Cream Legbars

[KernH]

LOve that egg color -- that is gorgeous!

ETA - it is large too -- is that a pullet egg or a hen starting up after molt. Do you weigh eggs? I'm curious about the size you have there.

Wow! Brilliant blue. Kern

 

[KernH]

My girl is about 5 months, and her comb and wattles have grown exponentially in the last week or so. She still seems very small, but this is my first time with the breed. Could she be close to laying?

My two Legbar pullets started laying with their combs much smaller than yours. Kern

 

[KPenley]

In response to a previous post, here is my male for 2015. Please excuse his lack of tail feathers, some of my naughty hybrids pulled them out! And some more of his girls.

Ok, sorry it took so long for me to get back to you Clucksworth! Your pullets/hens have beautiful crests and I love the ones that match the hackles, but that is a personal preference thing on my part. I can not see the top of the head, but the heads appear to have a nice balance and shape. Despite the small wickle, the combs are a great medium size and nicely serrated. Great white earlobes and bright red faces, earlobes and combs! The backs look nice and long, from what I can see, and have a great width at the heart width area! I love the top hen's wide tail feathers and tight wing set. Here in the USA we breed for a wider set tail, a little wider at the base of the tail and like a tent from the back, but I know the tighter tail is more popular in your area. Color wise, your girls are nicely barred in grays and cream. I like a little more color to the salmon breast, as well as less shafting there, but I know lighting often bleaches these areas in photos too. The one area that I would work on is the breast. Your hens seem to have a short keel, but of course I would have to hold them to tell for sure, and it could just be needing a bit more flesh. This causes them have a slanted or cutaway breast area, and to lack the parallel top and bottom lines desired in Legbars. If you pair your girls with a rooster with a longer keel and strong smooth breast, it should help to produce pullets with a deeper rounder breast and eliminate that vertical line down the center. Best wishes with your beautiful birds!

 

[estamets]

So be sure that you pick up on that advice from chicken pickin. I usually try to worm the pullets before eggs start up too (Depends on if you use a regular worming schedule)---- Just another sign of spring - and this egg to add to their feed this morning. That shell is so fragile that it is like paper-thin.

Thanks! I have free choice oyster shell in the run, but I haven't seen her pick at it yet, just the older girls.
This is my first spring with chickens... I wasn't planning to worm. I've had one hen with a recurring worm problem - 3 separate courses of Safeguard so far, and thankfully no recurrences for the last few months.
How do you worm yours?

 

[estamets]

My two Legbar pullets started laying with their combs much smaller than yours. Kern

Oh boy! She comes from a line with big floppy combs and smaller crests, so she could be just halfway there. I guess I'll know when it happens!

 

[estamets]

Here are a couple more and an egg! I found 4 eggs yesterday but only one today but it is a beauty. Being a little farther north, we have to wait a little longer for the girls to get started.







The eggs are from my Rhodebar, silky and the CLB

It's huge!!!

 

[Clucksworth]

Ok, sorry it took so long for me to get back to you Clucksworth! Your pullets/hens have beautiful crests and I love the ones that match the hackles, but that is a personal preference thing on my part. I can not see the top of the head, but the heads appear to have a nice balance and shape. Despite the small wickle, the combs are a great medium size and nicely serrated. Great white earlobes and bright red faces, earlobes and combs! The backs look nice and long, from what I can see, and have a great width at the heart width area! I love the top hen's wide tail feathers and tight wing set. Here in the USA we breed for a wider set tail, a little wider at the base of the tail and like a tent from the back, but I know the tighter tail is more popular in your area. Color wise, your girls are nicely barred in grays and cream. I like a little more color to the salmon breast, as well as less shafting there, but I know lighting often bleaches these areas in photos too.
The one area that I would work on is the breast. Your hens seem to have a short keel, but of course I would have to hold them to tell for sure, and it could just be needing a bit more flesh. This causes them have a slanted or cutaway breast area, and to lack the parallel top and bottom lines desired in Legbars. If you pair your girls with a rooster with a longer keel and strong smooth breast, it should help to produce pullets with a deeper rounder breast and eliminate that vertical line down the center. Best wishes with your beautiful birds!

Thankyou for getting back to me, and thanks again for your opinion.

Having just looked at some pictures of the CLB show winners from last year I agree that my girls do have a shorter keel - something I wasn't aware of before.Despite the fact that the majority of the pictures are of the birds pictured are pullets I must admit that they do lack the longer keel that is more acceptable - this feature has now been added to my to do list!

The tighter tails are more popular over here in the UK and I haven't bred my chucks in anyway to change that. At the moment I'm just trying to keep the heads how I want them and gradually change the colour of my girls to a more silver/cream opposed to the darker greys and golds seen in some other birds whilst also maintaining the all important egg colour!

I really appreciate you taking time to give me feedback, without this I wouldn't have had the length of the keel brought to my attention - something I can improve on before I think about showing.

Many thanks

Izzy.

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

Here are a couple more and an egg! I found 4 eggs yesterday but only one today but it is a beauty. Being a little farther north, we have to wait a little longer for the girls to get started.







The eggs are from my Rhodebar, silky and the CLB

What a pretty blue egg! The other day all four of my pullets laid the same day so I took a picture for comparison. I will try to find it. I have one that I am hopeful will be a pretty blue too. Though I don't think it is that brilliant!

 

[Scatterknit]

So are any of our cream legbar folks going to the show in Newnan, GA this month? I think it's the Chattahoochee Valley Poultry Association meet at the Coweta County fairgrounds. I want to go over and browse and would love to see some CLs!!

Flaming Chicken that is the most beautiful blue!!! Congrats!!!

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

Now that I look at the picture it isn't nearly as blue as I remember. I will blame it on the fluorescent lights in my kitchen

The third one from the left is my blue egg prospect, the other three are definitely greenish blue. I still don't have an oac color chart for any comparison.