The Legbar Thread!

[madamwlf]

Basically, there goes the market for them. Once a hatchery has them, their value will start to slip. I mean I'm not sure how many people will pay that much for eggs. Did they import their own birds or did they get them from someone else? How long before their birds start producing a hatchery type Legbar like most of the other breeds? Now most of the small time breeders have to compete with a hatchery. Price drop.

 

[normanack]

Anyone get the email from My Pet Chicken?  Cream Legbar eggs, $75 for 6 eggs.  Guess the chicks will be following next year.

And $120 for twelve eggs. Both prices include shipping . . .

I'd like to know what price they'll be asking for the chicks, in comparison to their other breeds. And how big their breeding flock is. And if their pictures are of their eggs and their bird.

 

[cjwaldon]

All the more reason for us to breed towards a standard, to improve what we have, so that what we have is better than "hatchery".

 

[GaryDean26]

haha. Speaking of pics. lmao.... I will take some for you in the next few days. I wanted to last week just so you could see how the babies are turning out. This last week they have changed so much, I think you will happy with your breeding results.

So you kept the light colored chick right. Did you keep any of the other chicks you got on that hatch?

Steen,

I saved two pullets from your hatch. One light and one dark from the banded (B1) side of the hatch. You got the rest of the chicks from that hatch. I went out yesterday to see if I could tell which was the light and which was the dark and I couldn't tell any more. That was the first time I spent much time looking at them this week and I was suprised how much they had changed. The crests jumped out this week. I also have two pullets and a cockerel from our first hatch that are 2 weeks older than yours as well as nine (9) chicks in the brooder that hatched on Tuesday.

Yes, I have been very happy with the results so far. I plan to hatch another 2 dozen eggs and that may be it for a while since one hen stopped laying and I found the other one broody yesterday. This is her 2nd time. Hmmm... should I break her again or just put eggs under her and pack up the incubator for a couple months. What to do? What to do?

 

[TheGeekySheep]

Basically, there goes the market for them. Once a hatchery has them, their value will start to slip. I mean I'm not sure how many people will pay that much for eggs. Did they import their own birds or did they get them from someone else? How long before their birds start producing a hatchery type Legbar like most of the other breeds? Now most of the small time breeders have to compete with a hatchery. Price drop.

I don't have legbars yet, but when the day comes, I would still much rather pay extra and buy from a trusted breeder like Greenfire or Jordan Farm. I know cost is top priority for some but there are still plenty like me who value quality over all.

 

[redchicken9]

OK, many of us are selling hatching eggs by advertising on this site, e-bay, links to our websites in our signature, etc. I think our prices are better, quality of life is better, and many of us have plans to cull and improve to breed standards. I'm glad they priced them high, because there's still room in the market for all of us! Hatching eggs anyone?

 

[Hemlock Hill]

I don't have legbars yet, but when the day comes, I would still much rather pay extra and buy from a trusted breeder like Greenfire or Jordan Farm. I know cost is top priority for some but there are still plenty like me who value quality over all.

MPC IS getting them from a breeder. That's what they always do. I am not sure whom, but I know they used Gabbard Farms before. Gabbard's site doesn't' show legbars right now though.

 

[normanack]

All the more reason for us to breed towards a standard, to improve what we have, so that what we have is better than "hatchery".

I plan only to buy eggs from you all here or people you recommend, if/when I do so. But I'm hoping someone here does buy some MPC eggs so we can all see what their chickens are like. Alternatively, ferret out information on their flock.

 

[Melissa Rose]

My sweet ladies have started laying

!!!!! One of my ladies is from Green Fire and one from Jordan Farms

!!! My sweet hubby has been helping with my breeding pens so I am going to use it for the legbars first

I got the email from My Pet Chicken too and thought those little Hobbit Coops are just so very precious

!!!! Extremely EXPENSIVE but very precious

 

[redchicken9]

I spoke with mypetchicken about 4 months ago. I was told by their representative that they had cream legbars from Greenfire farm (not for sale, yet) and had built a facility where they were raising them for production. So essentially same parent stock.