The Legbar Thread!

[blackbirds13]

For those who are comparing internet posted UK roosters to ours in the USA - Just a thought: aren't the UK roosters much older than ours? And don't roosters become more flamboyant with age? I think I also saw an impressive UK rooster --- but I think it was something like 5-years old.

I know that the chesnut is "permissable" in the UK SOP. ( Thanks those of you who looked up and posted) I guess just how much chestnut before it is an undesirable characteristic would be a good question for us in the USA. IMO we have a number of birds in the USA that could perhaps give the UK birds a 'run for their money' LOL (Especially when ours are 5-year olds) :O)

I also took two pictures of my cockerel today...and in one he looks really white, and in another he looks really colorful. Same rooster, same day, same camera.....different sunlight/shade situations. I'll see if I can comeback and post them in awhile. Part of what I am trying to say is Pictures and lighting can show quite a lot of variation.

ETA pictures:






sooo is it me? or does he look lighter in the top picture and darker in the bottom picture? Or since one is in shade and one is in sun, one is on dark background and one is on light---does the human eye compensate and it doesn't look different? Also, I think he is getting lighter as he gets "older".

Your boy looks nice. I was looking at my pictures of my rooster and he definitely got much lighter as he got older. He also got chunkier, especially when he became the Alpha.

I've read that they can be noisy but my husband says he thinks my Legbar boy is much quieter than the BCM rooster I had and much less than my 2 Ameraucana roos. My Ameruacana roos were my noisiest.

 

[ChicKat]

Thank you blackbirds13! I really do like him.


Although I only have the male and female cream legbars...but I tend to be in agreement with your husband that the legbars reputation for being noisy may be off the mark. I think that they also say that they don't go broody, but didn't Sheriff have a broody juvenile that was sitting on chicks before she even laid, and didn't Johnn have a Cream Legbar that hatched... then there is that famous/funny video of the screeching cream legbar broody...... I would think that some broodiness would be an advantage. (Like for when we run out of electricity in the Zombie Apocalypse.) lol

 

[normanack]

   I would think that some broodiness would be an advantage.  (Like for when we run out of electricity in the Zombie Apocalypse.) lol

Heck with stinkin' zombies. I'm much more worried about that brown dwarf star that's supposed to pass between the earth and the moon.
;-)

 

[ChicKat]

Heck with stinkin' zombies. I'm much more worried about that brown dwarf star that's supposed to pass between the earth and the moon.
;-)

LOL -- now THAT could really disrupt the grid. Good thing Legbars can go broody.

 

[ronott1]

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It already passed by us! Maybe that is why the red meat is calling to me this morning.....

Problem when looking at Legbar information is:

We do not have Production Cream Legbars!!!!!

Ours are Heritage. All Heritage breeds are more likely to go Broody.

Some of the Pictures and descriptions you will read are describing the Production birds. Those are sold at feed stores in England and Green Fire did not import those.....

Must - eat - ..............rare meat...........

Ron

 

[ChicKat]

Ron that is so funny! (I mean the red meat part)

I was reading something about heritage breeds the other day and the rules are strict...like absolutely NO INCUBATION to be considered heritage....so we've already broken the rules. I understand why they want to maintain broodiness....

Here are two other things..... I thought that the idea of cream legbars was that for autosexing after the WW I England when there wasn't a grain of wheat to spare...knowing at hatching time who would grow up to lay eggs and who wouldn't was very economical for those that had chickens. I also thought I had read that they were dual purpose...... (i.e. edible) unlike their leghorn ancestors but more like their barred rock ancestors. Anyone else come across this in any of your readings?

 

[boykin2010]

Thank you blackbirds13! I really do like him.


Although I only have the male and female cream legbars...but I tend to be in agreement with your husband that the legbars reputation for being noisy may be off the mark. I think that they also say that they don't go broody, but didn't Sheriff have a broody juvenile that was sitting on chicks before she even laid, and didn't Johnn have a Cream Legbar that hatched... then there is that famous/funny video of the screeching cream legbar broody...... I would think that some broodiness would be an advantage. (Like for when we run out of electricity in the Zombie Apocalypse.) lol

My Legbar hen went broody too.

 

[Johnn]

My Legbar hen went broody too.

why? , i love broodies and yep Melow has a chick, she wasn't that good on the eggs but shes a really good mam, her and the other hen with a chick were left out all day today and i was so worried about them, but they were fine in the end

 

[ChicKat]

My Legbar hen went broody too.

Whoops! Sorry to omit your hen. Did she hatch eggs, or did you incubate? or both. Just because of this discussion, when I opened the egg port, there was my Cream Legbar with her hackles up and fussing at me because I was intruding. wouldn't that just serve me right---and I don't have a clutch of eggs for her. But withe the temperatures here....I think it would be nearly suicidal to try to hatch eggs.....Probably would only need the hen's efforts at night.

 

[boykin2010]

Whoops! Sorry to omit your hen. Did she hatch eggs, or did you incubate? or both. Just because of this discussion, when I opened the egg port, there was my Cream Legbar with her hackles up and fussing at me because I was intruding. wouldn't that just serve me right---and I don't have a clutch of eggs for her. But withe the temperatures here....I think it would be nearly suicidal to try to hatch eggs.....Probably would only need the hen's efforts at night.

I didn't care that you left her out. I was just saying that so that people will realize the legbar hens do go broody. People selling cl eggs have been saying "this breed rarely goes broody" but it really isnt true. I personally did not like my legbar hen being broody because I wanted her to lay. I had other hens that can hatch and I have 2 incubators. I needed the eggs from her.
She only sat for 3 days before I broke her of it. 3 days on a wire cage and she stopped setting and started laying again