Surviving Minnesota!

[Cebarmlds]

I will take him if nobody else will.....I just lost my toad rooster (again!) to a heartattack. And of all the toad eggs I set, not a single one was fertile.

Yippie ! he's yours!!

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Who wants this Toad?

LOL
is that ralphies loud chick??

 

[DwayneNLiz]

I will take him if nobody else will.....I just lost my toad rooster (again!) to a heartattack. And of all the toad eggs I set, not a single one was fertile.

that stinks
hope you get some fertile eggs soon!!

 

[Cebarmlds]

This one is actually pretty quiet, sweet little noises.

 

[MNChickMom]

erlibrd is once more true to form. It may be difficult to best her with first post of the day it seems ?
MnchickMom, I know nothing about a standard for Legbars but that guy looks quite striking. They are colorful aren't they.
Ralphie or anyone what can be said about egg color with the Legbars ? Is it quite fixed in pigment and intensity or is there a lot of variation ?

I don't know a "hill of beans" about Cream legbars. He was given to us on the basis that we thought he was a Dominique as a day old. Then we noted the different color leg band....and a few weeks later he started with a "Mohawk style hairdo behind his comb" hence he was named "Accident". Technically, he is a crested cream legbar and I am showing him in Hutch in hopes to help get the breeed recognized by the APA. He was a very docile male during his teenage years; this may have been because I put him with the old hens during those months....he may be a bit "Hen Pecked"

I don't have anything to compare him to nor do I know what the standards are going to look like so in my book he is handsome!

 

[holm25]

MNchickmom I had two of 48 toad eggs start and only one is still going but it's going strong. I have a broody Buckeye who will gladly take this egg.

 

[jerryse]

Going to go buy feed .

 

[duluthralphie]

My Loud noisy Toad has went to the neighbor girl. There is great advantages in having a 14 year old girl that is chicken crazy. It is a great dumping grounds!

The blue in the legbar eggs does vary. Some are almost a green egg others a nice sky blue. I have been breeding for the blue eggs. I only set the bluest eggs. Like all chicken breeds there is a of misconceptions. I have had people say only this line or that line will give you the bluest eggs. I think with selective breeding you can change the color. I am just as sure if I had picked the greener eggs I could change the egg color to green.

I am not the genetics expert Jerry is. I am just a farm kid that grew up watching my Dad and Grandpa change the body type on Hogs and Cattle to whatever the market was calling for by selective breeding.

I was also told I could not make a true cream colored chicken with the lines we have, they would always be Creole. (that's the gold color).

Does this look gold at all:

The SOP for Legbars is located on Creamlegbarclub.com

I am having a harder time removing the gold from the hens. It will take a couple more generations I think. I have been so successful on the roosters, I am going to start a second line to put the gold back in that line.

I really did not like my first legbars as the y were so flighty. The ones I have now are little sweethearts.

The one MnChickmom has was not suppose to be a Legbar....He is one of them that taught me to empty the hatcher from the bottom up and not top down. They will jump into the tray below if you go top down.....And I bet most of you cannot tell a CLB cockerel from a Dom cockerel. They look so much alike until the crest starts.. (Yep, I made an error)


I have screwed up my doms some......(gulp) Part of it is having had so many of my best birds disappear mysteriously this summer. I had been breeding for body type, which I think I have down pretty good, but I have lost the good rose combs. I have too many combs that look like cushion combs as far as the surface goes. The pointy parts are missing on the hens and they look like mountains on the boys,,Arrrrgh

I am actually thinking of changing one of the pullets set to go to Hutch. The one has a perfect body but the point (the back of comb not top) is almost split on the end. I am trying to figure out if that is a DQ or just a deduction. I have one that does not have as nice a body but a better point...Plus the replacement would have a better personality. She is one that runs to which ever side of the cage I am at and wants to be held.......However, if you do not pick her up and cuddle her, she will peck any part of your body that is close enough for her to reach to get your attention...

 

[BantyChooks]

However, if you do not pick her up and cuddle her, she will peck any part of your body that is close enough for her to reach to get your attention...

I have a lot of those... mostly the Leghorns.

 

[duluthralphie]

Toads are not very fertile this time of year. I have another rooster for you Mnchickmom.

I have one in prison for picking on the other roosters. If he dies, I still have more so you can keep on killing them.



As much as I did not want to do this, I am thinking of hiring "Holm's AI company" to improve the fertility until we get more Toads out there. I would like to have 50 toads to eat next year.