Cream Legbars

[sol2go]

My Legbar Cockerel He's About 1.5 Months Old

Thanks for sharing, does his comb look straight from other angles too?
In general, my CL roosters have been easy to have around, with or without hens.

 

[ChickChuck22]

The girls' eggs continue to get a bit bigger over time. Question - at what age do they general settle into their "final" egg size? - Ant Farm

Those eggs are amazing!!! I can't wait for my girls to get laying now!

 

[ChickChuck22]

I decided to final settle down and focus on a few breeds. My problem is that I find multiple breeds of chickens attractive to own. I like eye candy as well as efficiency. My Isbars are new too. Round one was likely a complete failure. I have one egg left. Round two is hopefully more promising.

I wholly agree it was nice to get a head start from Tim and that was exactly what I was shopping for. I've only met one other online Michigander with CL's. She was culling line C's but also has Rees birds. I'll have to meet these people if I can.

Aaaasrrrrgggghhhh! Beautiful egg overload! Sooo jealous of you, your girls are laying! No such luck in my neck of the woods, and you have Isbars! I have scoured the UK for birds, but no success, gonna have to get some shipped over from Sweden or US! But no breeders I've contacted would be willing to ship me eggs. Oh well, at least I've got my Cream
Leggies to keep me happy

 

[ChickChuck22]

Thanks for sharing, does his comb look straight from other angles too?
In general, my CL roosters have been easy to have around, with or without hens.

That's reassuring! I'm thinking of getting a cream legbar roo and a few breeders I have talked to have sold their breeding flock due to nasty boys, this put me off for a while, but I am slowly building up strength to believe in CCLs again! I just luurrvve my girls in our flock.

 

[Ravynscroft]

That's reassuring! I'm thinking of getting a cream legbar roo and a few breeders I have talked to have sold their breeding flock due to nasty boys, this put me off for a while, but I am slowly building up strength to believe in CCLs again! I just luurrvve my girls in our flock.

Mine has never been aggressive... he isn't cuddly friendly, but never mean... I let him have his space and only pick him up when needed and he is alert and protective of his girls...

 

[ChickChuck22]

Mine has never been aggressive... he isn't cuddly friendly, but never mean... I let him have his space and only pick him up when needed and he is alert and protective of his girls...

Mine has never been aggressive... he isn't cuddly friendly, but never mean... I let him have his space and only pick him up when needed and he is alert and protective of his girls...

Great! I don't expect him to ever be very ffiendly, just your roos level of tameness!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Great! I don't expect him to ever be very ffiendly, just your roos level of tameness!

He's definitely a good roo... no complaints for sure... cockerels were typical teenage boys though... but once the hormone surge passed they settled down...

 

[ChickChuck22]

He's definitely a good roo... no complaints for sure... cockerels were typical teenage boys though... but once the hormone surge passed they settled down...

Yup, know what you mean about teenage roos!

 

[ChicKat]

Thanks ChicKat, very interesting reading. I'm quite proud I picked out this guy, all I can hope now is that he turns out friendly, unlike other cream legbar cockerels I have known in the past!

Hope so too--- I have eliminated two that were horrible mean - just on temperament, and two I have here are definitely not for beginners or children, and one of the CL males here is very docile - not however friendly. That being said -- there are no males that are more considerate of their hens than CLs from what my limited experience has been...and one EE male was so hard on females that the previous owner thought that he had murdered one of them, and he went after and terrorized an Ideal 236 that I had - and subsequently spent the remainder of his life in prison. (chicken prison).

-- Not appropo to this thread...but the Blue Isbar male I have is charming, will eat out of my hand, and has trained me to come to a 4' roost in the corner of his pen when I am working in the adjacent pen -- and feed him. Now that is one smart chicken! It would be nice if all my males here had that set of qualities.

Hope you get the cockerel and he turns out to have a good disposition. You will have to report back with news. :O)

 

[ChicKat]

The girls' eggs continue to get a bit bigger over time. Question - at what age do they general settle into their "final" egg size?




- Ant Farm

At the age when they reach full size.

okay I couldn't resist -- seriously now at a couple of months-- your full size eggs (partly depending on the size of your female -- big big female + bigger eggs; petite when full grown female smaller eggs)-- when they hover at about 2oz I think that is going to be near your max. I have an Isbar though who is 3 1/2 pounds and lays a large egg. If one were a farmer who cared about feed conversion etc. That would be approaching the idea -- she doesn't need much to keep her own weight up -- and what she eats is converted to laying power. FWIW