Cream Legbars

[sol2go]

I am soooo very excited today! I found my first Rees egg!!!

She must have laid it yesterday.

Another fan of the rich shell color! (and I admire the size of that pullet egg too!)
I suppose many of us started out with CL's because of the blue eggshells.
It will be a pleasure when some of the other breeding hurdles are out of the way and we can focus on adjusting egg shell characteristics.
For example, besides a saturated blue, I'm hoping for a little gloss on the shells =)

 

[ChicKat]

Another fan of the rich shell color! (and I admire the size of that pullet egg too!)
I suppose many of us started out with CL's because of the blue eggshells.
It will be a pleasure when some of the other breeding hurdles are out of the way and we can focus on adjusting egg shell characteristics.
For example, besides a saturated blue, I'm hoping for a little gloss on the shells =)

That is so interesting - a gloss or matte discussion bubbled up a while back. Is it a selection approach? - some will have a bit glossier than others - and by selecting those for hatching the trait is intensified? That is a great idea... I think I need to have a google moment about what causes eggshells to be glossy or matte - and this is pretty esoteric. Where is Tadkerson now-a-days? that may be something right up his alley!

 

[chicken pickin]

It would be interesting if we could select for the egg finish. All of my CL have laid more of a matte egg, that I can recall I have not gotten any glossy eggs from them.

Isnt the matte or gloss of an egg breed specific? I do have other breeds lay more of a glossy egg, but never my CL.

 

[dheltzel]

It would be interesting if we could select for the egg finish. All of my CL have laid more of a matte egg, that I can recall I have not gotten any glossy eggs from them.

Isnt the matte or gloss of an egg breed specific? I do have other breeds lay more of a glossy egg, but never my CL.

The only glossy eggs I get consistently are from our (pet quality) silkies. Light cream color and very glossy. Occasionally I see them in the LF eggs, but not consistently. I think there are both genetic and environmental factors and not a single, fixed cause - but that's just my theory.

Eggs also get glossy from aging, leading me to think there are external influences. All the unhatched eggs I toss from the incubator are glossy.

 

[sol2go]

That is so interesting - a gloss or matte discussion bubbled up a while back. Is it a selection approach? - some will have a bit glossier than others - and by selecting those for hatching the trait is intensified? That is a great idea... I think I need to have a google moment about what causes eggshells to be glossy or matte - and this is pretty esoteric. Where is Tadkerson now-a-days? that may be something right up his alley!

It would be interesting if we could select for the egg finish. All of my CL have laid more of a matte egg, that I can recall I have not gotten any glossy eggs from them.

Isnt the matte or gloss of an egg breed specific? I do have other breeds lay more of a glossy egg, but never my CL.

The only glossy eggs I get consistently are from our (pet quality) silkies. Light cream color and very glossy. Occasionally I see them in the LF eggs, but not consistently. I think there are both genetic and environmental factors and not a single, fixed cause - but that's just my theory.

Eggs also get glossy from aging, leading me to think there are external influences. All the unhatched eggs I toss from the incubator are glossy.

My Wheaten Ameraucana has consistently laid a glossy/shiny/waxy? blue egg. The blue is also the nicest blue of any of my layers, and easy to separate from the others. I had a CL with a nice shine to her eggs which were a lighter blue, and she was a good layer, but I decided not to breed her because of too many non-conforming traits. So I don't know if she could have passed along a shiny eggshell gene...

 

[ChicKat]

It would be interesting if we could select for the egg finish. All of my CL have laid more of a matte egg, that I can recall I have not gotten any glossy eggs from them.

Isnt the matte or gloss of an egg breed specific? I do have other breeds lay more of a glossy egg, but never my CL.

Cool new avatar cp!!!!!!!!!

 

[chicken pickin]

Cool new avatar cp!!!!!!!!!

Thanks! The snow in the background really helped give the picture a nice look I think.

 

[tdhenson86]

I just wanted to show everyone what I'm working with right now in my Legbars.

 

[chicken pickin]

They are very nice looking!

 

[ChicKat]

Nice chickens Tim,
gorgeous color of yellow in their legs! What do you feed them?