The Legbar Thread!

[1muttsfan]

I'll be showing a legbar at a show in Montana next weekend. Thought I had a single comb bird ready but she doesn't look as good as I'd hoped so it looks like a rose combed pullet will take her place since she has better color and type. I figure I'll take a copy of the working standard but need to figure out wording for the rose comb...
The show on the coast I will take a pair of single comb legbars

Good luck to you

 

[normanack]

I'll be showing a legbar at a show in Montana next weekend. Thought I had a single comb bird ready but she doesn't look as good as I'd hoped so it looks like a rose combed pullet will take her place since she has better color and type. I figure I'll take a copy of the working standard but need to figure out wording for the rose comb...
The show on the coast I will take a pair of single comb legbars

Please take pictures (or have them taken) of you and your birds at the show!

 

[lonnyandrinda]

I'll be showing a legbar at a show in Montana next weekend. Thought I had a single comb bird ready but she doesn't look as good as I'd hoped so it looks like a rose combed pullet will take her place since she has better color and type. I figure I'll take a copy of the working standard but need to figure out wording for the rose comb...
The show on the coast I will take a pair of single comb legbars

Good luck!

Please take pictures (or have them taken) of you and your birds at the show!

X2!!!

 

[dretd]

just out of curiosity, not being familiar with how standards are written,. at what age are the pullet and Cockrell weights to be measured?

I finally heard back from Fowlman01/Walt and here is what he had to say:

"At a show a very young bird will not do well as a pullet. It should LOOK almost mature and that would be anywhere between 5-11 months old. Usually in the females, when it starts laying. The weights are for mature looking pullets and cockerels, not super young birds that don't look mature yet."

So no fixed month, but they need to be laying and look older.

 

[Darkangael]

I am in New Mexico also but do not have chickens yet.

 

[1muttsfan]

I finally heard back from Fowlman01/Walt and here is what he had to say:

"At a show a very young bird will not do well as a pullet. It should LOOK almost mature and that would be anywhere between 5-11 months old. Usually in the females, when it starts laying. The weights are for mature looking pullets and cockerels, not super young birds that don't look mature yet."

So no fixed month, but they need to be laying and look older.

Thanks, that seems sensible.

 

[madamwlf]

I got some better pics of the CCL today and want to see what you think.

 

[KPenley]

Beautiful birds madamwlf! I am loving your rooster's coloring. Keep him with the lowest tail angled, long backed, straightest combed girls you breed and you will have show winners in no time flat. I would take the one hen with the black tips in her breast and sides out of the breeding pen.

 

[madamwlf]

She's actually not laying and I know her eggs when she does lay. They are green. I don't use her eggs for hatching at all.

 

[Brada Puhi]

Aloha kakou.

I started a new thread called White Sport Cream Legbars. If you have any experience with white sport cream legbars, please visit the thread and share any knowledge or advice that you may have.

Mahalo, Puhi