Cream Legbars

[OneMountainAcres]

Dried calendula petals? Do tell me more. As to egg color  most of the CL eggs I have seen, both in pics and personally have been a blue with a green tinge. You wouldn't mistake them for an Amer. blue egg in the box. I think that nature intended a slightly different color just for variety. After all who wants just blue eggs when you can have white, green, brown etc.? 
 I want Chicken Farmer Barbie too. But only if she has accessory chickens . You know Hasbro would give her a plain white sorta leghorn chicken.

I wish I could tell my CL eggs from my Am eggs lol. They all blends together! But, then again, I guess it's good that I can't. When it's time to start hatching, everyone will be in seperate pens anyway

 

[Sylvester017]

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?

I can't even afford a CoolPix point and click and had to put it on my Xmas wish list a couple years ago!!! Good or bad those are the best pix I'll ever get to post!

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've been feeding my chickens sweet potatoes and cantaloupe daily for 2 years and the color of my Ameraucana's eggs -- though they are blue -- they are the palest blue I've ever seen from first egg layed to last. Maybe the carotenoid only applies to CLs for deeper blues? If carotenoids make a difference in depth of color it hasn't been proven by my 2-yr-old Amer girl

and she's only layed 3 eggs this year to boot! Beware of old wives' tales - Smiles.

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[jerryse]

Carotenoids will make the yolks a richer color . No effect on shell color that I know of .

 

[ChicKat]

Carotenoids will make the yolks a richer color . No effect on shell color that I know of .

You should read the articles.... ;O)

http://avelando.webs.uvigo.es/pdfs_archivos/moralesetal2011BESa.pdf


Sylvester017 - probably the difference after the carotenoids is faint enough that a $6,000.00 machine is required to detect it....no wonder you didn't see it.

 

[ChicKat]

I went to the playstore on my phone and downloaded free app called Color Capture and Identifier. Thanks..... I never knew these apps existed. I really like it!

I downloaded it too and also color splash. THAT'S a neat app that I'll be playing with a lot. Not a cream legbar, but cool effects

Fabulous -- Happy Thanksgiving -- perfect picture. I'm going out to get those apps and add to my silly little phone...because I don't have enough apps...ROFL

Yep that Turkey looks 3-D - thanks for posting!

 

[ChicKat]

Here's one for y'all to ponder.......

If your CL pullet/hen has extremely pronounced visible barring -- does her egg look more green? -- does the BPR side of her nature increase prominence of the visible barring and the contribution of the 'brown' pigment coating the egg shell??

ALSO -- the brown inkjet wears out -- and I think that the eggs get bluer as the clutch continues and as the pullet gets older. JMO.....

 

[ChicKat]

Bugger - can't find that for iPhone. (I'll look around for something similar, no luck so far.)

I have to admit - I ordered some dried calendula petals on Amazon - they were part of an interesting Chicken Chick recipe anyway, but I am also hopeful for more blue to my eggs. That being said, I am beginning to question my expectations. When I look at my girls' eggs day by day, they actually look to be a pretty pale blue to me, with a bit of a green tinge. They are not robins egg blue, granted, but I really do wonder if my expectations were at all reasonable. These eggs are fairly blue to my eyes in natural light. I have shown photos to (non chicken) friends, and they all identify them as blue. I think I'm being over critical of their color. Of course, getting an accurate photo color representation is so tough...

Egg color is HARD (says chicken farmer Barbie...)

(Side note - I would pay GOOD MONEY for a Chicken Farmer Barbie - I'd give one to my niece and keep one for myself...)

- Ant Farm

Maybe one of those other apps is available to you -- hmmmmm -- google color detection apps for apple. (;o) --- google for apple apps -- maybe it would work.

This image is from this article:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3554524/

Maybe it helps us all a bit with the expectation side of the equation?:


blue, green, brown in egg language.

 

[ChickChuck22]

Here's a different sort of photo I thought I'd share. I just blew out a dozen of my Paula's eggs (4 egg's worth for dinner are in the small bowl - GREAT yolks!). Her eggs are a pretty very light blue green. She has been a very impressive layer, laying almost every single day since she started laying a few weeks ago. Good girl... - Ant Farm

Beautiful! Hoping for some eggs like that soon!

 

[ChickChuck22]

I am thinking of getting a blue / greeny egg shell cockerel, as I want someone to keep my flock safe and with the possibility of hatching some chicks. I have araucana (British tailed ones) and cream legbars in my mind. I have a few good quality hens of both breeds and thought you guys might be able to shed some light on the kinder, friendlier breed when cockerels are in mind. I'm not sure how un biased it was of me to post it on the CL thread, but oh well!

 

[MeepBeep]

Is anyone selling? I will take full grown or whatever you have if your selling. I would like chicks more then anything. I'm in Wisconsin. Thanks
Ethan

I'll have CL chicks come summer (Northern Illinois just south of the Wisconsin border) if you are still looking next year contact me then...