Cream Legbars

[holm25]

You have met her. do you really think she would sew a cap for my chickens?


I bought her a sewing machine 3 years ago, I spent a grand on the stupid thing. She has yet to sew anything on it....

Now that I think of it... No... No she wouldnt.... And if she did I think we would all be worried about her well being!


My mom has a sewing machine... It gets used about once a year...


HEY! You have a great neighbor that makes saddles! Maybe she would try a stocking cap for a rooster!

 

[duluthralphie]

Now that I think of it... No... No she wouldnt.... And if she did I think we would all be worried about her well being!


My mom has a sewing machine... It gets used about once a year...


HEY! You have a great neighbor that makes saddles! Maybe she would try a stocking cap for a rooster!

LOL.. She did make a great saddle for Bertha!

 

[Sylvester017]

Yeah. Good luck with chicken hats... Did you have to pin it on?

They were a failure, the roosters kept ripping them off

Should have made some little chin straps!

Just how talented do you think I am?

You guys gave DH and me such a good laugh - only because it reminded us of how we tried to keep straight combs from turning purple in winter! Rather than dealing w/ straight or floppy combs all winter, what we did is keep just Silkies and Breda w/ walnut combs or no combs whatsoever. Pea-comb Ameraucana and EEs are good too except they don't do well in our long hot humid summer climate (too fluffy/dense). Silkies are fluffy, but on the other hand not real dense:

We got tired of dealing w/ straight and floppy combs in winter and re-homed the Marans and Leghorns




And kept the walnut comb/crested Silkies - don't laugh! These little girls give big eggs for bantams





Then we found a chicken breed that had NO comb whatsoever and only a triangle tassle top of its head - Breda



Blue Breda hen - no comb whatsoever but has big cavernous nostrils




Blue Breda cockerel - no comb but has triangle tassle top of the head



Our newest young Cuckoo Breda pullet - still growing out her wispy triangle tassle




Breda are funky-looking birds but quirky, funny, docile, people-oriented, medium fowl, and are good layers - don't go broody.



Love following your rare CLB thread!

 

[duluthralphie]

My white legbars girls have no comb or nearly no comb

 

[Bantambird]

Another bird with very little comb? Chantecler! I had a few of these, big hearty, hardy birds.

 

[OKVet]

You guys gave DH and me such a good laugh - only because it reminded us of how we tried to keep straight combs from turning purple in winter! Rather than dealing w/ straight or floppy combs all winter, what we did is keep just Silkies and Breda w/ walnut combs or no combs whatsoever. Pea-comb Ameraucana and EEs are good too except they don't do well in our long hot humid summer climate (too fluffy/dense). Silkies are fluffy, but on the other hand not real dense:

We got tired of dealing w/ straight and floppy combs in winter and re-homed the Marans and Leghorns




And kept the walnut comb/crested Silkies - don't laugh! These little girls give big eggs for bantams





Then we found a chicken breed that had NO comb whatsoever and only a triangle tassle top of its head - Breda



Blue Breda hen - no comb whatsoever but has big cavernous nostrils




Blue Breda cockerel - no comb but has triangle tassle top of the head



Our newest young Cuckoo Breda pullet - still growing out her wispy triangle tassle




Breda are funky-looking birds but quirky, funny, docile, people-oriented, medium fowl, and are good layers - don't go broody.



Love following your rare CLB thread!

I like my CLB's too much to get rid of them. I will deal with the frost bit crests.

 

[OKVet]

My white legbars girls have no comb or nearly no comb

I like the white legbar. Do they lay white eggs?

 

[duluthralphie]

I like the white legbar. Do they lay white eggs?

Nope, they lay the same eggs the regular ones do.

I plan to have all whites and get rid of the others in the next couple years. I really like the whites. They are so beautiful. In addition, knowing how Judges work at the shows, a white bird tends to beat out the colored birds most often.

When they are accepted into the APA I think my whites will beat the cream or crele colors. As one judge told me.

White is white it either is or isn't. There is no barring to grade, no colors to worry about being exactly right, which is why whites win most often.

 

[OKVet]

Nope, they lay the same eggs the regular ones do.

I plan to have all whites and get rid of the others in the next couple years. I really like the whites. They are so beautiful. In addition, knowing how Judges work at the shows, a white bird tends to beat out the colored birds most often.

When they are accepted into the APA I think my whites will beat the cream or crele colors. As one judge told me.

White is white it either is or isn't. There is no barring to grade, no colors to worry about being exactly right, which is why whites win most often.

Do you ever have any trouble with them carrying any color, or do they always come out all white?

 

[duluthralphie]

Do you ever have any trouble with them carrying any color, or do they always come out all white?

They are completely white and breed true.

They carry 2 recessive white genes. If they express the white they cannot express anything else. The problem is in my flock I cannot guarantee anyone a bird that does not have the recessive gene.

I suppose by doing controlled breeding to whites for several generations I could make a 100% non-recessive white flock, but I have them too intermixed at this time. When I found out I had the white gene it was too late...

However, If I could get what Meyers and MyPetchicken does for the whites, why would I want too..

I have more whites than both of them together have available for sale for the entire year. I so love my whites!