Cream Legbars

[rossfam06]

Is your goal variety cream or gold? The cream standard description is on the www.creamlegbarclub.com site, and the gold standard should be released soon (same shape, but more solid red in the shoulder and gold and gray barred coloring alongside the gray barring). Your Cock looks like an inbetweener (most likely lacking one copy of cream Ig/ig since his shoulder appears solid red and there is such a big difference between the upper hackles and the saddle). The good news is that you could easily breed offspring in either direction in just one generation! Pair him with cream hens for cream offspring (cull the 50% gold or in-between offspring) or pair him with gold hens for gold colored offspring (you will have to watch for recessive cream popping up down the road for a few generations). 

Just a warning in terms of temperament. Cocks produce 9/10 cockerels with similar temperaments to their own. Some breeders prefer feisty Cocks because they are great protectors while free ranging. Others prefer calm birds because there are often children nearby. Best wishes with your birds!

I would to go to cream standard but if he is only going to produce mean babies then he is going to be dinner!!!

 

[KPenley]

I would to go to cream standard but if he is only going to produce mean babies then he is going to be dinner!!!

I agree, but that's just me make sure he really is mean though and not just in a hormonal development stage.

 

[rossfam06]

I agree, but that's just me make sure he really is mean though and not just in a hormonal development stage.

He chased my oldest daughter across the yard and she was no where near him when they were free ranging. Then while I fought him down and was holding him he pecked me in the face and my youngest on her hand when she tried to pet him. He is a jerk face and my girls are heartbroken he turned out so mean. They don't want him anymore.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Well, they always say, mean roosters taste best... I wouldn't ever keep a bird that attacked me or a family member unprovoked. Something I do for my own enjoyment should not lead to blood loss and injury on my part, regardless of how seriously I take it.

We've had heavy hawk pressure for the past several days here - and Dumbledore really stepped up. There was a hawk swooping into their paddock (I could see from across the yard, but too far away to do anything about it). He raised the alarm and then distracted the hawk and lured it far away from the coop, clearing the way for the girls to run for cover (Lissa decided to shelter in place at the base of a tree). The hawk decided he couldn't get a good shot at him (or though he'd get too much fight), and then once the hawk was gone for the moment, Dumbledore herded Lissa back to safety in the coop. I'll tell, ya, for what it's worth, a cream legbar pullet (at least a more grey one, maybe not a whitish one) has EXCELLENT camouflage. I subsequently went a little nuts with surveyor tape over their paddock (until I can get aviary netting put up).

Here's Dumbledore today, sticking close to the girls, just WAITING for that hawk to come back so he can kick his back side.

What you can't see is what's over his head for protection:


- Ant Farm

 

[KPenley]

He chased my oldest daughter across the yard and she was no where near him when they were free ranging. Then while I fought him down and was holding him he pecked me in the face and my youngest on her hand when she tried to pet him. He is a jerk face and my girls are heartbroken he turned out so mean. They don't want him anymore.

Got it. He would totally be dinner at my house!

 

[sol2go]

Well, they always say, mean roosters taste best... I wouldn't ever keep a bird that attacked me or a family member unprovoked. Something I do for my own enjoyment should not lead to blood loss and injury on my part, regardless of how seriously I take it.

We've had heavy hawk pressure for the past several days here - and Dumbledore really stepped up. There was a hawk swooping into their paddock (I could see from across the yard, but too far away to do anything about it). He raised the alarm and then distracted the hawk and lured it far away from the coop, clearing the way for the girls to run for cover (Lissa decided to shelter in place at the base of a tree). The hawk decided he couldn't get a good shot at him (or though he'd get too much fight), and then once the hawk was gone for the moment, Dumbledore herded Lissa back to safety in the coop. I'll tell, ya, for what it's worth, a cream legbar pullet (at least a more grey one, maybe not a whitish one) has EXCELLENT camouflage. I subsequently went a little nuts with surveyor tape over their paddock (until I can get aviary netting put up).

Here's Dumbledore today, sticking close to the girls, just WAITING for that hawk to come back so he can kick his back side.

What you can't see is what's over his head for protection:


- Ant Farm

Great pictures, had to laugh at the tape gauntlet.

 

[ChicKat]

Well, they always say, mean roosters taste best... I wouldn't ever keep a bird that attacked me or a family member unprovoked. Something I do for my own enjoyment should not lead to blood loss and injury on my part, regardless of how seriously I take it.

We've had heavy hawk pressure for the past several days here - and Dumbledore really stepped up. There was a hawk swooping into their paddock (I could see from across the yard, but too far away to do anything about it). He raised the alarm and then distracted the hawk and lured it far away from the coop, clearing the way for the girls to run for cover (Lissa decided to shelter in place at the base of a tree). The hawk decided he couldn't get a good shot at him (or though he'd get too much fight), and then once the hawk was gone for the moment, Dumbledore herded Lissa back to safety in the coop. I'll tell, ya, for what it's worth, a cream legbar pullet (at least a more grey one, maybe not a whitish one) has EXCELLENT camouflage. I subsequently went a little nuts with surveyor tape over their paddock (until I can get aviary netting put up).

Here's Dumbledore today, sticking close to the girls, just WAITING for that hawk to come back so he can kick his back side.


- Ant Farm

Loved to hear about the successful outcome of that adventure! -- His white earlobes really 'pop' don't they? --

 

[Alex1010]

Ill Post Pics As He Continues To Grow.

 

[terrip824]

Well, they always say, mean roosters taste best... I wouldn't ever keep a bird that attacked me or a family member unprovoked. Something I do for my own enjoyment should not lead to blood loss and injury on my part, regardless of how seriously I take it.

We've had heavy hawk pressure for the past several days here - and Dumbledore really stepped up. There was a hawk swooping into their paddock (I could see from across the yard, but too far away to do anything about it). He raised the alarm and then distracted the hawk and lured it far away from the coop, clearing the way for the girls to run for cover (Lissa decided to shelter in place at the base of a tree). The hawk decided he couldn't get a good shot at him (or though he'd get too much fight), and then once the hawk was gone for the moment, Dumbledore herded Lissa back to safety in the coop. I'll tell, ya, for what it's worth, a cream legbar pullet (at least a more grey one, maybe not a whitish one) has EXCELLENT camouflage. I subsequently went a little nuts with surveyor tape over their paddock (until I can get aviary netting put up).

Here's Dumbledore today, sticking close to the girls, just WAITING for that hawk to come back so he can kick his back side.

What you can't see is what's over his head for protection:


- Ant Farm

Good for Dumbledore, glad he was able to warn the girls. Even though my gang spends most of their time in their pen the cockerels still send them in the coop if they even see a hawk. Then the smallest of the boys comes out to keep watch. I think he is lobbying for the "lead rooster" job.

 

[caychris]

I have a 27+ week old CLB cockerel that was raised with a group of Pita Pinta boys and they were recently brought him and 1 pita back to my back yard flock and they seem to get along great with each other and are easy to handle. They were hand raised and all the boys got some private attention daily.