The Legbar Thread!

[redchicken9]

Thanks all for the hellos and kind words. Looks like the red pullets, blue cockerels are being sent out. Does that mean yellow and green lime are rare? Any other "colors" out there? Also any favorite books covering working with a breed/genetics for poultry?

 

[redchicken9]

Corg33,
I also took several photos of the box exploring it. The legbar babies are so little, cute, and shy! At least mine were shy!

 

[GaryDean26]

Just a note on following the UK Legbar standard (for those who say you plan to breed to it).

The UK standard calls for blue or olive eggs. I am going to be the first on to vote to drop the olive color from the USA standards.

I have been networking with a breeder in England who has some very nice Cream Legbars. She said that she aim is for all blue eggs, but that that it has been a struggle. The photos she has sent me show that about 50% of her eggs are a mint green. Very pretty, but since the lines in the US all showing to have 100% sky blue eggs, I think that will have to be the US standard. No sence in aiming for lower than were we already are at.

 

[Johnn]

melow is 48 weeks and she still isnt laying!, shes taking her time ive been getting some little white eggs and i dont know what hen they are off, i think its off my barnyard mix, i hope its not melows because i want her to have blue ones

 

[cjwaldon]

U.S. lines are not 100% sky blue. Unless you mean the color of the sky just before a tornado, in which case it can occasionally appear green. Just because someone says their eggs are blue doesn't mean it's true. I have emailed a few CCL owners, and my DM has talked to different CCL owners, who admitted that their CCL eggs are green, not blue.

 

[GaryDean26]

Ok...I take that as one vote to for any future US CLB standards to allow people to breed for olive eggers.

My wife saw 18 eggs in an incubator when she visited another CLB breeder and they were all blue. I also saw another clutch of 6 eggs that we all blue. I am sure that at this point we are only seeing the best examples of the breed's eggs, but I am still stuck on the point of UK egg colour standards allowing for olive eggs. Maybe I have spent too much time with the Marans group, but if they can require that a bird produce a No. 4 on the Marans color chart to be called a Maran, I don't see why other breeds with a high emphasis on egg color can't set the mark higher than what the average Joe is able to produce without any effort.

 

[The Sheriff]

Have any of us seen anything other than blue eggs? I bought eggs from 2 sellers, both were blue and now my trio from Greenfire has started laying and the eggs are green. Jeeze I hope I don't get any olive eggs. My coop/yard is connected to the Isbars. I am too old to keep that straight!

 

[boykin2010]

I've never Seen anything but blue eggs. I have heard there were lines that laid green/olive eggs but i thought Greenfire only imported lines that laid blue eggs.

 

[madamwlf]

Have any of us seen anything other than blue eggs? I bought eggs from 2 sellers, both were blue and now my trio from Greenfire has started laying and the eggs are green. Jeeze I hope I don't get any olive eggs. My coop/yard is connected to the Isbars. I am too old to keep that straight!

One of my hens started laying and the eggs were green. Not olive green but still green. Her eggs are now blue.

 

[roncrna]

I'm not happy with my roos combs. Do most of them flop to the side?? I need to take a pic but don't have one yet to post.