very pretty and love that chickens are photo bomers too. lolAs promised, here's a look at Aretha, our 20-week old CL. She's been laying for 2 weeks, and is as sweet as pie.
Her comb kind of curves over--do you think I'll have trouble with it freezing in the winter time in Indiana?
Pay no attention to the camera hog that jumped in front while I was snapping this picture!
Ya, they are pretty predictable when you are crossing pure breeds. I crossed an unknow with our Cream Legbar this spring and I got 50% black chicks, 25% chipmonks, 25% white (dominant white). Some have feathered feet, some didn't. You would never guess they were full siblings. The mom hatched from what looked like a Marans egg, but came out with dominant white. The egg came from a large farm with tons of breed and was not marked when collected so we just call in a Kika chicken which is the name of the hen. She lays 274 really big eggs her fist year that are a brown. I got a crested white pullet from the hatch that is 22 weeks old that I am hoping to get some speckled moss colored eggs this month.
Very cute walnut how is she doing?On Sunday night I hatched out the first chick from my own legbar girls! It couldn't get out of the tiny egg and after being pipped for 24 hours I helped it. One leg had been positioned badly and it stuck out to the side. The little chick was so tiny, barely bigger than a walnut. But she was spunky and adorable and I gave her a chance. I fashioned a booty for her foot which was curled and a hobble to force the leg down, rather than out. I used the Hovabator as a brooder for the first few days with the lid propped open. She was still very active despite being hobbled and would climb up the little stuffed animal I put in the Hovabator with her. Once she climbed out the opening and fell in the fllor. I decided it was time to move her to the regular brooder. Her she is with her hobble.
Here she is today without the booty or hobble.
Is that a little black bindi on the really light first one? At first glance (the pictures are pretty tiny) I thought it was a boy with a reverse spot because she's so light and there looks like blotching at the back of the head? Any chance for a bigger picture?My two co-brooding little Silkie hens have hatched out 3 of the 5 CL eggs they have been sitting on - 3 pullets with very different down color, out of a pen with 3 cream birds (main rooster and 2 pullets) and 3 gold (backup roo and 2 pullets).
They were so cute on the nest together - I had to unscrew the bucket from the wall to move them to a broody pen, and they never made a sound, just hunkered down even tighter on the eggs/chicks
Different H&H Poultry. Their is an H&H Heritage and Rare Poultry in PA and an H&H Poultry in Texas. The H&H Poultry in Texas is member of the Cream Legbar Club. I have seen photos of the H&H Poultry and PA and proposed a swap with them a few months back to get them some Cream color in their Cream Legbars (which are some very good shape and type birds). They had some two foot pradators at the H&H in PA, though that may delay any possible swaps.
