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I just got a call from Jenny, she cleared everything up for me about my order and was very nice to talk to and answered the couple questions I had. She said she will email me on Monday with more info on the ship date which should be within the next couple weeks
 
Glad you got your order straightened out. I just visited your Facebook page. Nice picture. Is that where you live? I sent a friend request to you. If you can be friends with Mahonri, then you can be friends with me!
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Yes, that is where I live. The picture was taken in the driveway, I was actually seeing how the sunglasses looked on me but figured I'd post it anyway, lol. When you go through my pics, you will see lots of random pics from around the farmstead. I am getting rather excited still! I have breeding plans for these and have had a plan to work on my own line. She said that the legbars don't start laying until they are 6-7 months old so I have a breeding plan to fix that in a couple breedings.
 
Now my anticipated ship date is March 5. I will also be getting some pullets in April to breed to the legbar cockerel when the time comes that should be laying around the same time as the legbar pullets. I was talking to another BYC member about it today. Since the legbars don't lay until they are 6-7 months old, I plan to breed them to pure leghorns to fix some things I don't really like about them. I'll be getting some single and rose combed light brown leghorn pullets from a hatchery to help improve the egg laying and vigor. I will be getting some rose combed light brown and single combed dark brown leghorn eggs from a show breeder to improve the type. No offense to anyone but I don't really care for the type of the legbars, seems like they are too cobby and just don't 'flow' like I always pictured them.
I will end up with 3 breeding pens but coming from 5 different 'types'. The main pen will be pure legbars that I hope to expand by next year. The second pen will be the hatchery stock leghorns. And the third pen will be the show type leghorns. I have a set of cages that is 3 levels that can each be divided into 3 pens. This way I could put one divider in for the pure legbar hens to keep track of those lines, the hatchery and show leghorns can be divided into varieties. This will require the cock being moved around lots but it will help in the long run.

I don't know about everyone else but my goal with the legbars is to have more of a production type bird that lays nice and looks nice. The legbars ideally fit my goal, the crele is nice and they are auto sexing. I just need to increase egg laying. Just like with all the non-standard style breeds, everyone has their own ideal looking bird when selecting breeder birds for next season.
 
Hi all!

Can anyone point me in a good direction for leg bar hatching eggs? I am really liking this breed and would love to start a nice flock of them, but I would much prefer to hatch them myself rather than buying the chicks-- I think I might be just a little addicted to the whole hatching thing! I looked on eBay tonight, though I am generally a little scared to buy hatching eggs off eBay, but there aren't any currently listed. Appreciate any advice you all have. I usually stick to my beloved BLRW's, but these birds are really amazingly appealing to me!

Thanks-
Donna
 

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