Rose Comb Legbar Thread

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I figure I should start a new thread finally for this project. I started working on a rose combed version of the cream legbar because I live in Northeastern Washington where we get to -30 in winter and over 100 in the summer. The single combed birds never do very well in this climate but rose combed birds always do. A couple of the added benefits of my project are that I have increased production and also gotten more of a clean blue egg compared to my original legbars. I prefer the look of the light brown color of legbar (or gold as some call it) but I also have cream birds in the flock. This is the first year that I have them good enough to finally breed rose comb x rose comb.

I know there is one other breeder working on them for sure, not sure if anyone else is but thought I'd start a thread for them since there has been lots of interest lately.

 

[FridayYet]

Subscribing. I hope to get some in a year or so when we move to a place where I can have more chickens - and maybe do a bit of breeding!

I've been following your progress from the start. I love my legbars, but not the giant combs on my girls.

Keep up the good work!

 

[dretd]

Excellent! I will look forward to watching!

Once I get my Cream flock stable I would be very interested in getting rose comb hatching eggs/ Maybe next year?

 

[enola]

Extremely interesting! How long have you been working on this project? Do you still have the crests? Wow, so many questions! Pics please?

 

[jerryse]

Subscribing. I have my first legbar shipped eggs incubating. Frosted single combs are a problem here also.

 

[chicken pickin]

Subcribing!

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I have been working on it for a few years now. Actually, the idea came to mind close to 10 years ago when I first heard about legbars, I wanted some but none were in the US. I finally had a plan on how to make some from scratch and had the second generation on the ground ({ameraucana x rock} x leghorn) when GFF imported the real legbars so I scratched my original line and got the real legbars then bred from there. I got my first legbars the winter after they made their big debut. The rose combed legbars are just like the normal legbars in ever way as far as looks and such, the comb is the main difference. They have small crests, white earlobes, the same pattern, all that. Just like with the single combed birds, I noticed that the better looking crests cause the comb to be pushed forward. I think when it comes time to show some of the RC legbars, I'll have to write an add-in for the rose combed variety. I want to aim for the medium sized comb of the leghorns.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Here are some pics I had uploaded already. The first pic is a week or two old. The hen pictured was one of the first pure rose comb legbars, she is one of the hens I bred back to pure legbar roosters to get the current breeder birds. Since the project is still in the beginning phase, I sold the hens from last year so I would only have the improved stock to work with. I plan to keep only younger birds for breeders just to keep it moving forward.

 

[racinchickins]

I've been following your posts on the regular legbar thread. I'm definitely interested in rose comb birds as I had lots of frostbite with the terrible cold this winter. I will be eagerly awaiting the time you have eggs available. I would replace my current legbar flock with these.

 

[enola]

Do they lay blue eggs?