The Legbar Thread!

[ChicKat]

Oh, thanks..... I do understand, especially with this breed that the eggs are currently more valuable than the quality of broodiness. Still--- someone to off load the care and feeding of babies on. :O)

 

[Wolf-Kim]

I remember reading about how they go broody rarely, but am so excited to read about how often they really go broody. It's a great quality to me. A bird really isn't self-perpetuating until it can and does go broody. I like my birds for homesteading friendly qualities and broodiness, in a decent balance is a sure positive. Now you can get overboard with broodiness, like with silkies, who lay a single egg and then go broody. LOL I like my hens to go broody about once or twice a year.

 

[The Sheriff]

Yep, mine went broody at 3.5 weeks old when I put two chicks in the brooder with her. She is now 3 months old and still taking care of her babies who are 2 months old. It is too cute!

 

[Sphinx]

Phage, initially I thought your white legbar was a cockerel, but when I got looking back at mine from approximately the same age, he was a LOT more red in the comb than yours, so I'll agree with everyone else and say that it's a girl.

Your legbar roosters are so gorgeous it makes me a little envious. My white boy is cute, but not anywhere near as majestic.

 

[Phage]

Thanks Shinx

. I am thinking girl too

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[blackbirds13]

Phage, initially I thought your white legbar was a cockerel, but when I got looking back at mine from approximately the same age, he was a LOT more red in the comb than yours, so I'll agree with everyone else and say that it's a girl.

Your legbar roosters are so gorgeous it makes me a little envious. My white boy is cute, but not anywhere near as majestic.

JMO - This is one reason I am not a fan of the white sports - It defeats the auto-sexing nature. Also I free range my guys a bit so that's really not a great color out there in the fields when we have a good amount of hawks, coyotes and fisher cats. Plus...I have to admit while I can appreciate a beautiful white chicken I just don't care for the color in my chickens, and I don't care for how dingy or dirty it looks and gets. I got the legbars partially because I think the color is very attractive.

Still no whites here and I hope to keep it so.

I think I may line-breed my fbirds if nothing shows up just to try to ensure I don't have them pop up in my flock, but since my husband may limit me to 3 roosters and I want to keep 3 breeds I may have occasion to add a rooster unless I keep a few juvies through the winter....did not think about that until typing it at this moment. Has anyone figured out what pen A (1), B (2) or C (3) they may be coming out of? When Jenny emailed me about my birds she used letter terms but I know some use numbers. Just curious if there has been any correlation of white offspring to birds from a certain pen.

I know some of you love them so no offense is meant in ANY WAY by what I am saying as I feel you should breed what you want to breed. I am no fan of the "your bird has "blank" so you should not breed it' because of SOP or what ever reason though I understand why some say so. They are essentially only chickens and I would like to keep my flock the way I choose to. I am just hoping to avoid the whites. - JMO

 

[ChicKat]

Oh blackbirds13--- I want to confuse the situation even more..... (devilishly laughs)--- Didn't Greenfire also have lines by legband color such as the yellow, green, blue and red? Thought I would throw in some more complexity here. lol

 

[blackbirds13]

I've heard those also. I guess with all those breeds and chickens and as big as they are may have a multitude of recording tactics - it may be like figuring out baseball signals.

 

[boykin2010]

Oh blackbirds13--- I want to confuse the situation even more..... (devilishly laughs)--- Didn't Greenfire also have lines by legband color such as the yellow, green, blue and red? Thought I would throw in some more complexity here. lol

Yes they do. The bands indicate the number/letter of the line. For instance, the red was line 1, the yellow was line 2, the green was line 3, and so on.
Does GFF actually have 4 different lines now or is it just three?

 

[madamwlf]

Yes they do. The bands indicate the number/letter of the line. For instance, the red was line 1, the yellow was line 2, the green was line 3, and so on.
Does GFF actually have 4 different lines now or is it just three?

Are you sure green is for the 3rd line? My original birds are banded green and they came from the original line. Also, I thought they only had 3 lines but they are importing a 4th line this year that will be available next year.