Cream Legbars

[rottlady]

at what age are Cream legbars full size with adult plumage?
My almost 13 week olds are molting like crazy

 

[Bantambird]

The boys mature slower than the girls. Takes em a while, 6 months to a year before fully mature plumage and facial features.

 

[Sylvester017]

at what age are Cream legbars full size with adult plumage?
My almost 13 week olds are molting like crazy

They may be going through their juvenile molt.

 

[rottlady]

oh they are I have feathers everywhere. With the Button quail and Zebra Finches I used to raise once they are old enough to breed they have their adult plumage. Chickens making several changes before adult feathers is an amazing concept to me (I only had adult chickens prior) One Delaware breeder told me her birds molt 5-7 times between hatch and adult plumage...... wow

 

[tobit]

I had to tell someone, so our flock consists of 4 hens and 1 rooster (the rooster and 1 hen are cream legbars) and this morning I could only see 1 hen in the run so I thought I'd check the nest box to see if anyone was laying. Our nest box is a communal one which is roughly 3x2 feet, it's also pretty dark in there. I opened the door to it and saw the cream legbar hen squatting in there, I then heard a clucking and saw our cuckoo maran hen was looming over her, I thought that explains it, I'm sure the others are in the main part of the coop... I then spotted our cream legbar rooster behind the first 2 hens, and then to top it off our little EE hunkered down poking her head around the cream legbar

I wonder what they were all doing in there! Maybe the rooster called them in to look at the top notch nest he had "found" for them to lay their precious eggs in?

 

[GaryDean26]

My wife moved the last grow out group to the field earlier this week and took a few photos yesterday. I though I would share some of this year's flock.

Note: We never seem to be able to get ahead. We had around 30 cockerels and 30 pullets in the grow out groups but lost about 15 birds to extreme heat and about 15 to predators including the cockerel that my 6 year old wanted to exhibit at the end of the year and two of the pullets that I had on my watch list.

We can't wait until the pullets redden up and start to lay.

 

[badflash]

One of my Legbar Pullets got in with the Bielefelders. The roosters immediately had their way with her. If I hatched some of her eggs, would they be auto-sexing olive eggers, or just mutts?

 

[ChickenGrass]

They would not be olive eggers
They would be mutts
Goodluck

 

[MarshallPrime]

Hello, so I am looking for a difinitive answer on what the correct color is for a male Crested Cream Legbar. I have looked them up on this page and all over the internet even on Cream legbar sites/clubs pages and I see MANY different looking colorations for the roosters.

Most have quite a bit of light brown on their hackel freathers, wings and saddle feathers. Others are very black and white without much color. I dont know what is right.

The standards page say it MAY have some light brown but doesnt say what is preeferred.

Here is my only CCLB Rooster that is about 2 years old is mainly black and white...just a little brown sprinkled in. He is the only rooster I have and father to all the other males you see below.

His sons from January have much more brown and looking really nice, to me they look much more attractive than just a black and white barred rooster but I dont know what is preferred. I know tail angle is key, decent crest, full white ear loabes and the straightest comb possible (tough on legbars) is preferred but I just dont know about color.

Here are his sons.







Here you can see the difference from Dad to Son.



I can try to get some better pictures but this gives you a pretty good idea of their color.

So, the only real question: Who do I want for my main breeder rooster? 2 year old rooster with almost NO brown, all black and white or one of his 3 sons with MUCH more brown?

What color is preferred in a Crested Cream Legbar Roo?

thanks

 

[ChickenGrass]

Hi
I am not sure what colour he is but he dosent look like cream legbar.
His sons are the proper coloured cream legbar.
maybe his sons have more brown because the hens genes helped with that
Goodluck