Cream Legbars

[chicken pickin]

Here is another Rees line chick, down color is a little odd and looks male

 

[estamets]

Came home from Easter and my CL was missing from the roosts! Impossible: they've been cooped up for 3 days.... Oh, there she is. In the nest. On some eggs. Growling at me.

My first broody; I have some decisions to make!

 

[chicken pickin]

Came home from Easter and my CL was missing from the roosts! Impossible: they've been cooped up for 3 days.... Oh, there she is. In the nest. On some eggs. Growling at me.

My first broody; I have some decisions to make!

YAY Broodies!!! Let us know if you let her have eggs. I don't think it is too often we see CL go broody. Id love to hear how she does if you decide to let her.

 

[ChicKat]

YAY Broodies!!! Let us know if you let her have eggs. I don't think it is too often we see CL go broody. Id love to hear how she does if you decide to let her.

X2 Over the years, I have had two CLs go broody -- mother and daughter - they both went the distance. IMO a CL broody is a gem and a good mother-hen too. Good luck with your choice.

 

[ChicKat]

cute chicks cp - It will be interesting to see them grow.

 

[ChicKat]

I have lost my baby CL. I knew the chances of her living were bad, but I gave it a try.

Hopefully, I will do better on the 2oth. I have 7 that I hope hatch that day.

Sorry for the loss of your little chick. Good luck with the 7!!

 

[chicken pickin]

cute chicks cp - It will be interesting to see them grow.

There are a total of 15 CL chicks hatched now, 2 more zipping and at least 2 more pips that I can see. This hatch is moving slow, we are going into day 23. Im thinking both my incubators might be running a little too cool.

Only 9CL hatched from my original CL flock, and 6 from the Rees flock also the ones pipping and zipping are from the Rees flock. Once hatch is over I will try to get some group pics of each.

Do you think that light chick I posted is a recessive white or just a very pale male?

 

[Debs55]

OK question for y'all, I'm pretty positive that its my leg bars that are laying not the EE's, but if I hatch them do you think I will be able to tell for sure or would the chicks still look pretty much the same since they would have come from a leg bar male?

 

[ChicKat]

There are a total of 15 CL chicks hatched now, 2 more zipping and at least 2 more pips that I can see. This hatch is moving slow, we are going into day 23. Im thinking both my incubators might be running a little too cool.

Only 9CL hatched from my original CL flock, and 6 from the Rees flock also the ones pipping and zipping are from the Rees flock. Once hatch is over I will try to get some group pics of each.

Do you think that light chick I posted is a recessive white or just a very pale male?

With the little that I know about both sources - i.e. recessive white and Rees' chicks, I'm not the person to ask - so I hope others with more experience in white and Rees will chime in to answer. Never-the-less that doesn't stop me from speculating that it isn't a recessive white. I'm thinking just a very pale male --- ;O)

ETA -Sorry to say to white recessive fans, but with out wild-type (aka duckwing) and without barring - I don't think that multiple generations of recessive white will be autosexing -- but I may have already stated that on threads. So - with a definite headspot on cP's chick -- I think it is not a WR.

 

[ChicKat]

OK question for y'all, I'm pretty positive that its my leg bars that are laying not the EE's, but if I hatch them do you think I will be able to tell for sure or would the chicks still look pretty much the same since they would have come from a leg bar male?

Hi Deb,

I would think that it could be really hard to tell a 1/2 CL chick --