Cream Legbars

[luckysaysgo]

Yes! I think it is just about exactly 26 weeks..she has been practicing with the egg box for two days now. I think sis will be ready soon. I'll post her with her first egg..I'm really liking this breed

 

[ChicKat]

Yes! I think it is just about exactly 26 weeks..she has been practicing with the egg box for two days now. I think sis will be ready soon. I'll post her with her first egg..I'm really liking this breed

Love hearing that...and what's not to like? ;O)

 

[La Vivi]

OK, I'm new to this, and it's only 4 weeks along, but I'm worried one of my "sex-linked" cream legbar pullets, Paula, is actually a roo. It's a little harder to compare her to my other two pullets, as she is a week older than them, but... Purchased from My Pet Chicken/Meyer, sexed. She has always had unusual head markings (interrupted V), and was "blonder" than the other pullets, but no clear white spot. Her back had a very well defined center stripe and two very clear side stripes. (She looked like a little bumble bee when she was tiny). Eyeliner. Her feathers coming in (so far) are rounded (not pointy). AND she was supposed to be vent sexed. But... She has always had that alert, tall stance and attitude, since the beginning (she's in my avatar). Her feathers have come in much more slowly than the younger pullets, esp. tail feathers. Her comb seems to be getting a bit big (though again, she's older, so I can't compare). She chest bumps and wing flaps a lot. All my chicks get one on one time with me, and while she enjoys her own time, she doesn't like it at all when I take one of the pullets out of the brooder and away from her. I figured, no way. But... I SWEAR, just now, she tried to crow - several times. She's 4 weeks old. Photos below at about 2 weeks and 4 weeks. What do you guys think? Confirm my suspicions? Ease my mind? - Ant Farm

I'm not an expert, but she looks like a girl to me

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

I'm not an expert, but she looks like a girl to me

She has only made the baby crowing sounds when I take one of the others out of the brooder and out of the room, when she gets really upset wondering where they are. I have been reading all the posts/threads on BYC about crowing hens (honest to goodness, "I saw an egg come out of this chicken" crowing hens), and I have all my fingers and toes crossed that that is what it is. She was alone for about a week at age 1-2 weeks (and so sad and chirpy until I got her a mirror), and she is sort of the alpha over the younger two (in addition to just being older), which seems SORT OF in line with other hen-crowing stories... I will be stubbornly optimistic unless/until all becomes clear.

Meanwhile, I regularly tell her to think girly thoughts. I think it may be helping. (Yeah, right...)

- Ant Farm

 

[caychris]

She looks girl to me. The Stippling in the feathers is usually a give away. If she is pure legbar that is.

 

[ChicKat]

She has only made the baby crowing sounds when I take one of the others out of the brooder and out of the room, when she gets really upset wondering where they are. I have been reading all the posts/threads on BYC about crowing hens (honest to goodness, "I saw an egg come out of this chicken" crowing hens), and I have all my fingers and toes crossed that that is what it is. She was alone for about a week at age 1-2 weeks (and so sad and chirpy until I got her a mirror), and she is sort of the alpha over the younger two (in addition to just being older), which seems SORT OF in line with other hen-crowing stories... I will be stubbornly optimistic unless/until all becomes clear.

Meanwhile, I regularly tell her to think girly thoughts. I think it may be helping. (Yeah, right...)

- Ant Farm

IMO - telling her to think girly thoughts will be a definite help! You may end up with a crowing hen, or an egg-laying rooster....

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

IMO - telling her to think girly thoughts will be a definite help! You may end up with a crowing hen, or an egg-laying rooster....

I also keep telling her that I respect her lifestyle choices, and that I will always love her no matter what. And she can get all the tattoos and piercings she wants. But I still expect her to go to college - um, I mean, I really want eggs.

 

[ChicKat]

I also keep telling her that I respect her lifestyle choices, and that I will always love her no matter what. And she can get all the tattoos and piercings she wants. But I still expect her to go to college - um, I mean, I really want eggs.

LOL -- what a lucky chicken to have such a supportive family (I really did laugh out loud!) --

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Paula takes exception to being discussed without her input. She took a selfie she wanted me to post, to express her displeasure...

 

[La Vivi]

I have two chicks that hatched yesterday. The mother is a creme legbar, the father is a white sizzle silkie. I was told several years ago on this thread that this cross would still produce a sex-linked chicks. Here are the pics and I would love all of your opinions on what you think the genders are