The Legbar Thread!

[Dahlisgrams]

Quote: I agree. My oldest girl (golden hackle) lays a giant egg and i do mean so HUGE they just barely fit into the egg carton. My cream girl from the second line lays a bluer egg but smaller. Hers started off smaller but have gotten bigger but still not the size of girl one and that girl lays like a champ. My third and youngest, daughter of the oldest still lays a smaller egg. I think she will quit laying soon like the second girl did and then come back on line with a size change like happened with number 2. I get an egg from the oldest hen almost every day and almost non-stop. If I can get her offspring to lighten up colorwise but keep the egg production I'd be so happy. My three younger cream girls are over 20 weeks but...sadly not ready to come on line yet.
From what I've read they were not meant to be as much a production bird as much as a blue laying auto-sexing breed and 190 was a number i thought i saw as typical.
I'm interested in the Ayam Cemani and they lay about 80 a year so for me making the CLs more of an egg production bird is not a great focus but just hoping to maintain what I am getting. I'm happy with my numbers. I do not count yet, but with only 3 old enough to lay I am guaranteed at least 2 eggs daily with 3 quite frequently.
Interesting. My girls aren't laying yet, but I plan to keep good records. I think it will be useful for the future. Thanks for sharing this.

 

[normanack]

I agree about referencing being a challenge. I try to bookmark the posts that I know I'll want to see again but even that has become a mile long.. Having more than one thread makes it even more difficult. It might be helpful if we could compile the most relevent information into one source.. aka write a book.

I've been condensing one of the threads off and on for awhile, and another one of us has been doing so as well -- we need to get together.

At some point soon we'll have a Reader's Digest Condensed version which should be helpful.

 

[Dahlisgrams]

Quote: Thank you both. That would be wonderful. Please let me know if you need any assistance.

 

[ChicKat]

Or, maybe Melow was pretty close to being pure. Did you ever keep track of the number of eggs that she laid? And....she went broody too, didn't she? I'm not sure how Broodiness and molting should figure into the number of eggs equation. Having a hen raise the chicks...is so much better than them waiting in a box -- until it's time to go outdoors. The hen that went broody here was constantly teaching those chicks how to forage...seriously constantly.

hope someday you get another Cream Legbar to add to your flock.

 

[ChicKat]

I've been condensing one of the threads off and on for awhile, and another one of us has been doing so as well -- we need to get together.

At some point soon we'll have a Reader's Digest Condensed version which should be helpful.

So cool you two & also Dahlisgrams --- Oh how marvelous -- a book of the relevant things. Bravo.

 

[ChicKat]

blackbirds13,

That's so interesting. Come to think of it--- the production of a large shell, I have read, by necessity of the available resources to the chicken will have a slightly thinner shell than a small egg, and it almost seems like it will have to be a bit lighter...because of that article about the 'expense' to the birds system of producing the blue-egg pigment.

HEY!! you survived the blizzard. Yea..... Heard about 2-3 feet of snow and gusts to 70MP and drifts to 5-feet. That's some serious snow. Hope all is well for you up there.

 

[Johnn]

Or, maybe Melow was pretty close to being pure. Did you ever keep track of the number of eggs that she laid? And....she went broody too, didn't she? I'm not sure how Broodiness and molting should figure into the number of eggs equation. Having a hen raise the chicks...is so much better than them waiting in a box -- until it's time to go outdoors. The hen that went broody here was constantly teaching those chicks how to forage...seriously constantly.

hope someday you get another Cream Legbar to add to your flock.

Im going to buy CLB hatching eggs to put under my orpington when she goes broody again and Melow laid everyday apart form when she went broody, then after being broody she layed every day then after moulting she layed every other day and on some weeks everyday, then she was killed

 

[Dahlisgrams]

Quote: John, are you located in the US? I'm sorry.. I just cannot recall at the moment. Your Melow was a beautiful girl.

 

[Johnn]

John, are you located in the US? I'm sorry.. I just cannot recall at the moment. Your Melow was a beautiful girl.

Nope im in the UK and thankyou , i was quite shocked seeing the prices of CLB's in the UK considering some are given away fro free over here!

 

[ChicKat]

Nope im in the UK and thankyou , i was quite shocked seeing the prices of CLB's in the UK considering some are given away fro free over here!

Part of it is supply and demand. There is a greater supply on your side of the Atlantic. A lot of very interesting breeds in the UK that aren't in the USA.... have you ever heard of one called, I think, a Bluebell? Glad that you will be getting some hatching eggs. Chicks are the cutest things ever.