Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Mine are drawn to it. If i start a power tool, I have company and chickens with sawdust on their backs.

Come to think of it, maybe they are Saw"dust-bathing" ☺

Maybe!

 

[WhoDatChick]

Yes it is a cross of a Plymouth (barred) Rock and a Leghorn. The chicks have different colorings at birth so you can tell boys from girls.

Where do the blue eggs come from? Don’t Cream Legbars lay blue eggs? Or am I way off

 

[RoyalChick]

Where do the blue eggs come from? Don’t Cream Legbars lay blue eggs? Or am I way off

I am hoping so. Won't be long now and I can tell you!

 

[BY Bob]

Where do the blue eggs come from? Don’t Cream Legbars lay blue eggs? Or am I way off

No you are correct to ask. The Cream Legbar has more in it. If you cross Brown Leghorn and Barred Plymouth Rock you get the Gold Legbar. You then cross the Gold Legbar with a White Leghorn and cream-coloured Araucana chicken you then get a Cream Legbar. The Araucana introduces the crest and the blue eggs into them.

 

[RoyalChick]

Where do the blue eggs come from? Don’t Cream Legbars lay blue eggs? Or am I way off

I had to look it up. Here is what I found:
Origin of the Cream Legbar
The Cream Legbar is a cross between Barred Plymouth Rocks and Brown Leghorns, with some Araucana and Gold Campine genes. The Araucana genes give the Cream Legbar its funny little crest and the sky-blue or pale green eggs; the Leghorn contributed its excellent egg production (160 to over 200 per year); the Barred Plymouth Rock genes contribute the ability to easily tell roosters from hens when the chicks hatch.

So it is basically a mutt made up of 4 different breeds including the only two breeds I had understood were breeds - Leghorn thanks to @BY Bob and Campine thanks to @Ribh
I wonder if they will be crazy like the Campines or super friendly like the Leghorns. So far I would say both!

 

[RoyalChick]

No you are correct to ask. The Cream Legbar has more in it. If you cross Brown Leghorn and Barred Plymouth Rock you get the Gold Legbar. You then cross the Gold Legbar with a White Leghorn and cream-coloured Araucana chicken you then get a Cream Legbar. The Araucana introduces the crest and the blue eggs into them.

Oh instead of looking it up I could have waited and had it explained to me by @BY Bob. Looks like what I found was right. I had no idea there was so much fancy mixing needed to produce my Young Ladies!

 

[BY Bob]

You Say its Your Birthday

Historically I have been terrible at celebrating my flock's special days. However, like one of my hens under the magnolia tree, I have turned over a new leaf. I am going to try harder to celebrate their special days.

Today was a special day. Here is the celebration video.

 

[BY Bob]

I had to look it up. Here is what I found:
Origin of the Cream Legbar
The Cream Legbar is a cross between Barred Plymouth Rocks and Brown Leghorns, with some Araucana and Gold Campine genes. The Araucana genes give the Cream Legbar its funny little crest and the sky-blue or pale green eggs; the Leghorn contributed its excellent egg production (160 to over 200 per year); the Barred Plymouth Rock genes contribute the ability to easily tell roosters from hens when the chicks hatch.

So it is basically a mutt made up of 4 different breeds including the only two breeds I had understood were breeds - Leghorn thanks to @BY Bob and Campine thanks to @Ribh
I wonder if they will be crazy like the Campines or super friendly like the Leghorns. So far I would say both!

I'm getting very interested in your little ones now. They may be my next breed as well.

 

[BY Bob]

Oh instead of looking it up I could have waited and had it explained to me by @BY Bob. Looks like what I found was right. I had no idea there was so much fancy mixing needed to produce my Young Ladies!

They are very fancy. Sorry it took me so long to reply.

 

[RoyalChick]

They are very fancy. Sorry it took me so long to reply.

They are certainly very fancy, and don't they know it!