The Legbar Thread!

[ChicKat]

nicalancia, those are some beautiful examples of leghorns.

flying - the way you approach it - sounds like the way Punnett describes it also -- in layers. (as in Photoshop layers and not laying hens).

 

[nicalandia]

nicalancia, those are some beautiful examples of leghorns.

you can check more on the following links, most of them are on dutch and german, but they have the coolest leghorn colors

here is the link where I got the crele leghorns
http://www.kippenencyclopedie.nl/php/index.php?title=Leghorn

the Leghorn club uk page
http://www.theleghornclub.com/PhotosYPartridge.asp


German with LOTS of cool colors
http://www.sv-zwerg-italiener.de/?q=node/25

including only "Salmon" Leghorns I have yet to see, basically eWh S/S Mh http://www.sv-zwerg-italiener.de/?q=node/41

 

[ChicKat]

Thanks - those are pretty amazing birds-- I used Google translator to translate from German to English. (Do you know German - or do you translate? -- Is Spanish the language of Nicarauga?)-- Here is part of the translation that started me wondering about the Salmon:

"Back and shoulders brown, possibly interspersed with some yellow white."

It makes me wonder if "yellow white" is cream? LOL

The way the birds are posed is pretty awesome. Birds trained for showing? I see that they have to have the good type -- but they really look "perfect" in the photos. The Europeans, especially German & Dutch people have raised their chickens to an art from, IMO.

 

[AlleysFarm]

Ok my legbars are finally hatching, these seem to be so hard to get to hatch. Out of the nine I put into lock down so far two appear to be DIS, four have hatched with two more hatching and so far all appear to be BOYS..

They are very light in color but can defiantly not see any defining striping and they each have dots on their heads.

What do you guys think? Knowing my luck they are all going to be boys...

 

[ChicKat]

They look a little damp -- I'm guessing that you do have boys. Sometimes girls have a faint headspot...but girls definitely have those prominent stripes. -- Maybe the ones that you have yet to hatch will be the girls.

Don't under-rate boys, though..... they make up 1/2 the genetic composition of the future generations..... eventhough fewer are needed proportionately. Good roosters should be in high demand. Just need to find the right circumstances. AND -- you will have three to choose from.

ETA - maybe on long odds, the bottom one fluffs into stripes?

 

[KPenley]

Alleysfarm, how's the hatch going? Once they're all dry and fluffy it should be obvious who's who. Congratulations!

 

[nicalandia]

Thanks - those are pretty amazing birds-- I used Google translator to translate from German to English. (Do you know German - or do you translate?
.

Yes amazing birds, and in Nicaragua we have 2 official languages, Spanish and creole inglish(sounds like jamaican)

"Back and shoulders brown, possibly interspersed with some yellow white."

It makes me wonder if "yellow white" is cream? LOL

they have rich colored shoulders, but they are Based on Silver like the Salmon Faverolles, they are also based on wheaten like the faverolle. so they are Red enhanced Silver wheaten birds


and they do train them in the Old World, I have a few friends from those parts of the world, Henk is one of them

 

[nicalandia]

They look a little damp --

yes, they need to be dry... the Only cross you could tell Sex even Before hatch is the Silkie male over White leghorn female. and when they hatch even if they were damp you can sex them

 

[CibolaChooks]

Hey buddy, that is what I do ALL the time. start with the base color and keep adding genes.... great minds think alike I guess...!

hey I lost my official "Educator" tag, due to that Blue debate at the Sumatra thread. now I'll have to "Educate" on an "Unofficially" way....

still learning to be nice i guess. debates are often only used to put people down.

 

[CibolaChooks]

When i look at lonnyandrinda rooster i can see some color in the neck and saddle just where the barring should be, id say its imo yellow white. When i look at the uk birds and the ladys birds silverfox got his eggs from i see allot of yellow white. Ill have to look where i read it but in punnetts own work he described the cream as having a large range in the shades of the cream color.

"Back and shoulders brown, possibly interspersed with some yellow white."

It makes me wonder if "yellow white" is cream? LOL