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My Legbars are anything but flighty. The hens are the sweetest hens in my coop, both towards me and their coop mates. Both roosters I had were NASTY mean. But, they tasted good in chicken salad sandwiches. But, don't get Cream Legbars thinking you will get blue eggs. Mine lay green eggs, well one lays a slightly bluish egg. They are great layers, 6 eggs a week, right through their first winter.
 
sc, they just won the last one with a Hail Mary too. :) BYU fan here.
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enola said:
My Legbars are anything but flighty. The hens are the sweetest hens in my coop, both towards me and their coop mates. Both roosters I had were NASTY mean. But, they tasted good in chicken salad sandwiches. But, don't get Cream Legbars thinking you will get blue eggs. Mine lay green eggs, well one lays a slightly bluish egg. They are great layers, 6 eggs a week, right through their first winter.
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I love love the leghorn. I have to have a leghorn or two in my flock. They are sweet. Can be noisy at egg laying time, before and after, but man, an egg a day. The whites. Tried a couple of the others.
 
I also have leghorns, white and brown. I read all of the time about crazy or mean leghorns. I have had them for years and never had a crazy or mean one. You cannot beat them for egg production and they eat a lot less feed per egg than any brown egg layer!
 
WalnutHill said:
I also wanted Legbars because of the egg color until I learned they were temperamentally more like the brown Leghorns I once had (spaz birds that would literally fly the coop when you opened the door, would go on the roof and not come down, etc). My "near Ameraucanas" were bad enough. Now I just want some easy to raise birds that can get along with birds of other colors and sizes and make nice egg baskets. They also have to be cold hardy, and a slight tendency to broodiness might not be a bad thing. But they have to be smart enough to get out of the way of a lawn tractor and even escape some of the lesser predators. There are few quality poultry breeders in the area, but a lot of breeders who buy/sell or breed low quality hatchery specimens of popular breeds. I won't try to compete with that. And there are a lot of sellers of cheap eggs, the Amish undersell everyone. So I will be out of the egg business.

If we move to the new place the birds will have room to roam. We will be looking at three properties tomorrow, all riverfront custom homes on 5-20 acres. Even with more land, I will have a smaller flock, I just want it to be self-sustaining and being able to grow my own broilers would be a plus. The coop will be a place to lay and roost and provide shelter in inclement weather. I'll have a brooder house and grow out pens for my turkeys.

And yeah, if someone figures out ship-a-thin, I'll take two, please.
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Walnut: those are a lot of my breeding requirements as well. I'm more than pleased with how this first generation is turning out. I started with 7 different breeds, most of them had pea or rose combs. The second generation is where I'll start some serious culling.
 

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