The Legbar Thread!

[ChicKat]

I agree redchicken9--- I think his line was the yellow legband from Greenfire.

 

[Thespoiledchicken]

Here is my 'little' guy. He will be 16 weeks old on Monday.

I was gone for a week, and there is nothing like being gone to see how much little ones have grown.
The white sickle feathering in his tail is new...his wattles much bigger as are his ear lobes...and his comb is quite large. Not showing here---he is all legs -- tall and wiry. He is fiesty but once caught and held very sweet.

He is a cutie pie! I will be real happy if my boy looks like him

And definitely nice straight comb- but I must admit....There is something about those floppy combs that just makes me giggle, I really like them.


Trish

 

[ChicKat]

He is a cutie pie! I will be real happy if my boy looks like him

And definitely nice straight comb- but I must admit....There is something about those floppy combs that just makes me giggle, I really like them.


Trish

Yup--- I was just thinking today how just awhile back I was saying that I didn't like the big combs and wattles that legbars have....and today it is just so obvious that it suits them, and their personalities. guess I'm fickle/changeable. I guess too, if a legbar had a floppy comb it would indicate good egg production. Can't wait to learn more about them.

Seems like I also read that big combs are a sign of virility/fertility in roosters...so both are good indicators for legbars.

 

[LiAuEv]

My Cream Legbar love birds 6 weeks old

 

[Thespoiledchicken]

My Cream Legbar love birds 6 weeks old

What a great pic! So sweet

 

[ChicKat]

What a great pic! So sweet

X2 -- adorable!!!

 

[Laingcroft]

Chickat - your boy is gorgeous!

I'm kind of disappointed in my Greenfire legbars. They are very sweet birds but the girls don't have crests at all, which I thought was a characteristic of the breed and my cockerel isn't nearly as handsome as others. I think he's also developing wry tail. They came with blue legbands from the 3/18 hatch. Keeping fingers crossed that their offspring is better --- with crests and I will look for eggs from crested hens this autumn.

Here is my boy.



And one of the girls

 

[ChicKat]

Chickat - your boy is gorgeous!

I'm kind of disappointed in my Greenfire legbars. They are very sweet birds but the girls don't have crests at all, which I thought was a characteristic of the breed and my cockerel isn't nearly as handsome as others. I think he's also developing wry tail. They came with blue legbands from the 3/18 hatch. Keeping fingers crossed that their offspring is better --- with crests and I will look for eggs from crested hens this autumn.

Here is my boy.



And one of the girls



Thank you Laingcroft,

Your cockerel is developing nicely--and age is a definite factor in the flashyness of the males!! I think you should package up your two and send them over here.... (kidding of course)--
I will bet in future, all of us who have creamlegbars will want to breed toward a standard like crests, while at the same time it is going to be important to keep genetic diversity in mind. If there is a charactistic of the starting birds that you have that differentiates them from other peoples legbars, then I think that there will be some demand to have those birds come into someones flock so that we don't have too much "linebreeding" and suffer from the associated problems.

It could be that the ones you have will be the ones that are laying the bluest eggs, or the most frequent eggs etc. So all of us who care about the breed should keep track of the traits, keep in touch with eachother (Like in this thread, I'm thinking) and down the road help eachother get the desireable traits in the breed. Now I need a google-moment to discover what wry tail is. :O0

 

[GaryDean26]

One of my girls doesn't have a crest either. I am planning to pair her with a cockerel that is very heavily crested (I got extra cockerels so I could be choosy). It will take me a few generation to breed the line to perfection, but I didn't expect instant results. I expected to work with it for 3-6 years to get to where I want the line to be.

 

[Flaming Chicken]

One of my girls doesn't have a crest either. I am planning to pair her with a cockerel that is very heavily crested (I got extra cockerels so I could be choosy). It will take me a few generation to breed the line to perfection, but I didn't expect instant results. I expected to work with it for 3-6 years to get to where I want the line to be.

All three of my girls have crests. One of my roos has a straight comb and a nice crest. One has a big floppy comb and one is really small still.