Cream Legbars

[chicken pickin]

The Standard weight for a pullet is 4.5 lbs and for a fully mature hen its 5.5 lbs. But I don't think 3.8 lbs is necessarily under weight I think because CL are a light weight breed they are sometimes can still fall a little short and be on the smaller side. CL breeders are trying to up the weights to the standard but not all CL will hit that mark.

Im sure someone else will add to this and I hope they, maybe @ChicKat .

I don't weigh my chickens on a scale, I just go by the feeling of the weight in my hands and gauge it that way. I have a few hens that feel too light to me and others I prefer that have a heavier dense feeling to them. One day I will get a scale but for now my hands do the trick lol.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Cream Legbars hatched July 1 are growing fast. The boys are looking gray. I was holding the pullets. They are all do calm and sweet.

@Chickat

So precious! Mine are only 12 weeks old, but I'm already missing their baby-hood. I was at the feed store today, and I helped catch an escaped little production red chick and held her until the employee could come over to re-open the brooder. Soooooooo cute!!!! (My girls have started acting like cats, standoffish unless I have food, so I miss the cuddles.)

- Ant Farm

 

[ChicKat]

I have a question I'm hoping someone here can answer. What should a Cream Legbar hen weigh? I have a 39 week old crested Cream Legbar (who isn't laying yet, but that's a different story). I've had some problems in the short time I've had chickens, including one pullet who nearly died of coccidiosis (not the CL). As a result, I decided to weigh all the girls so I have a baseline weight for monitoring if I suspect something is going wrong. I weighed the CL for the first time this morning and she weighed 3 lbs 8 oz. I have read varying wights online from 4 lbs to 6.5 lbs, Can anyone tell me what their hens weigh? I feel like 3.5 lbs is under weight, but I'm having trouble finding a reference. Thanks!

Yes, I agree with both you and chicken pickin'. :O) -- at 3.8 your pullet is coming in a bit below the weights that most of the Cream Legbars at 24-weeks that are posted in the CL Club's "chick weight tracking spreadsheet". And there is a real drop off in entering weights once they are 1/2 year 26 weeks old and laying...... So there isn't a lot of data. The 24-week olds were coming in at about 4#. There is one female in there at 3.75 at 24 weeks.

As Chicken pickin' said too, they will have different weights, like people some more petite than others. If she is healthy in other ways- she could be just maturing a bit more slowly and will fill out later. Especially since she isn't laying yet...she probably isn't done growing.

 

[Deckgirls]

my girl laid her very first egg today!!!! although in real life it almost looks like a spearmint green color is green normal for a CL?

 

[chicken pickin]

my girl laid her very first egg today!!!! although in real life it almost looks like a spearmint green color is green normal for a CL?

Congrats on your CLs first egg!!! While green is not an ideal color for CL, it is an accepted color. Blue is the ideal egg color for Cream Legbar and what many breeders strive for.

 

[johnandashley]

Wow beautiful birds I am receiving two cream legbar chicks in the next week so excited

 

[losttexan]

my girl laid her very first egg today!!!! although in real life it almost looks like a spearmint green color is green normal for a CL?

How old is she? I have a 23-week old pullet that still hasn't laid, and I'm starting to get a bit nervous.

 

[chicken pickin]

How old is she? I have a 23-week old pullet that still hasn't laid, and I'm starting to get a bit nervous.

I wouldn't get nervous yet, 23 weeks is still a little on the early side for a CL. Im sure she will be laying in a few weeks time. Keep us posted!

 

[Deckgirls]

she is exactly 24 weeks 1 day

 

[chicken pickin]

Wow beautiful birds

I am receiving two cream legbar chicks in the next week

so excited

Congrats and Welcome to Cream Legbars!