Cream Legbars

[Red Banks]

They look very different to Cream legbar chicks in Britain, ones we have's markings are much lighter with more distinct colour differences. But yours are sooo cute, I want some!

Mine looked a little different.

 

[terrip824]

They look very different to Cream legbar chicks in Britain, ones we have's markings are much lighter with more distinct colour differences. But yours are sooo cute, I want some!

Could you post some of your chick pics I would like to see the color differences. Mine resembled the ones Redbanks posted below.

 

[terrip824]

Mine looked a little different.

Mine looked like yours. Amazing how they can all look so different.

 

[ChickChuck22]

Could you post some of your chick pics I would like to see the color differences. Mine resembled the ones Redbanks posted below.

I usually would but all the pics of my chicks were destroyed when my computer died when I next have chicks I'll post, but I don't expect to hatch until the spring now, but mine usually look a bit like Redbanks's, however they are often even more clearly marked, with very definitive stripes on females, and still a clear, but paler, version on the boys.

 

[sol2go]

I usually would but all the pics of my chicks were destroyed when my computer died

when I next have chicks I'll post, but I don't expect to hatch until the spring now, but mine usually look a bit like Redbanks's, however they are often even more clearly marked, with very definitive stripes on females, and still a clear, but paler, version on the boys.

That would be great. It would be interesting to see what a more distinct pattern looks like on pale boys, and then how they feather in.

@rossfam06 I have hatched boys that look like your 2nd pic, but the first is unusual in my experience; maybe it's just the angle? Please post pics for comparison as they mature.

Here's 3 colors of chick down, 2 pullets, one cockerel (similar to @rossfam06 pic #2).

L - feathered in cream
Middle - feathered in gold
R - feathered in gold

Lightest examples of chick down, male and female, both feathered in cream with no red/chestnut.

 

[Red Banks]

That would be great. It would be interesting to see what a more distinct pattern looks like on pale boys, and then how they feather in.

@rossfam06 I have hatched boys that look like your 2nd pic, but the first is unusual in my experience; maybe it's just the angle? Please post pics for comparison as they mature.

Here's 3 colors of chick down, 2 pullets, one cockerel (similar to @rossfam06 pic #2).

L - feathered in cream
Middle - feathered in gold
R - feathered in gold

Lightest examples of chick down, male and female, both feathered in cream with no red/chestnut.

This follows for me too! I am looking for the pictures I took when I first got them. I had three shades in the chicks, light, medium and dark. My chicks with the color above (picture with the two chicks) turned out so far to be the most grey/cream. They are only about five weeks old right now. My chicks that were that color were finer looking all around, The others looked like fat little quail. At first I had them separated by shade. I was going to watch to see how the progressed. Good intentions! Then I read chick color had no bearing on adult feathering. I didn't band them and didn't follow them but I can still pick out those light chicks, they seem to be the most correct.

 

[terrip824]

I just looked at my early pics.My 2 that are showing the proper grey/cream were also light chicks. Two of my gold were dark chicks, with the remaining gold chick having a medium color. Chick down may not represent final color but I think it may be helpful in making breeding decisions.

 

[sol2go]

I just looked at my early pics.My 2 that are showing the proper grey/cream were also light chicks. Two of my gold were dark chicks, with the remaining gold chick having a medium color. Chick down may not represent final color but I think it may be helpful in making breeding decisions.

Working with your own line will help to identify typical traits and clues in your breeding stock.

 

[Red Banks]

I just looked at my early pics.My 2 that are showing the proper grey/cream were also light chicks. Two of my gold were dark chicks, with the remaining gold chick having a medium color. Chick down may not represent final color but I think it may be helpful in making breeding decisions.

The bottom chick was one of the light ones.

 

[terrip824]

They are looking very nice. Is that a pink gate in the background? Love it. Is the top chick gold?