The Legbar Thread!

[KPenley]

Hoping to get a CL soon - All your pics of eggs and chicks are making me drool!

Have you joined the Cream Legbar Club yet? There just so happen to be some great breeders in your area

 

[FridayYet]

Well since I don't have any chickens yet, I haven't joined any clubs.

Thanks for the link, the website is great and if I can find a CL pullet or two, I'll definitely join. I'm hoping to find some CL, CL x CP olive eggers, and a Welsummer or two for some colorful eggs. Can't have roosters here, don't have a place to brood or quarrantine, so I'm hoping to get some young pullets - but finding them is a bit difficult. Won't be able to breed or hatch until we move, which probably won't be until I retire. DH agreed to a small laying flock so I'll start with that for now.

Feel free to PM me if you know of breeders in Southern California that might have what I'm looking for. I'm following this thread and the SOP thread to learn all that I can.

 

[australorp]

Hello, I have a question. I have read that the first generation cream legbars arent that nice "lighter roos" , but I have read that the first imported ones did lay well and had larger eggs. Wouldnt mixing all the legbars be a good thing???

 

[Triplell]

Longtime -no hear from - hopefully everything is going well.  Were these birds fire survivors?  I think you may have a lot going for you there---but hard to see well on this little screen.  Looks like a very nice comb and tail-angle on your rooster.  Looks like nice yellow on legs and beak too.  

Thanks, His legs are very yellow, I had to put some blue coat on his toes do to frost bite. Luckly these were not the ones in the fire. The two BA's that the two CL's were in the fire. Their feathers, legs, and faces were damaged from the extreme heat. Simon is so gentle with them that their feathers are growing in beautifully. I have been told that Simon and his girl have to much red in thier color so I looked up the Gold Legbars and they do look the same as mine. The hen has more gold in her hackles than the silver. Her is a better pic of her...

In this pic her tail is exetremly high, She never carries is that high normally. She has been laying since the end of Febuary and her egg size is still only a meduim but VERY blue.

 

[ChicKat]

so cool that you are getting a very blue. BRAVO.

 

[Triplell]

What do you think, are they the gold or the creams? Simon and his girl both have the crests.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Technically they would be Cream Legbars without the double dose of cream gene, as two cream genes are required to inhibit (hide) the gold base of a Cream Legbar. A gold legbar is an entirely different bird, and would not come from regular Cream Legbar matings. Some people are debating the proper name for this color variation as they like it a lot. Can't use gold legbar. dretd suggested on another thread maybe Ginger or Chestnut Legbar. Don't know.

 

[Triplell]

Okay I get it now. Mine were hatched out in October so not quit a year old yet. I am waiting to see what Simon looks like when he is a year old.

 

[1muttsfan]

Descriptively they are gold crested legbars instead of cream crested legbars - but may carry the cream gene. Gold Legbars are uncrested and lay a brown egg.

 

[CibolaChooks]

Question for you guys. I got a breeding pair of Legbars were imported from Greenfire. The hen just went through a molt and was off laying when I got her. She laid a beautiful robin's blue egg the next day much to my suprise and another blue egg a few days later. Since then she's laid a more muted blue/green egg. Do you think the restarting of her laying has gotten the color off a bit?

Here are the eggs for comparison

Second egg she produced: The nice blue!


Now her eggs are looking like this

mine have been changing colors. they have only been laying for a cpl months now but i got really nice sky blues for a month then out of no where a green like you got and now its been off and on blue to blue greens