Cream Legbars

[chicken pickin]

My second Rees pullet started laying yesterday also

I got 2 eggs from them this morning. Im very excited. This egg color is also on the green side .

 

[ChicKat]

My second Rees pullet started laying yesterday also

I got 2 eggs from them this morning. Im very excited. This egg color is also on the green side .

For the Cream Legbar Club's newsletter, I email interviewed Jill - and she said that in UK they don't care as much about the color of the egg.

That being said IMO -- as long as there is a nice saturated color--- bring it on. The Cream Legbar Club's VP wants us to be careful about saying 'blue eggs' - when blue green is in the mix.....We don't want the breed to be oversold, however - I think that the Jill Rees line is kind of known for a greener blue egg.

BTW - your photo of colored egg basket is beautiful - which ones lay the pink looking eggs?

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

I feel like I am always a little late to the game but I have been thinking about chicken pickins post about breeding plans this year. This is my first breeding with CL's so I am still a little unsure. My current plan is to create a trio from my four pullets and rooster and do a small test hatch to see how they turn out. I chose my two girls that have the best body type and clearest salmon breasts.

Since my birds are so closely related I am going to try to hatch some shipped eggs as well to add to my current group because I need some diversity.

I am also going to try my hand at some Emerald Sexlinks (ala chicken pickin!) or SLW X CL. I already have a friend that wants some and I just love the way they look. I might try to make some laced CL's as future project just for fun.

 

[chicken pickin]

For the Cream Legbar Club's newsletter, I email interviewed Jill - and she said that in UK they don't care as much about the color of the egg.

That being said IMO -- as long as there is a nice saturated color--- bring it on. The Cream Legbar Club's VP wants us to be careful about saying 'blue eggs' - when blue green is in the mix.....We don't want the breed to be oversold, however - I think that the Jill Rees line is kind of known for a greener blue egg.

BTW - your photo of colored egg basket is beautiful - which ones lay the pink looking eggs?

When I talk to other people I try to not use blue eggs as a description but let them know that often they are greenish blue or even green. Some people seem very turned off by this since this breed has been way over sold as blue egg layers. Its a little bit of a bummer that we are seeing green more often than not but maybe one day we will bea able to work on eggs color to get more blue egg layers out of them.

That is very cool you did an interview with Jill, Ill be excited to see this interview, this will be in the newsletter? Has she shared her thoughts on how she feels about seeing her stock here in the US? Im sure she has read good and bad things from people that have her stock. I hope in the future she likes what she sees as people works with her line.

I agree that the saturated egg color is a good thing and we don't want them to get too pale. I will continue to try to work towards blue eggs (hopefully saturated) but I will try not to get too stuck on it

 

[ChicKat]

The Jill Rees interview is in the Cream Legbar Club's "Clubhouse" - open to all members of the Club -- it was in Vol 1 No 2 under publications.... All our newsletters are supposed to reside there -- but I see we are missing Vol 2 No 3 . And Vol 2 No 4 - for 4th Quarter of 2014 is ready to go I think -- it was plagued with software and computer snaffu's from our Club's newsletter editor...

Anyone who's a Club member and has a problem accessing - just PM me.

Jill did say that she hoped that we would Like her line, last I was in touch with her and while they were still in quarantine in the US import facilities....

Regarding BLUE -- remember that the Ameraucana and the Araucana are said to be Blue egg layers and they have a color chart with a lot of colors that are acceptable. --

ALL the color squares around the edges are acceptable - and some of them truly are green to my eye... But don't they usually refer to them a blue egg layers -?

Just found this thread---haven't read it - but that is where I got the above image. ;O)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/410449/ameraucana-eggs-difference-in-color

ETA - we do get our blue egg gene from the Chilean hen -- and Patagonia -- right? so they are a sister breed - egg color wise.
LOL I want A1 or A6 or A15!!


BTW Club secretary Rinda Meyers did a correlation between the above style chart and the OAC and that resides in the Club house too.

 

[chicken pickin]

For the Cream Legbar Club's newsletter, I email interviewed Jill - and she said that in UK they don't care as much about the color of the egg.

That being said IMO -- as long as there is a nice saturated color--- bring it on. The Cream Legbar Club's VP wants us to be careful about saying 'blue eggs' - when blue green is in the mix.....We don't want the breed to be oversold, however - I think that the Jill Rees line is kind of known for a greener blue egg.

BTW - your photo of colored egg basket is beautiful - which ones lay the pink looking eggs?

Im not sure which egg basket pic you are referring to, I take too many pics lol to be sure.

 

[ChicKat]

Actually it's an egg carton -- with lots of colors. :O)

 

[caychris]

I'm probably a year or more away from Breeding CLB's. I'm still working on developing a stock of CLB to breed. Im planning on hatching most of my stock so I'm in search of eggs from diverse sources.

I think this spring will be when I start breeding Delawares.

 

[jerryse]

I have a trio to breed from . I have started hatching the few eggs I am getting . Due to the frostbite problem I am considering going to rose combs in my CCL .

 

[sol2go]

I have a trio to breed from . I have started hatching the few eggs I am getting . Due to the frostbite problem I am considering going to rose combs in my CCL .

Since the USA is such a large country, it seems reasonable and useful to have a variation on the theme for our different climatic conditions. We have seen some sad examples of frostbite...