The Legbar Thread!

[dretd]

Not the best of pictures but here he is with his girls. His tail does sit a bit too high so I'm hoping one of the hens will throw me a nice rooster. The 3rd picture shows the hen that lays the green egg. I'm still doubting whether she is pure or not. Unfortunately the back of his comb is pushed to the side due to the crest he has.

 

[madamwlf]

I would love to show you if she would lay more eggs. I would call the egg color more mint green. I can tell the difference between hers and the other Legbar hens which is why she has stayed in that pen. No need to traumatize her when I know her eggs from the others.

 

[dretd]

I would love to show you if she would lay more eggs. I would call the egg color more mint green. I can tell the difference between hers and the other Legbar hens which is why she has stayed in that pen. No need to traumatize her when I know her eggs from the others.

Well, I will look forward to seeing pictures when she decides to stop being contrary!

If you have access to an OAC (you can even look it up online and see a blow-up of each page), the eggs that I have received have mostly been OAC81,OAC123 (prob the most common), OAC 151. The first 2 I would consider on the green side and the 151 blue-green. None have been more blue than that.

 

[ChicKat]

Well, I will look forward to seeing pictures when she decides to stop being contrary!

If you have access to an OAC (you can even look it up online and see a blow-up of each page), the eggs that I have received have mostly been OAC81,OAC123 (prob the most common), OAC 151. The first 2 I would consider on the green side and the 151 blue-green. None have been more blue than that.

Yes, I agree!! I would like to see oac213 oac214 and oac235 and oac255--- but I'm sitting in weird flourescent lighting -- so maybe in tru color lighting those are different.

How did we get so green? Does anyone have these colors? Anyone out there at all?

 

[HaplessRunner]

Yes, I agree!! I would like to see oac213 oac214 and oac235 and oac255--- but I'm sitting in weird flourescent lighting -- so maybe in tru color lighting those are different.

How did we get so green? Does anyone have these colors? Anyone out there at all?

Well, my experience in obtaining hatching eggs was mixed with respect to egg color. About half of the eggs that I acquired were a light blue-green and the other half were a darker blue-green. The darker ones were significantly darker. These were eggs that were available and I am new to the breed.

 

[KPenley]

I have had a huge range of colors throughout the past few months from my birds (but mostly OAC 123 to 151, occasionally one will throw a 179). I think it has to do with genetics, feed, amount of sunlight, and who knows what else lol (maybe we should try singing to them to see if it makes a difference heehee). I think Mr. C hit it on the head with the dye pack idea (that at the start of the cycle the largest amount of brown was available so most eggs would be their greenest). Crazy part is that until Lucy went broody there was no pause in her laying, so maybe she went through multiple cycles creating the different colors along the way.

 

[dretd]

I have had a huge range of colors throughout the past few months from my birds (but mostly OAC 123 to 151, occasionally one will throw a 179). I think it has to do with genetics, feed, amount of sunlight, and who knows what else lol (maybe we should try singing to them to see if it makes a difference heehee). I think Mr. C hit it on the head with the dye pack idea (that at the start of the cycle the largest amount of brown was available so most eggs would be their greenest). Crazy part is that until Lucy went broody there was no pause in her laying, so maybe she went through multiple cycles creating the different colors along the way.

I have thought that about the brown, too. However, if you look at the inside of the shell without the membrane, the egg is still green not true-blue so the pigment has to be in the egg shell as it is deposited. I have looked at the interior if the shell on some of my other breeds and some are really white with brown on the outside and some, like my EE, have a tinted egg and the tinting is present on the interior so she has to have some pigment applied throughout the shell formation process, not just in the end and 'spray painted' on.

The other thing is that not all hens will have a loss in color of their shells over time. I have a Welsummer that lays a beautiful terracotta colored egg. She was the first to start laying in the spring and cranks out 5-6 large eggs a week and the eggs are still a really beautiful terracotta color. Only change is that the shell has more dark spotting on the surface than earlier in the season.

 

[pginsber]

Broody give up, smashed 3 of the eggs, I smashed the remaining three then an hour after she went broody again.

Seriously--right? My CL has been broody for 2-3 weeks and I'm having ZERO luck breaking her. We're going to separate her this weekend, and block off the nestboxes at night. UGH!

 

[Flaming Chicken]

Just read on the FB breeders page. Jill Reese shipped 2 days ago to New York for GreenFires 2014 breeding program!

 

[normanack]

Just read on the FB breeders page. Jill Reese shipped 2 days ago to New York for GreenFires 2014 breeding program!

Who's up for a Florida road trip? Just to go and look at them. Seriously, I would not hang out at the gate and beg for a chick, any chick, any breed. Nope, I have too much dignity to do that. (Heh.)