Cream Legbars

[KPenley]

Is there a submittal date/deadline?

Yes, it runs from September 20 until October 20. So everyone with molts, you still have time for your birds to regrow some feathers! Yay the event page is up and running! Here it is!
https://www.facebook.com/events/890152881031993/

 

[chicken pickin]

Yes, it runs from September 20 until October 20. So everyone with molts, you still have time for your birds to regrow some feathers! Yay the event page is up and running! Here it is!
https://www.facebook.com/events/890152881031993/

Super fun! I hope all of you out there in the Cream Legbar world decide to enter.

I do not have facebook

So I wont be entering, but I cant wait to see all the other birds that enter.

 

[KPenley]

Super fun! I hope all of you out there in the Cream Legbar world decide to enter.

 I do not have facebook :/  So I wont be entering, but I cant wait to see all the other birds that enter.

I could post pictures for you if you'd like to enter

 

[cressrb]

Well how fun! Thx for posting.

 

[sol2go]

Well how fun! Thx for posting.

feel free to post your birds here as well =)

 

[KPenley]

Invites just went out for the Third Quarter Meeting Saturday at 4PM EST to all Cream Legbar Club Members! Dr. E will be presenting how to perform a necropsy! Hope to see you there!

 

[rossfam06]

Hey everyone!!! I am new to this thread. I recently aquired CLB chick's in April. They just turned 26 weeks yesterday. I got my first pullet egg today and well.....it's not blue! Can anyone give me advice as to what it maybe. TIA.
The egg compared to me EE egg.

Parents stock.

The pullet with the floppy comb laid the egg.

 

[KPenley]

Is there any color to the egg at all? Totally a guess, but I think your pullet is the result of a cross between a CL and a Brown Leghorn due to her beautiful gold and brown coloring. If so, then depending on what crosses were done previously she could either be capable of laying light blue eggs, or may be lacking blue egg genes all together. Give her a few more days to work out her system though. If she is paired with a rooster that hatched from a blue egg then her daughters should lay light blue eggs, but I would work from there on out to cull any white layers from the Legbar line. Best wishes!

 

[rossfam06]

Is there any color to the egg at all? Totally a guess, but I think your pullet is the result of a cross between a CL and a Brown Leghorn due to her beautiful gold and brown coloring. If so, then depending on what crosses were done previously she could either be capable of laying light blue eggs, or may be lacking blue egg genes all together. Give her a few more days to work out her system though. If she is paired with a rooster that hatched from a blue egg then her daughters should lay light blue eggs, but I would work from there on out to cull any white layers from the Legbar line. Best wishes!

Thank you. I was going to do exactly that. I guess I will be firing up the incubator sooner than expected to try and figure this out.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Well, I finally finished the coop yesterday, and I met ChicKat last night to take custody of little Dumbledore (he was sleepy - so was I, actually!). (So cool to meet in person, BTW! Even if it was in a motel parking lot...) He was installed in his quarantine coop in the dark without too much fuss.

This morning, he crowed right at sun up - he has the most delightful little musical crow (I hadn't realized how much I missed that since my neighbor's rooster was killed). Not to be outdone, Paula got high up on a roost in the coop, faced east, puffed out her chest, and bwak bwak bwaked as loud as I've ever heard her, as if to say "See, I'm louder than you" (which she actually was). I think she got a sort of smug satisfaction about that (never mind that she's almost 10 weeks older than he is...). She's a sassy queen, no doubt about it...

Pics below. Dumbledore is SO beautiful in the sunlight - I love Cream Legbar cockerels/roosters. I have a few more things to do on the new coop (building nest boxes, better feeder/waterer system, cover hardware clothes apron with soil) - but I'm so wiped out, I might need to take a break today. A trip to the feed store may be about as much as I can do.






- Ant Farm