Cream Legbars

[Fire Ant Farm]

Hi

That chicken on the far right is a Gold Brabanter rooster. Isn't he wild looking? He doesn't have his full adult coloring yet as these chickens are 5 months old.

L to R are 4 hens: Tolbunt Polish frizzle, cream legbar, polish I was told was Tolbunt but wonder if gold laced or a mix, cream legbar... Then the lone rooster.

They are all very tame and friendly. They are fun to watch and have different personalities.

The Gold Brabanter rooster is friendly when we can catch him, ha! My DH named him Road Runner because that's how he looks when he runs and he seems to think of we catch him, he's through! He has long legs, think dinosaur, ha! But once on my lap, he stretches out for a nap, sometimes drapes his long neck on my arm.

The legbars are soft and sweet and wNt in our laps, they are so beautiful and when they start laying will give us blue eggs! Neat!

Then the two Polish. We haven't named the hens yet though have a few ideas. The dark headed one is more shy and funny how she bobs and shakes her head, she stands so tall to peer under her headdress! The frizzle follows the others and doesn't see as well ...she settles down on our laps and her frizzled feathers are so soft. The picture does not do her justice, she is beautiful and different.

It is fun to watch them all together and interacting.

Oops! OK, so PHILIP Diller.

You have lovely birds!

- Ant Farm

 

[ChicKat]

Love the beautiful cream legbar hens from your flock's eggs! They are becoming more pretty too.vths is the lighter one with larger crest. The darker one has smaller crest.

Of course I think she is beautiful -- and what a nice pen for them to live in. Thank you for posting -- and I see phillip Diller aka Road Runner there in the background. So 5 months -- another month or so (depending on when they decide to get in gear ) -- and you will be getting your CL eggs... (they may hold off until the days get longer just to give you some aggrivation -- and make you wait a bit longer for their eggs!)


Took a couple of shots of some of mine this morning really early - so I have that morning rosy light that makes everything look so good -- what is it an hour after sunrise and an hour before sunset in photography 'the magic hour' or something like that?

"Me(d)Cre" on the left and "Robin" on the right - "Robin" showing muchmore black pigment in her hackles that "MedCre". They are both looking particularly fit right now -- because they just finished molting and they haven't started yet to lay again.


I'm really proud of "Robin" -- because she is 4-years old in a month -- and has regained her yellow legs and beak since she took a hiatus from laying while in molt -- and she has great white earlobes too....clear breast plumage that I consider salmon (warmed a little by the very early morning light in this photo -- and cold out there too - frost/ice on water) and overall a nice chicken IMO.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Love the beautiful cream legbar hens from your flock's eggs! They are becoming more pretty too.vths is the lighter one with larger crest. The darker one has smaller crest.

Great shot - and great run! I love your set up from what I see!

Of course I think she is beautiful -- and what a nice pen for them to live in. Thank you for posting -- and I see phillip Diller aka Road Runner there in the background. So 5 months -- another month or so (depending on when they decide to get in gear ) -- and you will be getting your CL eggs... (they may hold off until the days get longer just to give you some aggrivation -- and make you wait a bit longer for their eggs!)


Took a couple of shots of some of mine this morning really early - so I have that morning rosy light that makes everything look so good -- what is it an hour after sunrise and an hour before sunset in photography 'the magic hour' or something like that?

"Me(d)Cre" on the left and "Robin" on the right - "Robin" showing muchmore black pigment in her hackles that "MedCre". They are both looking particularly fit right now -- because they just finished molting and they haven't started yet to lay again.


I'm really proud of "Robin" -- because she is 4-years old in a month -- and has regained her yellow legs and beak since she took a hiatus from laying while in molt -- and she has great white earlobes too....clear breast plumage that I consider salmon (warmed a little by the very early morning light in this photo -- and cold out there too - frost/ice on water) and overall a nice chicken IMO.

Oh, Robin is so lovely!!!! She's Momma to my Dumbledore, so I'm a little biased. Dumbledore (Robin x Ice, if I recall correctly) has been an AMAZING flock cockerel so far - very sweet, protective, and polite with the three girls. I couldn't be happier with him, not only his lovely looks but also his attitude and behavior. He's only... what, 6 or 7 months old? But he's the oldest boy out there, and I'm letting the CL mini-flock range in a large paddock all day unsupervised (as well as the 12-week-old Naked Necks and the 12-week-old freezer-bound frat boy New Hampshires). Large predators are excluded, but aerial ones are around, and I feel so much more secure at work knowing he's out there with them all, ready to sound the alarm, and if all three of his pullets aren't foraging together, he goes back and forth between them to make sure they're supervised - he takes his job very seriously.

He has a very musical crow, only in mornings at sun-up and the occasional afternoon when the mood strikes him, and he's been giving "singing lessons" from afar to my largest and only crowing Naked Neck, Mr. Smith (half his age, almost twice his weight, VERY intimidating boy! He wins staring contests with me!) - I wake up to this hysterical "call-and-response" between Dumbledore's lovely song and a strangled kazoo sound - but Mr. Smith is getting better (under Dumbledore's tutelage - "No, it's like THIS..."). We've talked about this before, and this is only an "n" of one, but I have been SO happy with him as the leader of this little flock - so glad he didn't end up in the freezer!!!

- Ant Farm

Edit to add for interest a photo of Mr. Smith, aka Bane, on patrol - I think Dumbledore is teaching how to protect a flock from across the fence line. He's heterozygous for the naked gene, which is why he has such a big muff in front. His rose comb (not standard, probably due to a cross) makes him look especially menacing, but despite being twice the weight of the pullets in with them, he's very restrained. Weighed him yesterday - like picking up a bowling ball...)

 

[sol2go]

Of course I think she is beautiful -- and what a nice pen for them to live in. Thank you for posting -- and I see phillip Diller aka Road Runner there in the background. So 5 months -- another month or so (depending on when they decide to get in gear ) -- and you will be getting your CL eggs... (they may hold off until the days get longer just to give you some aggrivation -- and make you wait a bit longer for their eggs!)


Took a couple of shots of some of mine this morning really early - so I have that morning rosy light that makes everything look so good -- what is it an hour after sunrise and an hour before sunset in photography 'the magic hour' or something like that?

"Me(d)Cre" on the left and "Robin" on the right - "Robin" showing muchmore black pigment in her hackles that "MedCre". They are both looking particularly fit right now -- because they just finished molting and they haven't started yet to lay again.

Sweet side by side photo and helpful comparison for body color.

 

[sol2go]

See my two pretty legbar hens? They are so sweet and soft, love them!

The Cream Legbar on the right may have crest envy...

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

The Cream Legbar on the right may have crest envy...

Oh, I TOTALLY agree!!!!

- Ant Farm

 

[Bawk]

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Love the beautiful cream legbar hens from your flock's eggs! They are becoming more pretty too.vths is the lighter one with larger crest. The darker one has smaller crest.

Great shot - and great run! I love your set up from what I see! [Q Thanks!

 

[iPickYupik]

Love the beautiful cream legbar hens from your flock's eggs! They are becoming more pretty too.vths is the lighter one with larger crest. The darker one has smaller crest.

Great pic! She looks like my sweet, curious Marzipan that I hatched from ChickKat's eggs. <3

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Great pic! She looks like my sweet, curious Marzipan that I hatched from ChickKat's eggs. <3

Hurrah for ChicKat's birds!

- Ant Farm

 

[ChicKat]

F.A.F. - He does look menacing! -- how much did he weigh. Love your stories about your chickens... you should write a children's book (or an adult book? or a blog --- about their adventures -- or -- keep posting here on BYC.....

Yes your memory is correct -- Ddore IS a Robin and Ice chick...and I am soo glad to hear good behavior reports and so glad that he was rescued by you.

Sweet side by side photo and helpful comparison for body color.

sol2
It does look sweet - -and there is no real love lost between those two -- and even the body color is a bit inaccurate due to the fact that Robin was under reflection of the beige coop - and it was early morning light. (which just shows how photos can be misleading) -- actually Me(d)Cre is 'golder' than Robin -- and Robin's back is grayer in real life -- (I know it doesn't look it) -- Me(d)Cre is here for her low tail-angle and smaller comb. -- Both are fairly gray on the back feathers right now. Were you to see them 'up close and personal' -- Robin is more gray. That being said, were the colors 'true' your point would be spot on.

The Cream Legbar on the right may have crest envy...

LOL -- Polish are one reason that I prefer the smaller CL crest -- I think it looks less wild and crazy among other things.

Great pic! She looks like my sweet, curious Marzipan that I hatched from ChickKat's eggs. <3

Yay for Marzipan -- love that name -- (kind of makes me hungry right now too) - I guess it is time to rustle up some breakfast.

Hurrah for ChicKat's birds!

- Ant Farm

Thanks so much!! For everyone who has my genetics somewhere in their flock -- please remember that if tragedy should hit me hard and I lose all my critters -- I would be coming back to you to try to purchase some hatching eggs. I also think that possibly due to the behavior of his hackles that 'Ice' could be split for silver so on his 'S-locus' -- he may be S/s+ - and I know to most everyone of y'all it doesn't matter... And it no longer is a big concern for me -- but just to have full disclosure.

BTW - every time I start talking genetic alphabet soup - I have a friend here who says. " I think genetics are boring as they can be -- and remember that the APA show doesn't care at all about the underlying gentics -- they just care about how that particular chicken looks in the cage when the judge is checking him out".
-- (and that shuts down my gene talk)--

Thanks for the updates of the great chickens. Remember that the most important thing we can do to improve the breed is breed for good type, good weight, good heads, nice straight combs on males etc. -- For some of us -- blue eggs and high productivity are a real prioroty too.