The Legbar Thread!

[GaryDean26]

Curtis Hale has been doing a lot of research and documentation of the creation of Cream Legbars and hopefully soon will be ready to share his work.

The writing is done. It still needs some swanky pedigree trees to be put together to show all the recorded crosses though. The Cream Legbar Club's Breed History will be the first place that I know of that will have all of this information listed together. Several different research projects over 10 years years time went into the creation of the first Cream Legbar. Thanks to Historian David Schrivenger sending us some copies from his personal collection of historical documents published by the Auto-sexing Poultry Association of Great Britain in the 1940-50's, the achieves of publications from the Journal of Genetics, and some other books and pamphlets written by Punnett and Pease that we got through inter Library loans, the History Committee of the Cream Legbar Working Group (CLWG) was able to put most of the pieces of the puzzle together. Our full list of references will be listed on the club's breed history (which will be on our website for everyone to read). There were four relevant articles in the Journal of Genetics, three in the Auto-Sexing Poultry Association's publications, and a few publication from the interlibrary loans (Bulletin 38, Sex-links in Poultry, etc.)

 

[Flaming Chicken]

Wait and see.  I've had babies with waves in their comb that straightened out as they grew into their comb.


  Let me know what you get!!!!

7 eggs pipping and zipping. Nail biting. Can't wait!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

The writing is done. It still needs some swanky pedigree trees to be put together to show all the recorded crosses though. The Cream Legbar Club's Breed History will be the first place that I know of that will have all of this information listed together. Several different research projects over 10 years years time went into the creation of the first Cream Legbar. Thanks to Historian David Schrivenger sending us some copies from his personal collection of historical documents published by the Auto-sexing Poultry Association of Great Britain in the 1940-50's, the achieves of publications from the Journal of Genetics, and some other books and pamphlets written by Punnett and Pease that we got through inter Library loans, the History Committee of the Cream Legbar Working Group (CLWG) was able to put most of the pieces of the puzzle together. Our full list of references will be listed on the club's breed history (which will be on our website for everyone to read). There were four relevant articles in the Journal of Genetics, three in the Auto-Sexing Poultry Association's publications, and a few publication from the interlibrary loans (Bulletin 38, Sex-links in Poultry, etc.)

You guys really did your homework!

7 eggs pipping and zipping. Nail biting. Can't wait!

 

[FridayYet]

The writing is done. It still needs some swanky pedigree trees to be put together to show all the recorded crosses though. The Cream Legbar Club's Breed History will be the first place that I know of that will have all of this information listed together. Several different research projects over 10 years years time went into the creation of the first Cream Legbar. Thanks to Historian David Schrivenger sending us some copies from his personal collection of historical documents published by the Auto-sexing Poultry Association of Great Britain in the 1940-50's, the achieves of publications from the Journal of Genetics, and some other books and pamphlets written by Punnett and Pease that we got through inter Library loans, the History Committee of the Cream Legbar Working Group (CLWG) was able to put most of the pieces of the puzzle together. Our full list of references will be listed on the club's breed history (which will be on our website for everyone to read). There were four relevant articles in the Journal of Genetics, three in the Auto-Sexing Poultry Association's publications, and a few publication from the interlibrary loans (Bulletin 38, Sex-links in Poultry, etc.)

Awesome work!

Can't wait to read it.

 

[GaryDean26]

You guys really did your homework!

I want to point out that the group aslo was able to track down the September 1948 issue of National Geographic (issue?) which a modern history reference of rare breed poultry indicated was a major story on the Cream Legbar. It didn't pan out. It was a great article which I later found out was the same article my Dad read when he was growing up that resluted in him getting the first "Aracanas" in his area some 40 years ago, but the article was actually on the originas of the Easter Eggers in the U.S. and said nothing about Cream Legbars. I guess that just show the importance of tracking down primary sources (although we found an error in one of the article in Journal of Genetic by Punnett too. It listed Clarence Elliot (the Botonist who gifted the Chilean Hens to Punnet for Research) as Claude Elliot (who I believe was a Pro base ball player at the time). Oops! I guess that is why you need to or three sources to get the story right.

 

[GaryDean26]

Awesome work!

Can't wait to read it.

It is one of our top priorities along with getting the club website up so that we have a place to post it.

 

[Flaming Chicken]

You guys really did your homework!

This morning I have 5 new cream leg bar chicks. 4 are from Rinda, 2 boys, 1 girl with beautiful markings and 1 white one (!) that needs to fluff up a little, hoping its a girl. Of mine, I have 2 that died after zipping, 1vigorous boy and one zipping and cheeping when I left for work. I moved the remaining egg into the other bator with a humidity of 70 and hoping for one more today. Not sure why the 2 died, i have not had that happen before. I am thrilled to add Huggers babies, it can only help.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Hooray! It is strange, towards the beginning of the year I hatched a lot and not a single white popped up. Now I'm getting one about every other week with weekly hatches of 15-30. Hm. Hope it's a girl for you! Are the boys dark or light down?

 

[Flaming Chicken]

They were still pretty matted this morning. I'll post some pictures tonight when I get home. When I got up this morning, I saw all 4 were out and the white one was in the back. I got all excited thinking really light down then i realized that it was the sport white and got excited for different reasons.

 

[normanack]

Quoth, the Silkie broody, with three Ice Cream Legbars from ChicKat's rooster Ice and GaryDean26's hens (is that right?), and Quoth's own Silkie chick on the right. I just have to call them Ice Cream Legbars -- the name is too cool to pass up. Informally of course.



Chick A.



Chicks B (background) and C (foreground).



Quoth kicked the last three eggs out of the nest the day after hatch. My daughter stubbornly put them back, but Quoth kicked them out again the next day. I trust the broody, but stuck the eggs in the hatcher for one more day because I'm as stubborn as my daughter.