The Legbar Thread!

[GaryDean26]

Is anyone else seeing pink spots on their Cream Legbar eggs?

My Ladies are just coming off their first moult and laying darker eggs with pink splatters on them that looks like toothpaste stuck to the outside of the shell.

I only saved two blown eggs from before the moult. Both of them were pale blue eggs without any pink spots.

 

[redchicken9]

Sorry GaryDean26, I haven't seen this problem, but I am without eggs. Out of the last week I've had 3 days with no eggs. Yesterday, just 1 egg. With 7 layers, up until a week ago we averaged something like three or so a day. My ladies are all super healthy and clean, no watery eyes or runny noses or external parasites. The night time weather has dipped in temperature, but I am in a temperate California zone. :/ Around twenty frost nights a year, no snow.

My wyandottes, welsummers, barred rocks are molting, but the CL pullets are in their first year of laying. I've not used lights in the past and had decent laying all winter. With all this said, I think I'll worm. How are other CLs laying? Anyone else having a real slow down? Is this just the weather change, or any other thoughts beyond worming?

 

[Flaming Chicken]

Sorry GaryDean26, I haven't seen this problem, but I am without eggs. Out of the last week I've had 3 days with no eggs. Yesterday, just 1 egg. With 7 layers, up until a week ago we averaged something like three or so a day. My ladies are all super healthy and clean, no watery eyes or runny noses or external parasites. The night time weather has dipped in temperature, but I am in a temperate California zone.

Around twenty frost nights a year, no snow.
My wyandottes, welsummers, barred rocks are molting, but the CL pullets are in their first year of laying. I've not used lights in the past and had decent laying all winter. With all this said, I think I'll worm. How are other CLs laying? Anyone else having a real slow down? Is this just the weather change, or any other thoughts beyond worming?

Mine stopped laying as soon as the days dipped below 14 hours of light. I was getting 2 eggs a day from 3 pullets until then. I am not adding light for them. I will give them the winter off to mature. I'll see what happens in the spring.

 

[GaryDean26]

Is anyone else seeing pink spots on their Cream Legbar eggs?

My Ladies are just coming off their first moult and laying darker eggs with pink splatters on them that looks like toothpaste stuck to the outside of the shell.

I only saved two blown eggs from before the moult. Both of them were pale blue eggs without any pink spots.

I did some poking around. Here is someone else's photo of pink spotted eggs. I know that I have seen information on Cotswold Legbars that said they sometimes lay pink eggs. I was really confused about how that was possible, but now that I am seeing it am wondering if it is linked to the blue egg gene and what others with a longer history of blue egg breeds know about the pink color. Yep...it is really pretty.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/306795/chicken-laying-green-eggs-with-pink-spots

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Fascinating!

Rinda

 

[ChicKat]

In the photo -- the egg on the left has pink spots? It doesn't show on my lap top monitor - or the extra one (Large size) Should this be permanent....you may be starting a run on already decorated eggs. The egg on the right has white spots too--- I have had white spots on eggs over the years...and I think I read someplace it is a calcium deposit irregularity.

Also had some blue spots on brown eggs when my BPRs were starting up---but they settled back down to solid color brown. Here is a pict of that unusual phenom.




It was a pretty shade of blue too.

Probably they will just go back to solid color -- OR --it's something in the Texas water?? LOL

 

[spunkychickenmomma]

Yay!! I can finally say I am the proud owner of Cream Legbars! 9 weeks old and beautiful. Did not get a roo. I will be getting some CL hatching eggs next Spring from a breeder and will look at adding a roo then.

 

[RyeRanch]

One of mine stopped laying a few weeks ago entirely. The others have slowed way down. I am in San Diego. I don't think it has even gotten down into the 40's yet at night.

I am taking the same philosophical approach and not using a light. I figure I will give them a break to mature a bit.

 

[redchicken9]

RyeRanch,
I guess if San Diego, which is much warmer is slowing down, I shouldn't expect mine to continue laying.
Spunkychickenmomma, congrats!!!!!!!

 

[ChicKat]

Yay!! I can finally say I am the proud owner of Cream Legbars! 9 weeks old and beautiful. Did not get a roo. I will be getting some CL hatching eggs next Spring from a breeder and will look at adding a roo then.

Congratulations!! My first two were 9-weeks when I got them. It's a good age to start with them. Yay for proud ownership! Thanks for posting...and remember to put up pictures...we love pictures of these chickens. :O)