The Legbar Thread!

[Papa Brooder]

I will join in with the newly found eggs. Over the span of 4 days 3 out of 4 of my CLs started laying, nice sized eggs too compared to most of the other first eggs I have been getting. very excited. Gonna start hatching in 3 weeks! can't wait.

 

[longgrove]

Congrats on the layers! I'm hoping to get a 6 month old silkie next weekend. If she does the silkie thing and gets reliably broody, I will be in the market for CL eggs tho hoping to find some near me to avoid shipping. (guess I'm not the only early bird on line!)
Nell

 

[LiAuEv]

Hi, my oldest Cream Legbar hen just layed her first egg at exactly 19 weeks old yesterday! It's a pretty lil' blue thing that I wish I could post a pic of but my camera is not loading propoerly.

 

[CarolJ]

My three cream legbar pullets were 19 weeks old on Sunday. So I'll start looking for eggs any day now.

 

[blackbirds13]

Congrats to all on the eggs and chicks - new layers and older ones alike! Keep those good vibes going.


My younger pullet's eggs are definitely smaller but nice color. Posted pictures on the UK poultry site of my birds to get some feedback - will relay what is said - as bad as it might be

Spent some time this morning with what I have left. Hawks have set up house somewhere within 50 - 100 yards of my coops...with 13 acres they could have gone further back but nope! My husband says he has heard their young'uns calling.
I've lost quite a few birds -Legbars and Marans but no Orps so far. I will definitely have to incubate some more though I had put away the bator. but gotta be ready for spring so gotta re-think things over here - I may put older, paler boy with younger paler crest and hackle girl and single mate those two for eggs this time or re-home or separate my younger male from the rest.
Looking at my early pictures my first rooster was definitely lighter than my younger boy from the start. My girls have a bit of range of color in their hackles from one to the other. But the crests on 2 are too dark for the UK standard I think but at least they are crested....my original thinking that I would be in for some work ahead was a definite truism.

I joined that facebook site but don't find it appealing. There's seems to be negativity about the color without much going forward advice... I'm concerned about this UK standard issue and the need to meet it exactly as I know there are differences in the APA standards for breeds the US and UK share...British Orps and US Orps look and are standardized differently...not sure what to think about all of this right now. The lines we have are the lines we have and there has been a lot of intermingling of them so we are all in the same boat and I find all the pooh-poohing a bit disheartening. I'm thinking of staying away from the computer for a bit and just doing my own thing for a while. There are things about the birds in the UK that could be different for us here in the US in a beneficial way....like a smaller comb...but I know that's just my own personal thing

Gotta run.

 

[blackbirds13]

https://sites.google.com/site/creamlegbarsonline/home

this was a site recommended to me on Thepoultrykeeper.

Think my younger boy may be out.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

https://sites.google.com/site/creamlegbarsonline/home

this was a site recommended to me on Thepoultrykeeper.

Think my younger boy may be out.

Wow that is great, love all the side by side color comparisions. Thanks for sharing!

 

[ChicKat]

.... There are things about the birds in the UK that could be different for us here in the US in a beneficial way....like a smaller comb...but I know that's just my own personal thing

Gotta run.

Hi blackbirds13,

reinforcing what you were saying....the UK Araucana has a tail and a crest (eta as well as tail-less)...The USA has no tail and no crest...... pretty big differences IMO. ;O)

 

[ChicKat]

https://sites.google.com/site/creamlegbarsonline/home

this was a site recommended to me on Thepoultrykeeper.

Think my younger boy may be out.

The hens/pullets on that sight do show the difference between the gold colored necks and the cream. My female has the 'cream'. But on that sight the color of the cock is wrong IMO according to how Punnett describes it in his own writings.


GaryDean had posted this quite some time back as a link.

http://www.ias.ac.in/jarch/jgenet/41/1.pdf

so unless my computer is fading the picture that cockerel appears to have no gold and no chestnut. I think that we are obsessing about something that is not a problem at all IMO. So the originator of the breed said that the cockerel has pale gold hackles and bright chestnut wing coverts... someone in the UK has it wrong. LOL It also says that the females have "gold in the hackles and salmon in the breast are less intense"....not missing.

This is from the guy who created the breed. I'm going by that as the standard for our birds.

Now I feel that she SHOULD have some gold...poor girl. :O)

One more thing....I think that they pushed the 'saturation' button on that over colored rooster. O.K. that is my 2-cents-worth.

 

[RachaelS]

ChicKat, thanks for posting again. I was going to ask that and never got around to it "What was the original chicken supposed to look like?", sounds like what we have is closer to the original, it also seems that a LOT in the UK also have closer to original not to UK SOP.