The Legbar Thread!

[jlynnp]

Now some of my new chicks could be crested as 3 of this ladies hens are. How long will it be before I know?

 

[ChicKat]

Now some of my new chicks could be crested as 3 of this ladies hens are. How long will it be before I know?

You can see two great sets of photos on this link:
http://www.creamlegbarclub.com/12-how-cream-legbars-grow---photo-essay

both by members of the Cream Legbar Club---

as you can see in the one by harriedhomemaker---- by 2-weeks you can see little crests. - so somewhere around that time you will probably notice them starting to sprout.
HTH

 

[Hurley]

I tried to search for this but didn't find what I was looking for. I have 5 legbars, at hatch showing 3 females, 2 males. They have grown as expected and suggested by their chick color until now. The roosters light, barred, very obviously different from the females. The boys are gaining comb size as expected and 2 of the pullets look like girls as expected...then I have one with pullet coloration that is combing out like a rooster and is gaining mahogany patched over the wings like a rooster. Photo of oddball below. Have you seen this?

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I tried to search for this but didn't find what I was looking for. I have 5 legbars, at hatch showing 3 females, 2 males. They have grown as expected and suggested by their chick color until now. The roosters light, barred, very obviously different from the females. The boys are gaining comb size as expected and 2 of the pullets look like girls as expected...then I have one with pullet coloration that is combing out like a rooster and is gaining mahogany patched over the wings like a rooster. Photo of oddball below. Have you seen this?

that's a hybrid male. No way it's pure or female.

 

[enola]

that's a hybrid male. No way it's pure or female.

I agree, hybrid and NOT a pullet.

Did this chick have a head spot?

 

[Hurley]

No head spot. And yeah, definitely don't think it's a pullet, it's just marked nearly the same as the pullets I got, while the cockerels are light and very barred.

 

[ChicKat]

I tried to search for this but didn't find what I was looking for. I have 5 legbars, at hatch showing 3 females, 2 males. They have grown as expected and suggested by their chick color until now. The roosters light, barred, very obviously different from the females. The boys are gaining comb size as expected and 2 of the pullets look like girls as expected...then I have one with pullet coloration that is combing out like a rooster and is gaining mahogany patched over the wings like a rooster. Photo of oddball below. Have you seen this?

What a colorful chicken! BTW - love your Iowa Blue website and how organized your club looks...Good job! Nice chickens too.

 

[Hurley]

Thanks.

I picked up some legbars (supposed to be from a Greenfire flock, but who really knows) for some color in my layer flock. Wanted autosexing breed laying blue eggs. Lovely birds.

 

[jlynnp]

This is a 3 week old Cream Legbar lady I hatched - the only one out of 16 eggs to hatch.


These are my new CL babies, sorry for the dirty brooder but they poop soooo much!

 

[ChicKat]

This is a 3 week old Cream Legbar lady I hatched - the only one out of 16 eggs to hatch.


These are my new CL babies, sorry for the dirty brooder but they poop soooo much!

Nice chicks! So 5 girls and 5 boys - They look like they are growing fast...sometimes it seems that their wing-feathers grow so fast their bodies can't quite keep up....for a while. Thanks for putting up pictures. Love Cream Legbar chicks!!!