. I would like to choose 2 roos to keep.This is the roo with a small crest straight comb #1



This one I thought was "creamier" than the others. #2


These two currently have a little crook/flop to their combs. #3 & #4


This is not a good picture of the Comby (He had a giant comb as a week old). # 5

#6 was not taking pictures today. He has a straighter comb and a orange crest. Colored like the majority.


Some of the ladies didn't want to be left out. Do their crests tend to lighten as they get older?

Thanks!!

 

[KPenley]

Commanderbaa, I really like number 1, even though I can't see the crest from the front. Nice head, long back, good tail angle, nice lower sickles already, tight wings, beautiful barring, appropriate chestnut. That may be the best saddle barring I've seen here. Watch for better barring in the secondary flight feathers of his offspring.
I can't decide a second...They all need some growing in of course, but you have a lot if good features to choose from. I would look for straight combs with crests, long backs, low tail set, high wing set, good barring, and a difference between the lighter top coloring and bottom line darker coloring (typical cream crele pattern). Which are your favorites? Best wishes!
PS. Yes, some girls lighten their crests after their first molt.

 

[chicken pickin]

Commanderbaa, I really like number 1, even though I can't see the crest from the front. Nice head, long back, good tail angle, nice lower sickles already, tight wings, beautiful barring, appropriate chestnut. That may be the best saddle barring I've seen here. Watch for better barring in the secondary flight feathers of his offspring.
I can't decide a second...They all need some growing in of course, but you have a lot if good features to choose from. I would look for straight combs with crests, long backs, low tail set, high wing set, good barring, and a difference between the lighter top coloring and bottom line darker coloring (typical cream crele pattern). Which are your favorites? Best wishes!
PS. Yes, some girls lighten their crests after their first molt.

I agree with KPenley. I like number 1 for all the reasons listed.

I think for a second pick I like number 4. He to me has the best type, even with the odd camera angle I like his back and his low tail angle. I do however think he is quite dark in color but I like his type a lot.

I do not like num 3 or num 5 it may just be the pictures but they seem to be hump backed and that's not a good trait.

And the pullets are very very lovely.

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

Got our 1st ccl egg today

Congrats!