The Legbar Thread!

[GaryDean26]

I was just telling my friend at work that I need to make the nesting boxes since my Legbars are about 20 weeks old. When I got home from work and checked on them, I found a perfect little blue-green egg in the back corner of the run behind the waterer!!!

My first egg ever

! It is pretty close in color to OAC 178.

Since no one around here is into chickens, I just had to tell someone. Will make 2 nest boxes in the morning and try to figure out who was my first layer.

I put a nesting box out 2 weeks ago for my three (3) 22 week old girls. They have been playing in it, but not eggs yet. OAC 178 is a very good color. Make sure to give your pullets extra treats for all the hard work.

 

[FridayYet]

Congratulations!!

I put a nesting box out 2 weeks ago for my three (3) 22 week old girls. They have been playing in it, but not eggs yet. OAC 178 is a very good color. Make sure to give your pullets extra treats for all the hard work.

Yup, only chicken people understand how excited I am!!! Extra yellow-pear cherry tomatoes for all.

One of these...

gave me this...

 

[Laingcroft]

Not sure if it was this thread or the other one where I posted pics of my new baby boys from GFF. Here they are at six weeks old. Both developing crests and one really may be true cream.


Gold head boy.


Cream head boy.



Two boys with SFH clutch mates. Gold head boy on top, cream head boy below.

 

[KPenley]

Congrats on your beautiful little egg Friday!

And Tru, your cream boy is quite handsome, isn't he?

 

[lonnyandrinda]

Good pictures Tru showing the difference between the gold and the cream at an early age. They are cuties!!!

 

[Darkangael]

AH HA!!

Here is kind of something I am considering how it could be useful...and maybe this isn't possible. A spreadsheet...where different fields could be used to sort. (o.k. actually a database, but that isn't something most people have).

For example...I'm really happy with my flock but decide I would like to move toward eggs that are A1 on the egg color chart-- while I'm getting C15. Makes me think when it is time for a new rooster...I go to the table, sort by egg color...find the egg color codes, and lo and behold. Mr GaryDean26 has some stock with A1---so I try to get some hatching eggs or purchase a cockerel from his flock.

Or---from looking at pictures, I see that Ms Blackbirds13 has a color I really like (were all these people to put entries in this as yet imaginary place) - so I contact her for some hatching eggs.

And someone notices that my guy has a great comb--so they contact me for some spare cockerels.

Hmmmm I wonder. Kind of far fetched....but it is kind of the way I think I would work to improve my flock anyhow.

Every individual would enter their own flock data, of course. Wonder how long before it would break. (Before I retired, long, long, long ago, I used to work in the field of Information Technology..... So I know the underlying concepts.)

Too bad there isn't a person with a lot of technical expertise that is current...that would/could make it happen and say it is just a piece of cake to do.

If someone wants to put together a database its easy enough on Libre office I just don't have any experience with it and its a free office suite (donation only) so if you want can save some extra money to put towards chickens =).

DA

 

[CibolaChooks]

I have had folks here ask for pics of my phoenix x legbar pullets. They are from my clb cock on silver phoenix hens, I did this mainly for EE pullets to sell but saved a few to breed back to phoenix. The color of hackle in person is more of a lemon color, I thought cream at first but they are LF phoenix with clear colored males so I think this is a different diluter at play.

does she look cream in the shade. but lemony in the sun. I think this might be the other end of the cream scale. Silvery on one side and this color on the other side of cream right before the cut off line to gold.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Her hackle still looks bright in the shade, its strange. I thought cream but largefowl phoenix shouldnt carry cream so I am thinking lemon/citron is what caused this but not positive

 

[CibolaChooks]

Her hackle still looks bright in the shade, its strange. I thought cream but largefowl phoenix shouldnt carry cream so I am thinking lemon/citron is what caused this but not positive

im forgetting you need to copies for the recessive to come out.

 

[1muttsfan]

My first egg ever

! It is pretty close in color to OAC 178.

Since no one around here is into chickens, I just had to tell someone. Will make 2 nest boxes in the morning and try to figure out who was my first layer.

Yay for you! Love first eggs.