Cream Legbars

[Bantambird]

Haha yeah layer types don't put on the pounds real fast! I've cooked my fair share of skinny cockerel soup.

 

[duluthralphie]

Haha yeah layer types don't put on the pounds real fast! I've cooked my fair share of skinny cockerel soup.

I know,,,


I have already told my DW the WWD to expect skinny chickens for dinner this winter....

The proposed SOP is 6.5 to 7 pounds for a rooster as I recall is why I said that, for a CLB to reach 7 pounds in Minnesota his comb will have froze off three years ago.

 

[backyardchicks]

My Cream Legbar is 18 weeks old and from Jill Reese line. Her comb and wattle is nice and red now and I am waiting patiently for her to lay her first egg!!

 

[rottlady]

5.5 week old roo that I am looking to place

 

[Bantambird]

My Cream Legbar is 18 weeks old and from Jill Reese line. Her comb and wattle is nice and red now and I am waiting patiently for her to lay her first egg!!

She is pretty! I have had some make me wait until they are 22-24 weeks old. I hope yours doesn't hold out on you!

 

[PDPercherons]

I swear mine just plot every single night about how they don't intend to start laying. 3 hens are 26 weeks, 4 are 23 weeks. They swear don't feed them high protein, they'll lay early. Yep. Plotting I tell ya.

 

[Bawk]

We love our two legbar hens, they are so sweet and friendly. They seem to stay broody. The Gold Lace Polish missed her friends so climbed in the nest box with one of them even.

 

[ChicKat]

We love our two legbar hens, they are so sweet and friendly. They seem to stay broody. The Gold Lace Polish missed her friends so climbed in the nest box with one of them even.

Hey there! Just the other day I was thinking of you and wondering how you were doing! Stay broody -- you must put the magic sauce on their food. One of my CLs went broody -- and I was at a loss for eggs to put under her. Finally found some and she managed to break them all after about a week. Then she sat in the empty nest for a while and now I think she is cured.

Anyway -- good to know you are alive and well -- I like your chickens crests, white earlobes and beautiful salmon breasts - nice yellow legs too -- I guess if one is broody -- they aren't loosing pigment to egg yolks!

 

[Bawk]

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Hey there!  Just the other day I was thinking of you and wondering how you were doing!  Stay broody -- you must put the magic sauce on their food.  One of my CLs went broody -- and I was at a loss for eggs to put under her.  Finally found some and she managed to break them all after about a week.  Then she sat in the empty nest for a while and now I think she is cured. 

Anyway -- good to know you are alive and well -- I like your chickens crests, white earlobes and beautiful salmon breasts - nice yellow legs too -- I guess if one is broody -- they aren't loosing pigment to egg yolks!  

Hi @ChicKat, they are so sweet. They are super friendly and curious too. When my husband feeds them, they jump on his back or shoulder, they want to be petted and held. One of them was on his shoulder and when he turned to look at her, she pecked his eye! Thankfully it wasn't over the vision part of his eye. We were on our way out to go to a conference and had to cancel it! In all the years he had chickens before that had never happened! We renamed her IRIS and so I guess the other will be Rosie. Originally were going to name them Frenchie and Mocha. I stil like Frenchie so maybe the one will be Frenchie still. Then the Gold laced polish is Golda. Ha. The frizzle TP is Doddle Bug. The rooster is "Road Runner" because he runs so fast and doesn't care to be held, he looks like a road runner on the cartoon. He he was younger, if we caught him he'd stretch his neck out over my arm and go to sleep. I don't like him very much since he's been mean to the frizzle. I think. It's because two of his girls are broody he doesn't have enough hens now.

We have tried and tried to break the broodiness ..OH The pictures I posted were taken before they were even laying eggs, taken last Fall so not broody there. They gave us eggs just before Christmas. They think the golf balls are eggs. Golda misses them and goes sits with them. But poor miss Doodle Bug, she is getting too much attention from Road Runner but he has even pulled feathers from her wings! He's in a pen inside the run now. He's not very happy but neither is the frizzle.

 

[ChicKat]

Hi @ChicKat, they are so sweet. They are super friendly and curious too. When my husband feeds them, they jump on his back or shoulder, they want to be petted and held. One of them was on his shoulder and when he turned to look at her, she pecked his eye! Thankfully it wasn't over the vision part of his eye. We were on our way out to go to a conference and had to cancel it! In all the years he had chickens before that had never happened! We renamed her IRIS and so I guess the other will be Rosie. Originally were going to name them Frenchie and Mocha. I stil like Frenchie so maybe the one will be Frenchie still. Then the Gold laced polish is Golda. Ha. The frizzle TP is Doddle Bug. The rooster is "Road Runner" because he runs so fast and doesn't care to be held, he looks like a road runner on the cartoon. He he was younger, if we caught him he'd stretch his neck out over my arm and go to sleep. I don't like him very much since he's been mean to the frizzle. I think. It's because two of his girls are broody he doesn't have enough hens now.

We have tried and tried to break the broodiness ..OH The pictures I posted were taken before they were even laying eggs, taken last Fall so not broody there. They gave us eggs just before Christmas. They think the golf balls are eggs. Golda misses them and goes sits with them. But poor miss Doodle Bug, she is getting too much attention from Road Runner but he has even pulled feathers from her wings! He's in a pen inside the run now. He's not very happy but neither is the frizzle.

Was just saying the other day -- wish you could wind up the males for when they were needed and then store them on the shelf for when they aren't......

Wire bottomed cage -- no soft nesting materials -- in a breezy cold place?