Cream Legbars

[generaldsherman]

Hmm,,, I see what your saying, but I am still leaning girl.  I would not put that one into a breeding rotation either, it would move to the EE layer chicks pen.

Always making life interesting --   Here is a differing viewpoint.
to me middle chick says 'male'  Here's why to my eye -- The stripes on the left chick -- very bright and almost have a dark edge to the ultra light stripe.  The little white she has on her head is well contained iwthin the dorsal stripe.   -- Middle chick to me looks like his white is more than the female type dab -- and pushes out of the dorsal stripe --  He also doesn't have continuation from the beak down the back -- but a break at the back of the neck.... To me his dorsal stripes are diffused. 

well, I'll have to keep it long enough to tell gender for certain then might try to sell. Have 2 girls I can keep & 3 definite boys to choose from so don't need it for breeding anyhow.

 

[duluthralphie]

Probably easy for me to recognize because I have that down pattern in males......:O)

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I have that pattern in females. I sold one earlier this spring (actually was a January Hatch) thinking it was a male. Dang nice looking pullet now.

 

[generaldsherman]

I have that pattern in females.  I sold one earlier this spring (actually was a January Hatch)  thinking it was a male. Dang nice looking pullet now.

keeping it at least until I know what the gender is. Will decide after to keep or no

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

@duluthralphie I am noticing the same on my girls, bigger crests on my darker girls, smaller crests on my lighter girls...

If I get too excited, it's alright to call me on anything. I am as easily eggcited as my birds when I bring the food bucket out. Thank you guys for being awesome and having awesome birds we can talk about.

That's what's so frustrating and yet so fun with working with a "new"-ish breed for which we still have a lot of things to work out. What a blast (but yes, how frustrating for those who want/need consistent results).

I keep not being able to get a good picture that captures it, but Joan Jett has a crest that I SWEAR is beginning to rival a Polish crest. Like, her crest feathers flop into her eyes!!! CRAZY!

BTW, I don't know if I have shared this observation here before, but for whatever it's worth: I'm in South Texas. It's hot. REALLY hot. I have been REALLY impressed with how well the Cream Legbars do in the extreme heat. (And I have Naked Necks that sometimes pant, so I have a good comparison). I'm not sure why - I'm sure part of it is the small body size as part of the "layer" body type.

But I thought I'd share that as a benefit - they are the birds I worry the LEAST about in the heat. (Can't report back yet on laying through the heat - mine started laying in November). If you happen to live in a very hot climate, and have had the experience of having to nurse your chickens through the summer with misters and ice, then you know how valuable a trait this is...

- Ant Farm

 

[rottlady]

That's what's so frustrating and yet so fun with working with a "new"-ish breed for which we still have a lot of things to work out. What a blast (but yes, how frustrating for those who want/need consistent results).

- Ant Farm

Legbars became a breed in 1932 is that still newish? At what point does a breed become a heritage breed? 100 years old? 50? Curious now

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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Mine are crowing at 3 weeks, so I am never confused about gender, good auto sexing at hatch or not.

(@ChicKat - ALLL the boys have been crowing insanely early - is this your fault through Dumbledore's line?!!!!

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I'm urgently working on housing options, as my 12 week old CL boys are mounting anything that sits still too long right now...

- Ant Farm

 

[duluthralphie]

Mine are crowing at 3 weeks, so I am never confused about gender, good auto sexing at hatch or not.

(@ChicKat - ALLL the boys have been crowing insanely early - is this your fault through Dumbledore's line?!!!!

)

I'm urgently working on housing options, as my 12 week old CL boys are mounting anything that sits still too long right now...

- Ant Farm

Wow, they are so different from each others flocks/birds. I just heard my first one crow today, He was hatched in January. It was that funny teenage sounds like a chicken choking on a frog that is fighting back noise.

 

[rottlady]

wow I have 1 legbar roo and 2 barnevelder roos they are 4 weeks old and just peep still thank Gosh.

 

[Aozora]

I asked a question about this chick a few weeks back, but never got a response. Here is the same chick, a month later. Is it a pullet, or is it a cockerel? The color is right in between my other pullets and cockerels, it has a hen tail, and it has a cockerel comb. Help please!

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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When I say " new" I mean that it entered the United States quite recently (I think 2010), and what we have over here is based on a smallish number of birds as well. As evidenced by our discussion, there is a lot about the coloring and other determinants that is still uncertain. We don't even have a SOP here yet - just a draft (unless I missed the memo). If you follow other breed discussions, things are more solidly worked out - because people have had more time to work with and breed their birds, and answer these exact questions that we re talking about here.

So, if it has only been in the US since 2010, then in United States standards terms, yep, new.

- Ant Farm

Edit to add: I do not mean to exclude or discount our fine friends in the UK. It's just that much of the discussion here has ended up centering on US birds and US SOP and US "Line A, Line B, Line C" etc."