Cream Legbars

[ChicKat]

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...

Good point. Possibly this year FlyingMonkeyPoop will have enough rosecombs or enough hatching eggs to provide some folks with hatching eggs etc.

 

[enola]

FMP had a predator attack. I am not sure how many birds he had killed, or what breeds:

 

[ChicKat]

FMP had a predator attack. I am not sure how many birds he had killed, or what breeds:

Correct, he is in rebuilding mode. I'm pretty sure that he has safe rosecombs.

 

[chicken pickin]

Correct, he is in rebuilding mode. I'm pretty sure that he has safe rosecombs.

Exactly, I think I remember him saying that he had a person close by to him that he had previously sold some of his RC CL and he was looking to get a male back.

 

[jerryse]

I plan to start from scratch for rose combs by using light brown leghorn hens with rose combs . This should also reduce any green tint to the eggs .

 

[enola]

I plan to start from scratch for rose combs by using light brown leghorn hens with rose combs . This should also reduce any green tint to the eggs .

I have a CL/brown leghorn cockerel that I am going to use over my CL hens this year. (Until I can get another CL rooster). I wondered if using the leghorn cross rooster would help with the green egg problem.

 

[ChicKat]

I plan to start from scratch for rose combs by using light brown leghorn hens with rose combs . This should also reduce any green tint to the eggs .

I'm pretty sure that is what FMP already did. ;O)

 

[ChicKat]

I have a CL/brown leghorn cockerel that I am going to use over my CL hens this year. (Until I can get another CL rooster). I wondered if using the leghorn cross rooster would help with the green egg problem.

You are going to have to document for us. Your F1's would be light blue -- (assuming only one blue egg gene right?) -- and then going forward you can select for the best color. Do you have super green , or sort of green. ?


These are Cream Legbar eggs that got 2nd place in a poultry show -- against all the eggs that were non-white, non-brown -- so there would be greens in there, olives and all the blues. I'm sure that these were the only CL eggs in the competition, and the category would have contained Ameraucanas and Araucnas -- I should have gotten a photo of the first place eggs...but you can see a bit of the 3rd place egg on the right, and it looks a bit greener. Of course all the factors - shape, size, shell etc. are judged -- not just color -- but it is a feather in the cap (crest?) for Cream Legbars. Not to imply that the bluest will win - although it kind of sounds like that is what I am saying... the prettiest will win. LOL -- I think saturation is a factor too.

 

[enola]

My eggs from the first hen were green. All 3 are laying now, one of them is more blue than green. I was looking at the cockerel this morning, he doesn't have much chestnut yet. His chest is a nice charcoal at this time. Two of his tail feathers are barred, but the rest are not. I suspect when he molts, those bars may disappear. No crest yet.

 

[enola]

His back appears to be gently sloped and reasonably long. His tail is higher set than I like, but better than his sire. His breeder said the father had one gene for cream, so maybe that will keep his chestnut under control? Crossing fingers for this.