Cream Legbars

[KPenley]

BTW, not everyone massages combs, like not everyone makes their birds wet mash every day I've just found that massaging a little VetRx or olive/coconut oil into the combs and gently moving the blade over to where it should be during the growing process can help train the comb to grow straight in some birds. Also helps to heal little scrapes from rooster squabbles.

 

[Flaming Chicken]

Thanks for posting pictures, it is so neat to see everyone's flocks - and on line -- no biosecurity threats or the visit. In the 2nd pict. the two on the left have hackels with very little black pigment - the one in the foreground shows more dark feathering in the hackles. Do you see any other differences in the comparison of their color expression such as different shades of salmon - or differences in crests?

 

[Flaming Chicken]

@ Flaming Chicken, thank you for sharing pics of your birds! Since the hens are equally influential to the offsprings' combs I hope some of those beautiful girls produce the cockerel combs you are breeding towards this year. Massaging the combs regularly during development can help a bit in minimizing curves in the blade.

Thanks for the tip!

 

[BuffyBugSlayer]

Brown leghorns or gold legbars look very similar too and are fairly common. Im not seeing barring or crest at the moment but maybe its there.

Yeah, she definitely isn't pure. She has slate legs and what looks like a sort of pea comb and no crest. She does have barring and cream hackles though. I only noticed because I zoomed in on the green "chick" that was behind her. Turns out the green chick is actually some kind of fruit thing lol.

 

[Flaming Chicken]

Here are some pictures of my 5 week old chicks.


I posted pictures of this little one on Face book. At first I thought it was a cockerel because it's missing the clear chipmunk stripes, also missing a white spot so I wasn't sure.

Turned out to be this lovely little pullet in picture #3. She will be joining my neighbors layer flock since she was not easily autosexing at hatch.



This is my cockerel with the bigger crest and his comb starting to flop to the left.



This is my cockerel with the tiny crest but more upright comb.



And here they are in a clump


The 2 white ones are cockerels. If I get a white female this summer, I might try breeding some white sports for fun.

 

[KendyF]

Here are some pictures of my 5 week old chicks.


I posted pictures of this little one on Face book. At first I thought it was a cockerel because it's missing the clear chipmunk stripes, also missing a white spot so I wasn't sure.

Turned out to be this lovely little pullet in picture #3. She will be joining my neighbors layer flock since she was not easily autosexing at hatch.



This is my cockerel with the bigger crest and his comb starting to flop to the left.



This is my cockerel with the tiny crest but more upright comb.



And here they are in a clump


The 2 white ones are cockerels. If I get a white female this summer, I might try breeding some white sports for fun.

Very beautiful little pullet. The rest are very nice too, but I really love that pullet. Hmmm, I have a few I am not sure that they are too. I was thinking I might have hatched an EE egg... But now I see that girl I better grow them out some.

 

[Bean789]

Here are some pictures of my 5 week old chicks.

And here they are in a clump


The 2 white ones are cockerels. If I get a white female this summer, I might try breeding some white sports for fun.

I may have missed parts in this thread about the whites but I have a question or 2 about them. I received some hatching eggs of F1 Sulmtaler X Cream Legbar and 1 of them hatched out very, very creamy white and I think it is male. I thought it might have come from the Wheaten Sulmtaler side of things but now is the 2nd time I have seen the whites from Cream Legbars. Even though it was from a mix, it looks just like the ones in this picture, without any crest...yet. He/She hatched March 25, 2015.

How often do you get whites from your hatches and are they mostly males? Are the males in your breeders a very light color as compared to the darker colors?

 

[Flaming Chicken]

I may have missed parts in this thread about the whites but I have a question or 2 about them. I received some hatching eggs of F1 Sulmtaler X Cream Legbar and 1 of them hatched out very, very creamy white and I think it is male. I thought it might have come from the Wheaten Sulmtaler side of things but now is the 2nd time I have seen the whites from Cream Legbars. Even though it was from a mix, it looks just like the ones in this picture, without any crest...yet. He/She hatched March 25, 2015.

How often do you get whites from your hatches and are they mostly males? Are the males in your breeders a very light color as compared to the darker colors?

This year I am seeing between 10 and 20% whites. I have a mixed line flock, so the coloring of my males is all over the map. I had a couple whites hatch 2 years ago. I switched roosters last year and had no whites. I sold last years rooster and clearly the son that I am breeding from has the white recessive gene and probably more than one of the hens must too. The white gene is probably in the straight combed stock that I am opting for. I have only gotten male and both have large crests, but one of my egg customers got 2 pairs from 2 dozen eggs.

 

[sol2go]

Here are some pictures of my 5 week old chicks.


I posted pictures of this little one on Face book. At first I thought it was a cockerel because it's missing the clear chipmunk stripes, also missing a white spot so I wasn't sure.

Turned out to be this lovely little pullet in picture #3. She will be joining my neighbors layer flock since she was not easily autosexing at hatch.



This is my cockerel with the bigger crest and his comb starting to flop to the left.



This is my cockerel with the tiny crest but more upright comb.



And here they are in a clump


The 2 white ones are cockerels. If I get a white female this summer, I might try breeding some white sports for fun.

Maybe you could let us know if @KPenley 's massage tip for straightening out a comb helps?!
btw - I looked at them again, I really like the barring on the first rooster, do you prefer one to another? Now I need to go look at my babies, I hope I see some like that...

 

[sol2go]

I may have missed parts in this thread about the whites but I have a question or 2 about them. I received some hatching eggs of F1 Sulmtaler X Cream Legbar and 1 of them hatched out very, very creamy white and I think it is male. I thought it might have come from the Wheaten Sulmtaler side of things but now is the 2nd time I have seen the whites from Cream Legbars. Even though it was from a mix, it looks just like the ones in this picture, without any crest...yet. He/She hatched March 25, 2015.

How often do you get whites from your hatches and are they mostly males? Are the males in your breeders a very light color as compared to the darker colors?

If your mixed offspring hatched yellow/white and feathered in solid white, then both parents would have to carry the recessive white gene, unless someone can offer another explanation.

I have seen both males and females. When they are a result of a CLxCL pairing, they also have the auto-sexing characteristics, although very faint chipmunk markings.
The CL parent would look "normal" but carry a recessive gene for white feathering which would not be known until mated with another carrier.