The Legbar Thread!

[KPenley]

Not sure if it helps but my Barkies just started laying little bitty olive eggs!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Then how do we end up with olive eggers? My CLB rooster crossed with Marans produced all OE layer pullets. Perhaps it is the intensity of the brown that counts? Would be interesting to explore this in more detail.

Because brown genes stack "on top" of blue genes to make green and olive. The more brown genes you have the darker/more olive the egg will appear.

Not sure if it helps but my Barkies just started laying little bitty olive eggs!

Yay!

 

[enola]

What is a barkie?

 

[Chickengirl1304]

ok a little help here please, here are my CCLs im confused about! they all seem to have chipmunk stripes, which ones do you think are boys or girls?

 

[KPenley]

Boy, boy, girl, boy , boy. Those bright big dots are boys.

@Enola, my two Barkies in the hen house were from Silkies covered by a spare Cream Legbar. We thought Barkies was a funny name for them.

 

[nicalandia]

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while CL males do show chipmunk stripes, its very faint and blurry and they have a large yellow headspot, female's chipmunk is well defined and most of the time they lack the headspot or its very small and fait

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Thank you everyone

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Here is a picture of the 3 cockerels. Sorry for the blurryness, the camera lense fogged up when I went from the nice warm house out to the single digits. But the reason I'm posting is for type. The single combed cockerel in the center has a good type in my opinion. Plus, he has the size I want and he is the only single combed rooster on the place that didn't lose any of his comb to frost bite, other than less than a centimeter of a couple tips. The rose comb cockerels have high tails but I have a couple pullets with low tails that should compliment them well.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I should be getting a new camera in a couple weeks so I can take better pictures of birds. Plus I should have the breeding pens set up by March as well

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Looks like a good plan. That middle boy does have nice type. Bonus points that he is a heavy boy!

My scale arrived finally. So now I have to wimp out and say I will get some weights when it warms up a little... I'm not going to go catch and weigh birds when it's 30 degrees out there!