Cream Legbars

[KPenley]

I have had some good results letting the eggs sit still in the incubator the first few days, before starting the turner, and have had cells reattach and healthy chicks. Best wishes on a great hatch Debbie!

 

[dretd]

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I know exactly how you feel --my hubby was grumping about the pullet eggs when he made brekkie this Sunday!

I personally have set both detached aircells and porous eggs with no problem. If you keep the gees big end up and don't turn for a few days they seems to settle in and you get a saddle cell--but as the cell enlarges over time its not really noticeable. I would hatch in a carton instead of laying the chick on its side.

If the aircell is ruptured (free floating gas bubbles in the egg) I pitch it. If the egg oozes albumin at any time I pitch it. If there is crappola on the egg then I wash the egg (yeah, I know you're not supposed to) then surface treat with an antibacterial--you can use dilute bleach, hydrogen peroxide (this will make the eggs lose more moisture) or even oxine. Better that than have a delicious feast for bacteria coating the egg shell that will then get blown by the fan all over the inside of the incubator and onto other shells! At least that's my take.

 

[DRGLENNON]

I have had some good results letting the eggs sit still in the incubator the first few days, before starting the turner, and have had cells reattach and healthy chicks. Best wishes on a great hatch Debbie!

Thanks!

How about porous eggs?(I'm not complaining I received extra) Do you think those should be set? I started thinking about those eggs last year and scared myself. I just don't want leaky eggs in the incubator.

 

[ChicKat]

Fortunately I took some pictures a couple of months ago, these are the brothers/sisters of the palest girls in the pictures:

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I am so in love with your chicks -- they are so cute and fuzzy -- they are just adorable!!

 

[chicken pickin]

Thankyou all for being so accommodating, I will source some better pictures of my girls and also my males and eggs - and I agree Emily and Jill are both fantastic breeders and I wouldn't want to have started with anything else!

I don't know much about the CLB standard in the US, but I have looked through a lot of the photos on this forum and I can see that the birds in general are much darker than we typically find in the UK, also the crests don't seem to be a prominent. Although I understand that there are a lot of people posting pictures of their CLBs on here that are from hatchery backgrounds and therefore aren't bred to such a high standard so appear much more gold - this isn't so much a problem in the UK because most birds are sourced from private buyers ( however that doesn't eradicate poorly marked birds making there way to the markets).

From what I hear, US CLB breeding seems to be very focussed on egg colour, something I think could be getting in the way of the appearance of the birds. People are breeding a blue egg layer rather than a CLB and I think that damages the CLB reputation a bit - but this also happens to an extent in the UK.

Overall I think that breeders in the US seem to interpret the standard in a slightly different way. Which I quite like, particularly when associated with crest colour and the darker overall body colour of the legbar. I enjoy seeing birds that differ slightly between breeders - for example breeding a bird for a grey crest rather than a crest the same colour as the hackles. In addition, I can't say I like the darker grey coloured bodies seen on a large percentage of US legbars as much as a like the paler grey coloured legbars, but that's just personal preference. I particularly like Greenfire's CLBS, I think they are gorgeous!

I hope this has helped a little bit, if you want to know any~more, I'm happy to help

Thank you for sharing you views with us. I think it will help others along the way to have both views, UK and US, to help us move forward.

I also personally am breeding towards the less colorful CL as that is how I personally interpret the SOP, though maybe increasing the cream color to show up more warm and buttery in color is a thought . In my breeding plans I am breeding away from the large amounts of chestnut color within the CL males. I also like the looks of the lighter "cool" gray tones in the female, Here in the US we do mostly see dark gray, brown tones, and taupe. But with CL still being so new to us it is still very much a work in progress for us all.

 

[ChicKat]

DRGLENNON - Good luck with your hatch -- this is an exciting time!

 

[Clucksworth]

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I am so in love with your chicks -- they are so cute and fuzzy -- they are just adorable!!

Thankyou, is this what the US CLBs look like too?

 

[Clucksworth]

Thank you for sharing you views with us. I think it will help others along the way to have both views, UK and US, to help us move forward.

I also personally am breeding towards the less colorful CL as that is how I personally interpret the SOP, though maybe increasing the cream color to show up more warm and buttery in color is a thought . In my breeding plans I am breeding away from the large amounts of chestnut color within the CL males. I also like the looks of the lighter "cool" gray tones in the female, Here in the US we do mostly see dark gray, brown tones, and taupe. But with CL still being so new to us it is still very much a work in progress for us all.

Yes, everyone has to start somewhere! As you say, it's early days in the US. Hopefully people will start to become less reliant on JR's eggs and a few new strains will start to appear that combine the more US bird colours with the UK birds. As we all know the SOP is open to interpretation so people can "personalise" their own flocks quite easily

Here at home we prefer CLB roos with no chestnut at all - they are simply barred all over, they also have to have a perfectly straight comb ( no wobbles or wibbles allowed), good baring all over, no white wings, good yellow legs, and a good crest.

 

[KPenley]

Thanks!

How about porous eggs?(I'm not complaining I received extra) Do you think those should be set? I started thinking about those eggs last year and scared myself. I just don't want leaky eggs in the incubator.

I get nervous about porous eggs, but you could always try them. Check once a day for weeping, then if you see any tiny bubbles, get them out of there! If they are going to weep it will most likely be in the first week. Best wishes!

 

[KPenley]

Thankyou, is this what the US CLBs look like too?

These chicks hatched this past weekend, and I took these pics Saturday. They are offspring from combinations of all 4 Greenfire lines and JR.

If you still want observations about your beautiful birds I'll be back later