First Egg Countdown

[3b blu]

Omg who ever said seabrights weren't good layers I got a good one! The other one prob from yesterday but I didn't expect another so quick! She was kinda screeching this am guess she's full speed ahead on process now! Lol

 

[Happy Chooks]

yeah! Finally! First egg out of all hens smallest seabright in there

in doing the egg dance so excited

Congrats!

On the Brahmas my expectations were not correct in terms of color, however, in terms of size I expected a bigger egg. Looks like I may have to try Welsummers if I need larger eggs. Whats the typical egg size and color for the Barnevelders?

I was also thinking of hatching eggs from my Red Star (I have a Cream Legbar Rooster which neighbors may have removed pretty soon) to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Possibly the chicks may be as good layers as the Red Star and may possibly have an Olive egg as well. However, who knows what the mutts will look like! Any ideas?

My brahma has always laid a medium sized egg. Barnevelders lay a nice sized egg, I don't know that it would be jumbo sized though. Their eggs are not that dark, so if you want a dark layer, I'm afraid you'd be disappointed. It is something that Barnevelder breeders are working on improving. Barnevelders will go broody too, so I'm not sure if that is a trait you want. Welsummers generally don't go broody. (though I've had a couple go broody but it's certainly not the norm with the breed)

As for your red star, how dark of an egg does she lay? If she lays a dark egg, then the female offspring with the Cream Legbar male would lay olive. If her egg is pale, then they would lay green. Cream Legbars hens have a very nice egg size. My Cream Legbar started off laying very large eggs from the start, she skipped pullet egg size. I like their temperament too. The Cream Legbar/Red Star cross should give you offspring that lay jumbo sized eggs. I have no idea what the offspring would look like. Here were my Cream Legbar's first eggs:

My two Cochin girls were born the last week in Feb and we had our first Egg yesterday afternoon. My Hubby calls it the $800 egg. Between cost of coop, organic feed, organic veggies etc. LOL. He actually may be close !

Congrats! The first one is $800 and all the rest are free.

 

[Junibutt]

Congrats!

My brahma has always laid a medium sized egg. Barnevelders lay a nice sized egg, I don't know that it would be jumbo sized though. Their eggs are not that dark, so if you want a dark layer, I'm afraid you'd be disappointed. It is something that Barnevelder breeders are working on improving. Barnevelders will go broody too, so I'm not sure if that is a trait you want. Welsummers generally don't go broody. (though I've had a couple go broody but it's certainly not the norm with the breed)

As for your red star, how dark of an egg does she lay? If she lays a dark egg, then the female offspring with the Cream Legbar male would lay olive. If her egg is pale, then they would lay green. Cream Legbars hens have a very nice egg size. My Cream Legbar started off laying very large eggs from the start, she skipped pullet egg size. I like their temperament too. The Cream Legbar/Red Star cross should give you offspring that lay jumbo sized eggs. I have no idea what the offspring would look like. Here were my Cream Legbar's first eggs:



Congrats! The first one is $800 and all the rest are free.

She lays a fairly dark colored egg, I would say like milk chocolate. so somewhere between green and olive shade might be expected as the result of a cross between CCL rooster and the Red Star. My Cream Legbars have not started yet. They are squatting already and even the skittish one is ok with being held, so expecting eggs any time now. Lets see what size they lay. They hatched from large size eggs but the size was towards the lower end of large so lets see.

 

[Happy Chooks]

She lays a fairly dark colored egg, I would say like milk chocolate.

That should be good enough to give you a decent olive egg.

 

[bekahubbell]

I'm dying waiting for the first egg! My RIR just started the squat, her comb/battles have bright red for weeks now so I'm expecting her to be my first layer.

 

[hundleychickens]

I'm guessing this is a new layer egg

 

[LadyCluck77]

I was also thinking of hatching eggs from my Red Star (I have a Cream Legbar Rooster which neighbors may have removed pretty soon) to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. Possibly the chicks may be as good layers as the Red Star and may possibly have an Olive egg as well. However, who knows what the mutts will look like! Any ideas?

I hatched eggs this year from my red sex links, bred to a brown leghorn rooster (cream Legbars have the salmon breast, like the brown leghorn. My guess is that yours will look similar). All the pullet chicks were born cream colored with a light brown face, and all the boy chicks were gold with very faint red chipmunk stripes. The pullets grew to look similarly to their chick down, they are a cream tan color with a salmon brown face, neck, and chest, and according to the folks who I sold them to, they're really good layers too. The Roos turned out actually very pretty, a friend of mine kept one and he is cream colored with lots of mahogany red lacing on each feather.

There is also a thread here called "I crossed a cream legbar with a ---- and this is what I got"

Just for fun sometime, use the Kippenjungle calculator to hypothetically look at various crosses and what they look like.

 

[bekahubbell]

So this thread must be good luck! 2 hours after posting "waiting on my first egg" it happened!! I went out to sit with them all and I just happened to look over at their coop and saw this little beauty just sitting there on the ground!! First egg ever!!

Laid by this lil beauty!

 

[3b blu]

So this thread must be good luck! 2 hours after posting "waiting on my first egg" it happened!! I went out to sit with them all and I just happened to look over at their coop and saw this little beauty just sitting there on the ground!! First egg ever!!

Laid by this lil beauty!

Yeah congrats!!!

 

[Junibutt]

I hatched eggs this year from my red sex links, bred to a brown leghorn rooster (cream Legbars have the salmon breast, like the brown leghorn. My guess is that yours will look similar). All the pullet chicks were born cream colored with a light brown face, and all the boy chicks were gold with very faint red chipmunk stripes. The pullets grew to look similarly to their chick down, they are a cream tan color with a salmon brown face, neck, and chest, and according to the folks who I sold them to, they're really good layers too. The Roos turned out actually very pretty, a friend of mine kept one and he is cream colored with lots of mahogany red lacing on each feather.

There is also a thread here called "I crossed a cream legbar with a ---- and this is what I got"

Just for fun sometime, use the Kippenjungle calculator to hypothetically look at various crosses and what they look like.

The Kippenjungle calculator (unless I could not find it), does not have an option for breed. For colors what would I pick for a Cream Legbar Rooster? Will I have to manually change the genes?