The Legbar Thread!

[stoneunhenged]

I took this pic of a legbar hen at the Domestic Fowl Trust in the UK. I thought you guys might enjoy. It's great to see the enthusiasm here for the breed.

 

[Zgoatlady]

from WyoChickenMama:
"But when you look at feedback on Ebay, most people who are selling have great feedback scores. My lesson learned from all of this is to email them before you bid/BIN and ask a lot of questions. . . . . Bottom line, buyer beware."
Boy, did I ever learn that! My hardwon advice for eBay eggs is
1. Know the seller. Write, call (if possible), ask around. Someone, somewhere, will have information about their birds.
2. Bargain-shopping on eBay, through choice or necessity, is not the way to start a flock. Save up and wait.
3. If you have any reservations whatsoever, even just a funny feeling you can't put your finger on, don't buy.
4. Don't buy eggs on eBay.

Oh Ive gotten great eggs on EBay before there are a lot of good people on it as well as some shady folks. You know you can also get taken on Craigs list and other place's too.
So the last message was Im running to work.
But after reading the info on Ebay I have to go through Ebay..

 

[Zgoatlady]

Ok She was very nice and sent me my full amount back I was suprised, I was just going to tell her to keep The shipping money cause didnt think she need'd to give that back. So Id say if you have a problem try to contact her again and see what happens.
NOW for some more eggs

 

[WyoChickenMamma]

That is great news. Glad she refunded your money.

 

[ChicKat]

I took this pic of a legbar hen at the Domestic Fowl Trust in the UK. I thought you guys might enjoy. It's great to see the enthusiasm here for the breed.

Thank you so much for the photo. If I were judging the color, would I be correct to say that the salmon at the throat is a little too vivid?

 

[blackbirds13]

Thank you so much for the photo. If I were judging the color, would I be correct to say that the salmon at the throat is a little too vivid?

I think I would agree with you as to what a lot of the critiques in the UK have been for the breast color. The hackles are nice and cream and that seems to be where the major color issue is between the US and the UK. They seem to prefer a really pale bird. Given the post by GaryDean about the cream that's what I'm focusing on for color for sure. I also am going to be watching out for egg size as I think my younger girls eggs are too small for my liking...still hoping they get bigger, and her type seems slighter than my hen but she is younger so I'll be checking for type also as she grows out and in my flock as general. I'm gonna take that as a given as I go forward.




I don't have a scale - may get one soon. I need one to weigh the birds also. I want to keep them within the standard and not too heavy plus I'll need it for if or when I decide to finally sell eggs or birds and ship. Just gotta get them to where I won't mind selling them to someone as a true Cream Legbars.
The 3 eggs in the bator are developing - trying the dry incubation method - I want to improve my Marans hatch rate next year so I'm practicing on these eggs.
I think I'll put more eggs in this week, at least a dozen plus, and see what happens. Can't believe I'm hatching eggs again with all I have going on....

 

[Papa Brooder]

Quote: For me as well, about 50/50 on ebay purchases. I did have a couple of bad ones though that jaded me such that I stopped buying there. I agree that asking around in a forum like this is the way to go as you can get a lot of feedback and find satisfied customers with fully developed offspring!

Side note, my CLs have been laying for about a month now. They are from the first and second lines from GFF. I have another 5 hens and 6 roos from the third line that are about 4 weeks younger. I was planning on splitting the females and keeping one roo over them from those lines and then putting the third line roo over the other two. i'm gonna need some help choosing my roos! I'll try to post some pictures to get feedback as they eggs have been getting bigger each day and I am thinking about starting to actually hatch some of these out to see what I get.

 

[redchicken9]

I think I would agree with you as to what a lot of the critiques in the UK have been for the breast color. The hackles are nice and cream and that seems to be where the major color issue is between the US and the UK. They seem to prefer a really pale bird. Given the post by GaryDean about the cream that's what I'm focusing on for color for sure. I also am going to be watching out for egg size as I think my younger girls eggs are too small for my liking...still hoping they get bigger, and her type seems slighter than my hen but she is younger so I'll be checking for type also as she grows out and in my flock as general. I'm gonna take that as a given as I go forward.




I don't have a scale - may get one soon. I need one to weigh the birds also. I want to keep them within the standard and not too heavy plus I'll need it for if or when I decide to finally sell eggs or birds and ship. Just gotta get them to where I won't mind selling them to someone as a true Cream Legbars.
The 3 eggs in the bator are developing - trying the dry incubation method - I want to improve my Marans hatch rate next year so I'm practicing on these eggs.
I think I'll put more eggs in this week, at least a dozen plus, and see what happens. Can't believe I'm hatching eggs again with all I have going on....

I finally have got to weighing eggs and mine are under 50kg. It's been screaming hot, but despite the heat 3 (poss. 4) of my 8 cream legbars are now laying. Two of them just started in the past week, which is crazy because my other hens are down on egg production. I think when it cools down, they'll all lay. For those of you like Debsflock who weigh their eggs, what is the biggest you've had? I'd say my eggs are small to small medium for standard poultry.

PapaBrooder, I wasn't sure if you were keeping a 1 male to 1 female ratio or keeping a representative from each line. Either way I'm definitely interested in seeing more roosters. Mine are "colorful" compared to the the double cream frequently extolled in UK. Currently I think I'm going to keep 2-3 genetic lines and be conscientious of the cream color, but I'm not certain I want to bleach out my males. Any others feel this way?

 

[anniesmom]

I finally have got to weighing eggs and mine are under 50kg. It's been screaming hot, but despite the heat 3 (poss. 4) of my 8 cream legbars are now laying. Two of them just started in the past week, which is crazy because my other hens are down on egg production. I think when it cools down, they'll all lay. For those of you like Debsflock who weigh their eggs, what is the biggest you've had? I'd say my eggs are small to small medium for standard poultry.

I have been getting eggs for about two weeks now. Eight have been between 31 and 39 grams, four have been between 41 and 49 grams and three have been over 50 grams.

 

[Johnn]

Hey guys! Wil any of yo vote for which breed i should hatch first next year? https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/699097/what-hatching-eggs-should-i-hatch-out-first-pics-of-breeds ( ic couldnt figure out how to do a poll), cream Legbar is a option, Melow is the star for that breed photo. Also a cream legbar x welsummer.