Cream Legbars

[Bantambird]

It does help doesn't it?  Trouble with bands when they are little is how often they need to be changed.  Sometimes I put them on loose so they can "grow into them" -- Putting bands on new chicks -- for me just about impossible....

I hate banding new chicks. I feel like their little legs are gonna snap like tiny twigs...

 

[sol2go]

I would add that I love my CLs, but be warned they can be real LOUD - mine aren't shrinking violets, as I guess is typical, and will let me know long and noisely if they want me to do something, like trot out the treats a couple hours early.

Actually I have a mix of quiet and chatty CL hens.

 

[sol2go]

this is my 5 week old cockerel, looks not good for his comb does it?
Tail is down because he is very unsure about where I set him. Usually it is up

definite "S" curve, and pretty large comb for his age...

 

[sol2go]

Here are the basket o' cockerels 2 weeks later!

The one, top left (at about the 10 o'clock position) is the one with the darkest down? (bottom right from your basket pic?)
I am really curious to see how his face / crest look as he matures.

Chicks in grass says springtime for sure.

 

[duluthralphie]

I hate banding new chicks. I feel like their little legs are gonna snap like tiny twigs...

I have started using fingernail polish on the heads, a guy here on BYC told me that is what he does, it lasts about 30 days. Banding a 3-4 week old chick is way better than a day old.

I have 5 colors I use now.

 

[ChicKat]

I have started using fingernail polish on the heads, a guy here on BYC told me that is what he does, it lasts about 30 days. Banding a 3-4 week old chick is way better than a day old.

I have 5 colors I use now.

Pictures please

and of course the question -- what are the colors......?

 

[duluthralphie]

Pictures please

and of course the question -- what are the colors......?

Pictures would require me to put down my coffee and walk over to the birds.. Far more energy than I can expend this time of day before my next pot of coffee. BUT I promise to get some soon.

 

[rottlady]

2 of the 4 Legbar eggs hatched. both boys. 1 was a quitter and 1 I am giving a couple more days

Here is my 6 week old pullet.



I have 2 other pullets 5 weeks old and 5.5 weeks old and the 5.5 has barely a crest

 

[ChicKat]

I hate banding new chicks. I feel like their little legs are gonna snap like tiny twigs...

For straight from the brooder -- I have some of those tiny rubber bands (like for braces) except in colors of the rainbow.... they can be bought at WalMart...... I feel like it is trying to put a rubber band on a toothpick...and I do worry about their little legs and toes.......

Actually I have a mix of quiet and chatty CL hens.

My hens are quiet too -- the males do that rooster serenade in the morning - and a few random crows in the day -- The hens do a loud egg song now and then.... but if there were to be a big kerfuffle -- it would be something serious like a snake from my experience with my flock.

 

[Bantambird]

Hmm yes. Nail polish sounds good.