Cream Legbars

[ChicKat]

Although your female is crest-less - she otherwise looks good and will probably give you a blue egg. or blue-green.

I hope the seller will make it right for you since you put so much time and feed into your chickens. There isn't a lot you can do in the selling category - except sell them as cockerels that most likely carry the blue-egg gene.

Hope it works out for you.

 

[enola]

Wow two rip off stories back to back!

 

[cynstaub]

Update.
The seller says "There's no possible way I sold you 4 hens and 2 roosters and they are 5 roosters now. These are auto-sex chickens which are easy to tell the differences as soon as they are born. There was nothing wrong with these chickens or their genders different than what I said".

She refuses to make it right and "stands by her sale"
Well, I learned an expensive lesson.

 

[enola]

So, is this "breeder" still active on this site?

 

[chicken pickin]

Update.
The seller says "There's no possible way I sold you 4 hens and 2 roosters and they are 5 roosters now. These are auto-sex chickens which are easy to tell the differences as soon as they are born. There was nothing wrong with these chickens or their genders different than what I said".

She refuses to make it right and "stands by her sale"
Well, I learned an expensive lesson.

Wow! That's all I have to say. She obviously doesn't mind if she gives herself a bad rep and a bad name.

Do you happen to have pictures of the parent stock by chance?

 

[losttexan]

This has always puzzled me, and I have never been able to come up with a good explanation, but why is there so much fraud, scamming and unprofessionalism in the animal trade worlds? I have seen the most disreputable practices in play among those who deal in horses, dogs, cats, and even reptiles. Why is that? Is it because, compared to an industrial product, there is little initial start-up capital? Is it because any yahoo can throw two animals in a pen and let them do what comes naturally? I'm sad to say from my two years of raising chickens, it seems to be rampant in this discipline as well. At the least, I encounter rude, unprofessional individuals emboldened by more demand than they can meet; at the worst, I find outright shysters who have no problem selling mislabeled breeds and sexes. What is a well-meaning hobbyist to do?

Which brings me to my real question for the excellent folks in the CL thread: Can anyone help me locate a reputable breeder willing to sell stock? As previously mentioned, I have have birds for a couple of years, so I am not a rank newbie, but still have much to learn. I have definitely been bitten by the bug, and want to expand my knowledge and enjoyment of chickens. I would like to start working on breeding to a (proposed) standard, and I like the CL breed. They are fun little intriguing birds. I like the egg color (I have a VERY small egg-selling side business, as most amateurs do), and I would like to work with them. I have no interest in pumping out eggs/chicks and becoming a "peddler" as I see so many others doing here and on auction sites. I do not want to simply buy "hot" breeds and make money taking advantage like what happened to cynstaub, and other countless individuals who trusted a misrepresentation. All I want to do is learn and improve the breed.

Does anyone have good suggestions for a business or individual that would be willing to sell two to three breeding trios (or quartets) of day-old crested cream legbars for a beginner breeder at a reasonable fair market price, and would be willing to stay in contact to develop a long-term/mentor relationship?

I realize this is a long shot and will likely engender many scoffs and eye-rolls, but I figure it doesn't hurt to ask.

 

[caychris]

This has always puzzled me, and I have never been able to come up with a good explanation, but why is there so much fraud, scamming and unprofessionalism in the animal trade worlds? I have seen the most disreputable practices in play among those who deal in horses, dogs, cats, and even reptiles. Why is that? Is it because, compared to an industrial product, there is little initial start-up capital? Is it because any yahoo can throw two animals in a pen and let them do what comes naturally? I'm sad to say from my two years of raising chickens, it seems to be rampant in this discipline as well. At the least, I encounter rude, unprofessional individuals emboldened by more demand than they can meet; at the worst, I find outright shysters who have no problem selling mislabeled breeds and sexes. What is a well-meaning hobbyist to do?

Which brings me to my real question for the excellent folks in the CL thread: Can anyone help me locate a reputable breeder willing to sell stock? As previously mentioned, I have have birds for a couple of years, so I am not a rank newbie, but still have much to learn. I have definitely been bitten by the bug, and want to expand my knowledge and enjoyment of chickens. I would like to start working on breeding to a (proposed) standard, and I like the CL breed. They are fun little intriguing birds. I like the egg color (I have a VERY small egg-selling side business, as most amateurs do), and I would like to work with them. I have no interest in pumping out eggs/chicks and becoming a "peddler" as I see so many others doing here and on auction sites. I do not want to simply buy "hot" breeds and make money taking advantage like what happened to cynstaub, and other countless individuals who trusted a misrepresentation. All I want to do is learn and improve the breed.

Does anyone have good suggestions for a business or individual that would be willing to sell two to three breeding trios (or quartets) of day-old crested cream legbars for a beginner breeder at a reasonable fair market price, and would be willing to stay in contact to develop a long-term/mentor relationship?

I realize this is a long shot and will likely engender many scoffs and eye-rolls, but I figure it doesn't hurt to ask.

Actually asking is probably the best thing you can do. I know GFF is supposedly the source but I know a couple of people on the Northern CA thread and Papa's Poultry on FB that do have CL eggs and chicks. @CackleJoy is where I got my first dozen hatching eggs and the person who baked them has problems with the bator and heat over the summer so I ended with 3 cockerels and one pullet from 22 eggs so she gave them to me. The boys would have taken more work than was worth it. I'm trying another egg supplier this spring so I cant vouch for their quality yet. But I would try CackleJoy's eggs again just to be sure. The girl is wonderful in my mixed flock of layers. I know that even taking someones slightly inferior culls is at least a place to start.

 

[cynstaub]

Sadly, you see right that the one hen does not have a crest. Out of the 5 roosters, only 2 have crests. Oh such a huge bummer.
Moving on, it looks like I need some more CCL eggs or chicks!

 

[cynstaub]

Oh & no, I do not have photos of parent birds. Seller told me that these chicks were hatched from pullet eggs from birds she got from GFF.
Yes, the seller is still active here on BYC.

 

[caychris]

Sadly, you see right that the one hen does not have a crest. Out of the 5 roosters, only 2 have crests. Oh such a huge bummer.
Moving on, it looks like I need some more CCL eggs or chicks!

Pine Creek Poultry on FB has CLB eggs if you are coming to the Modesto Show on they may be able to arrange for eggs there. Im getting a dozen there.