Cream Legbars

[sol2go]

sol2go, thanks for the reply! I was afraid of that, just hoping. He's otherwise a pretty nice looking gent, tho colorful, squirrel-tailed and not long-backed...

I gather the person I got the hatching eggs from got eggs from 4 different sources, and has been line breeding about 3 generations since then, so I guess things are popping out here and there, heterozygous-wise.

sounds about right =)

 

[ChicKat]

Thank you. Great pictures and great idea to use the leaf of lettuce. I will do the same and send more pictures. I am thinking your CLB's are bluer than my eggs.
But, I will have another look.

The color of the eggshell is nearly unphotographable for 100% accuracy - each step in the process makes tiny changes to the color appearance. Lighting, portion of the shell that is measured/evaluated, camera, computer monitor -etc. People also percieve colors in a different way. One reason I want my CLs as blue ias possible is because my Isbars provide me with green. And I do like that I can usually tell who produced which egg - by the egg shape, size, color - depending on how I mix-and-match them in various pens.


We had gotten a chart 'OAC' for Online Aucton Color - chart, which is sadly no-longer available. -- Cream Legbar owners had also used the Ameraucana and Aracuana color charts. It's nearly impossible to talk about egg colors from two distant places.

There are a couple of articles in the Cream Legbar Club's clubhouse that talk about eggshell-color. One of them refers to a " a CM-2600d portable spectrophotometer (Minolta Co. Ltd., Osaka, Japan).". we all need one, isn't the cost around $6,000?

But you know how now-a-days we can say 'there's an ap for that'. There is one on my phone (andriod- I'm sure apple has the same or similar)--- and it uses the phones camera ... it is called color Detector by Mobialia. You point your camera phone at the shell and touch the screen and it reads the lightwaves it is picking up. Each time you repeat - and in different lights you will get a different reading -- but a couple of tries will give you a pattern. Of course the light-waves that get picked up are influenced by everything - including what is near by.

I look for a nice saturation in eggshells- and the eggs do get lighter in a clutch, and as the above referenced article shows diet can play a role in the biliiverdin effect on the egg's shell. Particularly carotinoids. (Hmmm next egg show I put an egg in -- I will feed them mashed sweet potatoes the week before.)

I have fun with that App. Often it registers a green color -- and everything in my house is green color biased (faded blue jeans came out as a green or a gray on some measurements.) It take several trys and yes, there are variations (a lot) -- but patterns emerge. It gives the hex color and it gives the Percent it detects of RedGreenBlue (RGB). When my eggs are showing a higher percent of blue -- I'm happy camper. It is as ephemeral as an egg shell. (more so actually) -- You can also type in the hex number (into a website on your computer different from phone App). Putting in the hex number given to examine the color more closely. (I guess you may have to be really into colors to care that much - LOL)


Here is an example of a hex color I got from one of my eggs -- it is called Bali Hai in English or in Hex 7f9ba3

http://www.color-hex.com/color/7f9ba3

So if you go to that page..you see a medium color of 'Bali Hai' -- to truly match my egg you need to go to the tints - and in the the lightest two are closer to the egg shell. Because there are shades (darker than the medium color) and tints (lighter versions), I believe that the program is going to send back the medium color. Why didn't it just give me the hex for the tint? such as e5ebec? dunno - partly because it changes...LOL There is less blue in that tint...and it analyzed RGB

It's my thought that the blue edges out the green (by 2%) - and yes we have greenish-blue - but it is still blue.


TMI?

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[chicken pickin]

Pullets are now 22weeks, I got a squat from one of them this morn

I just moved them to their new coop 2 nights ago that has nest boxes, looks like I made the move just in time.

 

[ChicKat]

Pullets are now 22weeks, I got a squat from one of them this morn

I just moved them to their new coop 2 nights ago that has nest boxes, looks like I made the move just in time.

Yay!!

Just in time for them to settle in and get used to their new digs.

 

[napdognewfie]

Now the anticipation until the eggs start.

 

[chicken pickin]

Yay!!

Just in time for them to settle in and get used to their new digs.

Now the anticipation until the eggs start.

Im excited to see the egg color on these girls. And I can definitely use more eggs!

Only problem is I am running out of coop space darn chicken math. The subtraction button on my chicken calculator malfunctions on most occasions.

 

[ChicKat]

Just heard her hollering - and she was on the nestbox when I went out there to clean coops earlier than that this morning -- and I just have to brag on me old chook 'Robin' -- So she is 3.5 years old -- and coming out of molt. Her egg just now was 2.093oz USDA Large. (based on 24oz doz)---

#d2dadd​

for hex color #6a858e was the color I got back from the App - and it was considered again in the 'blue' category....but I just now forgot the name -- something like 'horizon' or some such. (brain fade- and the phone turned off to save it's battery so - oops)

I'm planning to breed her to her son/grandson - and resulting chicks would be 7/8 Robin. anyone working on line-breeding has gotten to the 7/8 generation? -- Are the hatch rates diminished? I would expect that as the hen ages, her fertility goes down too. Anyone gotten chicks from an 'old' hen? For fall breeding season - I would like to breed her to her son/grandson -- but next spring if opportunity is there, I would like to put a different male with her.

Line breeders? Old-age hen breeders? anyone? ;O)

ETA - oh and I have to add -- someone got four of Robin and Ice pullets from me this spring, and they are broody for the second time this year -- it seems that they tag-team the egg setting business. Another person who got a couple of pullets from me - with First-day-of-Spring as the target hatch date -- came into lay a bit ago at around 22-weeks -- and she has laid 11 consecutive eggs. And that's partially why I want to try to replicate her...and get 7/8 her genetics going forward.

 

[ChicKat]

Im excited to see the egg color on these girls. And I can definitely use more eggs!

Only problem is I am running out of coop space darn chicken math. The subtraction button on my chicken calculator malfunctions on most occasions.

we all get that!!

And aren't we also 'enablers' to all our friends and chicken acquaintances?

 

[napdognewfie]

You mean we want everyone else to get more so we don't look so crazy with all we have. Non chicken people just don't get it. Lol

 

[ChicKat]

You mean we want everyone else to get more so we don't look so crazy with all we have. Non chicken people just don't get it. Lol

What a GOOD idea! why didn't I think of that? YOU get the award for being the enabler of the day -- unless of course someone even more enabling comes along and posts. ;O)