The Legbar Thread!

[Gallus Sapien]

I've been lurking this thread for a while now, I have a pair of Legbars that I hatched out in September of last year. I was very lucky, I only got three eggs and two hatched, A PAIR! Now they have grown quite a bit and I think the hen is getting very close to laying I was wondering how they are looking. And thanks ahead for any critiques

Here is my boy, he is very protective over his hens (I have a tetra tint hen in with him too, and her eggs are fertile

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A closer shot of him, he had a very small crest as a chick too



Here he is with the hen, he won't let her out of his site, she has a little crest going on


These are the best shot I could get of her

Love that roo...

 

[GaryDean26]

I actually won the eggs off of ebay, it was a lucky bid too. I somehow managed to only get them for 99 cents, plus shipping, no one else had bid on them. I was very nervous about setting such a small amount of eggs so I set some of my mixes along with them, just in case. I believe the seller was foghornsleghorns? I was also told they were all from separate pens so they wouldn't be siblings.

As for laying, all my hens stopped laying this winter, between the funky weather we had here one day 70's the next freezing, it was just odd. Over the past week my hens one by one have started laying again, the weather is starting the even out. And my little Legbar hens comb is really starting to redden now. I actually took pictures of the eggs before I set them too and they were a pretty blue, with a hint of green. So the hens eggs should follow her color right?

Nice! Since those are an unrelated pair I would go ahead and hatch a lot of chicks this year. Looks like you got just what you need to start your flock.

I really like the combs and crest on both of them too. Some people are shooting for larger crests, but my best results were from modest crested pullets and small crested cockerels. I ended up with floppy twisted combs on the F1 cockerels when I paired a better crested rooster with a well crested hen.

 

[ChicKat]

I actually won the eggs off of ebay, it was a lucky bid too. I somehow managed to only get them for 99 cents, plus shipping, no one else had bid on them. I was very nervous about setting such a small amount of eggs so I set some of my mixes along with them, just in case. I believe the seller was foghornsleghorns? I was also told they were all from separate pens so they wouldn't be siblings.

As for laying, all my hens stopped laying this winter, between the funky weather we had here one day 70's the next freezing, it was just odd. Over the past week my hens one by one have started laying again, the weather is starting the even out. And my little Legbar hens comb is really starting to redden now. I actually took pictures of the eggs before I set them too and they were a pretty blue, with a hint of green. So the hens eggs should follow her color right?

Agreeing with Rinda, the coloring should be consistent. In EEs I had a 1-generation color intensification - I'm thinking thanks to that particular rooster's contribution to the genetics.

-- Post back the color sameness or difference when this pullet lays. Out of curiosity, was it the center egg that didn't hatch?

 

[Phage]

Could you guys advise if these have correct coloring. They look cream to me (I have another hen that is gold for sure). Thanks!

 

[nicalandia]

not quite.. she looks like a none red enhanced gold crele, cream crele hens should have a greyish body like silver crele hens


henk´s none red enhanced(no red enhancers) gold crele dutch bantam hens

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I think the color difference Nicalandia is talking about may be because these photos were taken in the shade on a sunny day. Can you get a shot in the sun? They certainly do have cream hackles though if that was your question.

Rinda

 

[Phage]

Thanks

 

[nicalandia]

I think the color difference Nicalandia is talking about may be because these photos were taken in the shade on a sunny day. Can you get a shot in the sun? They certainly do have cream hackles though if that was your question.

Rinda

cream colored hackles is no indication of recessive autosomal cream, more so on sex linked barred hens... just look at henks gold crele hens, they also have cream colored hackles...why? simple, Barring does dilute the gold tone a bit, now if you Add recessive Autosomal Cream? now with Barring and cream combo this turns the pullets a Near Silver look to them, not only the hackles but the greyish body

These photos are shared with the BYC Cream Legbar commununity with the permission of Amanda Rowe of Scartop Poultry.

 

[dretd]

Here he is with the hen, he won't let her out of his site, she has a little crest going on

Nice roo and hen--very lucky hatch!

Speaking of colors in shadow and light, look at the difference between the same roo in the first 2 photos where he is gleaming in the light and the next one in the shadow. He has a golden cast to his hackles in the shadow that is not at all apparent in the light. I think this is a really good illustration about the limitations of looking at photos taken in different lighting and then displayed on different monitors at home.

 

[Sphinx]

I love seeing all the gorgeous birds.

I got a new legbar rooster this week. He was an early 2012 greenfire chick. It seems like I heard their newer birds have better coloring, and their 2011-early 2012 have too much orange/salmon, correct? Judging by my birds, I think it's that way.

I wanted to post a picture of him with what I think are the correct critiques, and see if I have it right or not. Forgive his appearance. The person I got him from kept him at a property where he didn't get a lot of human interaction. When they tried to catch him to get him to me, it didn't go well. Then, when I was transferring him to MY carrying case, he got out, and it was an adventure getting him back. So, he looks quite rumpled from the whole thing. He also has some frostbitten comb tips that fell off sometime last winter, so I have no idea how many points he did have.


If my research is correct, his legs should be much more yellow, correct? Also, isn't there way too much rust in his body/saddles? I'm not planning on becoming a big-time breeder, but I am wanting to better educate myself on SOP on chicken breeds in general, and this breed in particular.